Karl Barth described midlife precisely this way.

卡尔·巴特正是这样描述中年生活的。

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Why does Barth put this in the front of his story?

为什么巴斯在书的第一页要放这个呢？

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I really liked the tricks that Barth played with vocabulary.

我非常喜欢巴斯用词的花招。

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This is Barth's effort to enclose the silence into something readable, to contain that impossibility in the structure of the story.

这是巴斯想把沉默嵌套到某些可阅读的的，在故事的结构中包含一些不可能的努力。

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So, Barth is taking a risk that this little craft project emphasizes and that the stories in the book act out.

所以，这个小小的手工作品强调了，书中的故事,展示了巴斯冒的风险。

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Self-alienation, in Barth's work, is the product of desire. Desire, love: that's the moment when you're supposed to be perfectly present.

巴斯作品中，自我疏离是欲望的产物，欲望，爱：,那是你应该在场的时刻。

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"They really have to understand their wiring in order to dial it down, " Ms. Barth says.

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"I don't want to be the one to mess that up, " says Barth, a 37-year company veteran.

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Selling efficiency provides a welcome alternative to Barth's largest line of business, which is making car seats and interiors.

FORBES: Control Freaks