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the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began.

會領悟到素材中很多東西是他剛動筆時所未意識到的。

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This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery,

這種有機的加工過程往往達到不尋常自我發現的境界，

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is of an indescribable fascination.

具有難以言表的構思魅力。

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A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone;

一個朦朧的形象出現在作家的腦海里，他左添一筆，右添一筆，形象反而消逝了；

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but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it.

可是，好像還有什么東西存在著，不把它捕捉到，作家是不會罷休的。

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Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written.

有時，一個作家一本書寫完了，但興奮仍不消散。

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I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books;

我聽說一些作家，除了自己的書外，別的書一概不讀，

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like adolescents they stand before the mirror,

猶如希臘神話中那位漂亮少年，

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and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them.

站在鏡前，不能辨認出自身的真面目。

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For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books,

由于這個原因，作家喋喋不休地談論自己的書，

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winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones,

挖掘其隱晦的含義，增添新的含義，

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begging response from those around them.

詢問周圍人的反應。

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Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood:

作家如此行事當然會被人誤解。

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he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair.

他還不如給人講一個犯罪案件或一個戀愛故事。

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He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore.

順便說一句，他也是個不可饒恕的令人厭煩的人。

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This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader,

這種企圖消除自己和讀者之間距離的作法，

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to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him,

企圖用不了解自己的人的觀點來研究自己塑造的形象的作法，

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can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please.

會導致作家的毀滅，因為他已經開始為取悅他人而寫作了。

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A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back

一兩年前，一位年輕的英國作家發表了中肯的看法。

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that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow.

他說，初稿是才華，以后各稿是藝術。

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For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, has no resting place,

也是由于這個原因，作家同任何藝術家一樣，找不到可休息的場所，

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no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort,

找不到伙伴和活動使自己得到安逸。

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no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within.

任何局外人的判斷也比不上他自己內心的正確判斷。

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A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart;

一旦作家從內心的紊亂中理出頭緒，

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he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of,

就應按任何評論家想像不到的無情規范約束自己去寫作；

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and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself,

當他沽名釣譽時，他就脫離了自我生活，

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from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.

脫離了對自己靈魂最深處世界的探索。

Lesson 40 Waves

Waves are the children of the struggle between ocean and atmosphere.

海浪是大海和空氣相斗的產物。

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the ongoing signatures of infinity.

無限的一種不間斷的標志。

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Rays from the sun excite and energize the atmosphere of the earth,

太陽光刺激了地球的大氣層，并給予它能量；