The Power Writers' motto is: "If you don't learn how to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you."

VOA: special.2009.04.27

It was nice because it wasn't just, "Okay, Let's write a story" or "Let's do a research about the animal" or "Let's do a poem about fish".

说它出色，因为孩子们这样做，不是因为老师要求“,或布置的任务“,或学校强制。

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So you write the story of your life. It's nearly 400 pages long.

接近四百页长。

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And,Mister Stoker was not the first person to write a story about a vampire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

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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And then should it surprise us that that's the kind of person who would call a perfect stranger on the telephone and write a sexy story and give it to them? Right?

我们是否应该感到吃惊呢,正是这类人会为给一个陌生人打电话,并为对方写一个性感小故事？

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And she would intercept them as they came across the rickety bridge, or the low bridge, and she would ask them a few questions and ?" conclude with, "Can you write me a story? " You would help me out with my experiment if you'd just write a little story right now."

她会拦住他们,当他们分别横过摇晃的桥和低矮平稳的桥时，她会问一些问题,最后一个问题是“能为我写一个故事吗“,我将解决实验中遇到的瓶颈,如果你能立即给我写一个小故事“

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I think that's also why Barth chose to write this story in the perfect short story form. And that form is also given to us in Lost in the Funhouse, on page 95, when we get the diagram of Freitag's Triangle.

我认为这也是为什么巴斯选择用完美的短篇小说的,模式写这个故事的原因，这个模式在,《迷失在开心馆》里也有体现，在第95页，就是Freitag三角的图解。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选