We finished Black Boy last time, and one of the big questions coming out of my discussion of that autobiography is: how do you manage the question of context in reading a novel or an autobiography--in reading any text?

我们上次讲完了《黑孩子》,在关于那部自传的讨论中随之而来,的一个重要问题是：,当你在读小说、自传或者其他文本时,怎么处理上下文？

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We have to assume, though, in the context of a reading of this kind that it's a push toward a state in which the little yellow garage and the unnarratable junkyard are manifest as one and the same thing.

我们只能假设这种阅读的上下文,是在揭示一个状态，那就是黄色车库,和那个没有明说的垃圾场其实是一样东西。

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