So, this is Nabokov's beautiful evocation of how writer and reader meet at the summit of this misty mountain of the imagination.

那么，这就是纳博科夫的美好呼唤，是关于读者和作者,如何在想像的巅峰相遇。

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And my job as a writer is to stand in for you as a subsequent reader.

作为一名作者，我的职责,是站在你们读者的角度上考虑问题。

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If there is a balance of power between the writer and the reader in this little vignette, the power really I think finally resides with the writer.

如果作者和读者之间,存在力量平衡的话,我觉得最后力量肯定归于作者一方。

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And when you come to read it, what you're putting yourself in my position, as it were, and you are partaking of precisely the same activity as I "the first writer-reader" was.

而当你阅读时，换句话说，当你代替了我的角色时，你的阅读活动其实和我这个,第一个作者与读者的活动相同。

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What's the relationship between the writer and the reader?

作者和读者的关系是什么？

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