I think that last sentence, "The secret is to find sustenance in

我认为最后一句"秘密是找到像霍桑
people like Hawthorne," gives us the answer that I'm content with.

这样的支持者"提供了令我满意的答案
And that is: yes, it's a withdrawal from life if you

就是是那是对生活的退缩
don't understand Hawthorne as a person, as someone with whom you can

如果你不理解霍桑这个人一个你可以
become entangled.

与之牵连的人
It's the very act of thinking of a literary forebear as a person rather

将一位文学前辈想作一个人而不是
than a text that allows this to be a productive state,

一个文本这样的举措颇有效率
one that Nathan will be drawn out of by Coleman, but yet one that the

一项内森会被科勒曼揪出但尚未
novel does not reject.

遭小说排斥的举措
It's when Coleman becomes for Nathan a character, the person becomes this

当科勒曼成为内森的一个角色时他
living representation, that he is drawn out of his

成了活生生的代表
solitude.

他从孤独中被揪出来