How do we put ourselves in touch with the text which may after all in a variety of ways be remote from us?

文本在各种方面距离我们如此遥远,如何与之发生联系？

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Gore's favorite was her description of an elegant family dinner table in Mississippi with much lace and candles and crystal and the elderly matriarch -- bedecked in rich brocade and a jeweled tiara -- making her way unsteadily to the table after a touch or two of bourbon and Seconal upstairs.

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Even if you blow the interview, it pays to get in touch after the fact.

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As you will read, Breyer seemed to have lost his touch after the dot-com crash.

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