With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When you hear a slaveholder preach about his individual liberty and his rights, you sometimes wonder, "Come on, where do you get off?"

当你听见一个奴隶主鼓吹,他的个人自由和他的个人权利时,你有时候会想,"拜托,你是怎么做的呢"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选