Writing linear books simply requires a skill that all good authors already possess: the ability to keep readers immersed in the plot.

写一本能良好线性阅读的书能使读者完全沉浸在故事情节中，而这也正是所有好的作者具备的技能。

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One of these, Linear b, was famously deciphered in 1952, making it Europe's earliest readable writing (see "the great decipherments").

其中的线形文字b，已于1952成功破译，成为欧洲最早的可读文字(参见“历史上重要的破译文字”)。

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Reading is nomore linear than thinking is, (or I eventually discovered, than writing; few writersstart at the beginning — indeed, they usually “write the first part last.”

相比于思考（我后来发现写作也一样，很少作家是从最前面开始写的，甚至他们常常从第一部分的最后开始写起），阅读并不具有更多的线性。

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We know that the Mycenaeans, or at least some small number of them could write, because we have the Linear B script, which we can read. There is no clue that there is such a thing as writing in the Homeric poems.

我们知道迈锡尼人中,至少小部分,是会写作的,因为我们找到了B类线形文字的遗稿,我们能够解读,但在荷马史诗中,却并没有任何线索表明写作这一点

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