talked about the mobius strip, is that it's repetition.

记叙文的主要问题在于它是一种反复
This suggests a kind of exhaustion of language

这在某种程度上体现了语言的穷尽
and Ambrose's use of these packaged phrases

在"迷失在欢乐屋"中
in Lost in the Funhouse suggests the

安伯罗斯所运用的大量惯用语体现了
impossibility of using all that tradition,

传统和惯用语不可能完全表现出
all that stock of language, to adequately encounter what daily

日常生活所带给我们的一切意义
especially to adequately inhabit something like desire.

尤其是例如内心的欲望
Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out

自60年代起巴斯共花了5年左右
all in one volume.

来完成这些故事
They had been written over a series of years, about five

完成后巴斯曾写过一篇
years, in the '60s.

著名的文章
And he wrote a very famous essay-- got a lot of exposure--

这篇文章非常出名多次被刊载