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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  [Who is this "I"?],
  ["我"又是谁]
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  I, in Proteus's terrifying last disguise,
  我带着普罗特斯最后的伪装
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  Beauty" spouse"s,
  协同美的伴侣
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  odd Elysium: the absurd,
  游走在这荒谬的
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  unending possibility of love.
  充满无尽可能的爱的极乐世界"
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  If you think that Barth in all his heady, intellectual,
  如果你们认为巴斯的强烈的 学术的
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  canonical difficulty is
  权威的问题在于
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  uninterested in the world outside of his fiction,
  他对除自己小说外的一切不感兴趣
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  I think you could argue that it's on this notion of desire that he stakes
  那么你们或许也会同意正是这种欲望
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  his work's connection to the world.
  将他的作品与外部世界相联系
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  And the echo of that desire is, I would say, pleasure: something
  而重复这种欲望本身我认为就是种愉悦
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  like, in this case, Nabokov's aesthetic bliss,
  就像是纳博科夫的美学的狂喜