This is quite presumptuous, and if writers are not allowed to be so — and quite often, in many places, they are not — I see no point in the writing of fiction.

这是很专横的，擅作主张。不过，假如作家们不允许这样做的话——在许多时候，许多地方，他们不允许这样做——我看不出写小说还有什么意义。

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When a person in a position of trust and responsibility lets people down, and particularly if the faltering is due to a deficit of character (the usual suspicion and assumption), the person is almost always disgraced and branded for life, without prospect of ever regaining a position of trust (if, that its, he were so presumptuous as to seek one, which he would not be).

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