On his author Web site, John Irving describes how he begins his novels by writing the last sentence first.

约翰•欧文（John Irving）就在自己的网站上描绘，他总是先写出小说的最后一句话，才开始小说的开头部分。

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And a sense of human dignity is at the core of John Irving's writing.

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Irving John Good famously described the development of an ultraintelligent machine as the "last invention that man need ever make, " for after that, humanity would cede innovation and technological development to its smarter progeny.

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