It's about thinking what would make the right ending to this intellectual trajectory, this intellectual narrative that we're going to move through this term: what would make the right ending.

还要思考，这条知识轨迹在哪里终结才合适,连起这学期的知识性讲述,怎么才能恰到好处的结尾。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If you start thinking about narrative arcs-- imagine a novel, right?

如果你想想生命叙事线-,想象有一部小说？

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