来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第11集 第11集》

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  It's funny.
  非常有趣
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  Barth's effort at showing us the exhaustion of narrative produces a
  巴斯竭力向我们展现这种叙述的枯竭
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  kind of new pleasure in narrative.
  其本身就为叙述带去了新的乐趣
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  So it's by pointing it out, and then parodying it, that he
  通过指出它 然后模仿它
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  begins to renew the resources of fiction.
  巴斯得以重塑小说的来源
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  There are deeper and more difficult issues at stake, though,
  但这也存在更深更艰难的问题
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  and this is in 155.
  在第155页
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  We get a more serious version of the scene with Magda and the problem of
  从中我们得对玛格达及自我异化情绪有了
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  self-alienation.
  更深刻的体会
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  And this is what is really at the heart of Menelaus's story.
  这也是梅内莱厄斯故事的真正核心所在
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  So, remember that the story is that he is obsessed with this question of
  记住 本故事的核心在于他不停纠结于
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  why Helen chose him among all her suitors: why did she choose him?
  为什么在所有追求者中 海伦选了他