He pauses, listening. FOOTSTEPS approach below, unhurried, echoing hollowly on stone.

他停了下来，倾听楼下那不慌不忙的脚步声在地上回荡。

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Now, on Monday you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation with the idea that art could be saving, that it could somehow be redemptive, but here I think is a hint that it's something that the novel simply laughs at hollowly.

星期一我们将会将到这部小说对,艺术已经被拯救，某种程度已经被救赎这个,观点的对质，但我想提示大家一下,那只是这部小说空洞嘲笑的观点。

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