voice very specifically: it's like no other.

非常特别与众不同
So, Salinger imagines that the literary art imitates that kind of

所以塞林格想象着文学艺术模仿那种声音
voice, and in that way it is a sacred practice, a sacred art.

那样它就是神圣的尝试神圣的艺术
Barth rejects the idea

巴斯反对
that language is an unmediated form of access to the real:

语言是通向真实世界的无中介形态的说法
absolutely impossible for Barth to countenance that idea.

对巴斯来说他完全不可能赞同那种说法
He sees life as continually, always already mediated by language.

他认为语言在总是不断地从语言中介得出
Now, I should say, as someone from the class

现在我应该说正如你们班的某个同学
who came up to me after lecture and asked me about this,

课后问我的问题一样
that Barth's understanding of language as preceding human understanding,

巴斯认为语先于人类的理解力
preceding any sense of ourselves,

先于我们的任何感觉
in a sense always slipping out of our control,

它不在我们的掌控之中