What exhausts language is the failure to keep technically up to

致使文思枯竭的主要原因在于
date, and that means in innovation in form.

没能从技巧上紧跟时代从形式上创新
"Menelaiad" is where Barth really stakes his claim for innovation.

巴斯在小说《梅尼雷斯》里提出了创新的重要性
Those nested layers of narrative that are so off-putting on

但嵌套性的叙述实在有些不得章法
the page that I have to send you a handout to help you

我必须事先发给你们提纲来帮助阅读
over the weekend. (Otherwise I worry that people will

才能完成不然我担心很多人都会感到
be really lost.) It's very off-putting, but it's precisely

相当迷茫但虽然杂乱恰恰是这些
those nested stories that allow him to do some of the really pleasurable

嵌套的故事使他能在下文中创造
things that he can do in that story and,

一些富有趣味的创作
I would say, get at some of the very deep questions raised by the earlier

并且最初的故事里的一些
stories that he finally, kind of, gets hold of (to use his

深层次的思考使他能够他的原话是
own words) in this last story.

把握好最后的故事