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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that after Lolita.) But what I mean is that the reader must know when and where to contribute his imagination, and this he does by trying to get clear the specific world the author places at his disposal.

有些人可能就会那样想）,但我的意思是,读者必须知道何时何地需要发挥想像力,这样以看清作者所设置的特定的世界,在这篇小品文中。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It makes its readers work.

它需要读者去花精力。

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One of the labors of reading Paradise Lost is the reader's obligation to supply the analog for the X, and this poem is filled with such X's.

读的一个麻烦就是,读者需要自行类比出X究竟是什么，偏偏诗中又充满了这种不确定物。

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