We've got a story in which I'm thinking all sorts of thoughts; my mind clearly exists, and yet, for all that, my body does not exist.

在故事里,我正思考着,我的心灵显然是存在着的,但是,我的躯体却不存在了

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That also encouraged me to really write more and to really think about what is the story, how are people coming to this and like when I show my friends this, how are they going to react.

这也鼓励我编写更多东西,并且真正思考这个故事是什么，思考人们怎么想它,比如我向我的朋友展示的时候，他们会怎么反应。

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So what I want to do today is look closely first at the selections from Black Boy that I asked you to read and to look at those as a text and to ask ourselves what kind of story it is.

它们细微的差别,我先读部分《黑孩子》,先前我布置给大家去阅读,并思考几个问题,我发现了什么,故事是什么类型。

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