British author and speaker Sir Kenneth Robinson talked about this at TED. He told the story of Gillian Lynne, a dancer and a choreographer (编舞者) who has worked on famous musicals like Cats and Phantom of the Opera (《歌剧魅影》) .

英国作家和演讲者肯尼斯·罗宾逊爵士在 TED 上谈到了这个。他讲述了吉莉安·林妮的故事。吉莉安·林妮是一个舞蹈演员和编舞，曾出演过著名的音乐剧《猫》和《歌剧魅影》。

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Who is the author of that novel? I've never read a more stirring story.

这部小说的作者是谁？我从没读过比这更扣人心弦的故事。

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Rajeev paused for a moment. “It seemed to be mostly about the author, about everything he accomplished,” he said slowly. “And that story is about quantity, about the number of schools built.

问题抛出去以后，拉杰夫犹豫了片刻，然后慢慢的说：“这本书的大部分内容好像是关于作者自己，以及他所完成的那些事业，那是一个记录了修建多少学校的故事。”

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The exhibit, an exhaustive, deep look at this decade of creative destruction, is set up like a narrative of the author's journey toward a new kind of art, and the story it tells is as absorbing as the works of art themselves.

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It takes a case of supreme arrogance to think that you can do better than the author of a book who spent a large chunk of his life writing and revising the story and go ahead and invent scenes and dialogue and alter events in the manner in which Peter Jackson has chosen to do.

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