What should be established I think is an artistic, harmonious balance between the reader's mind and the author's mind.

我觉得需要建立一种能艺术地协调，读者和作者思想之间的平衡,我们要保持些许冷漠。

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I think of it as a kind of reply to that famous question in "Leda and the Swan"; that is, "did she put on his knowledge with his power before the indifferent beak could let her drop?"

这是对丽达和天鹅中那个,著名问题的回答，在那冷漠的嘴把她放下之前,她是否用她的力量获取了他的知识？

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