来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说第12集第12集》

everything has always already been said,

每件事总是已经被宣布过
there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases,

再没有新鲜事满世界都是股票用语
how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

你怎样用它们去表达对你来说很新奇的经历
How do those stock phrases alienate you from the very experience

这些股票用语怎么就能使你远离那些
you hope that they can describe?

你希望股票用语能描述出的特殊经历
He thinks that following out desire can renew language,

他认为满足欲望能够复兴语言
and Menelaiad, I think, is his attempt at doing that.

我认为《迷失在开心馆》就是他的一次尝试
So, now we arrive at that tension,

现在讲的关键点上
and I want to suggest that Barth was

我认为巴斯
still dreaming of a pretty autonomous version of the literary art,

仍然梦想着能创造出相当自主的文学艺术版本
even though in his 1987 preface to Lost in the Funhouse--

即使在1987年《迷失在开心馆》序当中