即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者，所以我们会问，“作者是谁？”

That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

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牡丹不想把别人想得太坏，但问清楚缘由总是好的。

The peony doesn't want to Muse additional people too bad, but ask clear cause all okay.

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In a way, there's a subset of questions that arises from those, to the effect that this is, of course, what we'll be taking up next time: the question "What is an author?"

从这些大问题中又会产生一些小问题，这些问题也将是我们以后会讨论的：,关于文学的缘由，我们接着又会问，“作者是谁？“

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