stylistic difficulty, is the effort to put on the page

是如何尽可能将脑中所想的东西记录到纸上
what happens in the mind, that sense of the mind drifting from

但思想的东西是飘浮不定的常从这个跳到另一个
one idea to another that you get in Virginia Woolf's prose,

这点在佛吉尼亚沃尔夫的散文中
so magically in Woolf's prose.

写得淋漓尽致你完全可以体会到
So, that is something these writers share with modernism,

这些就是作家们与现代主义共同分享的东西
but there is one big difference and I want to exemplify that for you

但两者仍存着极大的差异我将举一个例子说明
just by reading to you two parallel texts,

我会阅读两段类似的文本
one from the modernist canon and one from the Beat canon.

一个是现代主义的标准版本另一来自垮掉一代的版本
So, first I want to read to you the footnote to T.S. Eliot's

首先我将阅读
The Wasteland.

TS艾略特的《荒原》的脚注
Now The Wasteland was the first poem to have footnotes,

《荒原》是第一首有脚注的诗歌
and you have to ask yourself: what do you have to think the poem

你们要问问自己