Contrast this book, Prufrock and Other Observations, the subtitle left off here of the cover of T.S. Eliot's great book, published in 1917. This is a different object, isn't it?

把这本《普鲁弗洛克的情诗》和其他的《观察》相比，注意艾略特这本史诗般的书上方的这个副标题，这是在1917年出版的，这是一个截然不同的主题，不是吗？

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The object of this book is food, but the subject really is my relationship with my mother.

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The owner of a copyrighted object (a book, for example) controls that new product before it is first distributed (to a consumer, bookstore, library, Amazon etc.).

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The book became a cult object.

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