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{0Hidden Within Technology’s Empire, a Republic of Letters}100{科技帝国的背后——文坛0} {0When I was a boy “discovering literature”, I used to think how wonderful it would be if every other person on the street were familiar with Proust and Joyce or T. E. Lawrence or Pasternak and Kafka.}95{当我还是一个 “探索文学”的懵懂少年时，就常常想，要是大街上的每一个人都熟悉普鲁斯特和乔伊斯，劳伦斯或帕斯捷尔纳克和卡夫卡，那该多好啊！ 0} {0Later I learned how refractory to high culture the democratic masses were.}100{后来，我才明白，民众其实是多么排斥高雅文化啊。0} {0Lincoln as a young frontiersman read Plutarch, Shakespeare and the Bible.}100{林肯年轻还在边疆拓荒时，就阅读了希腊历史学家普卢塔克和莎士比亚的作品，还读过《圣经》。0} {0But then he was Lincoln.}100{可他还是林肯啊。 0} {0Later when I was traveling in the Midwest by car, bus and train, I regularly visited small-town libraries and found that readers in Keokuk, Iowa, or Benton Harbor, Mich., were checking out Proust and Joyce and even Svevo and Andrei Biely. D. H. Lawrence was also a favorite.}0{后来，每当我驾车、搭公交和乘火车到美国中西部旅游时，我都会按惯例光顾当地的小镇图书馆，结果发现爱荷华州基奥卡克市或密歇根州本顿港市的读者竟然借阅普鲁斯特、乔伊斯、甚至还有斯维沃或安德烈·别利等的作品。还有劳伦斯也是他们最喜爱的作家。0} {0And sometimes I remembered that God was willing to spare Sodom for the sake of 10 of the righteous.}100{有时，我还会想起，上帝之所以愿意赦免所多玛城，那是因为那里毕竟还能找出十个义人。0} {0Not that Keokuk was anything like wicked Sodom, or that Proust’s Charlus would have been tempted to settle in Benton Harbor, Mich. I seem to have had a persistent democratic desire to find evidences of high culture in the most unlikely places.}96{这并非说基奥卡克市就像邪恶的所多玛城，也不是说普鲁斯特书中的黑暗男爵夏吕斯乐而忘返地想定居密歇根州本顿港。我的愿望似乎很执着，但也很普通，那就是在最不可能出现的地方找到高雅文化的蛛丝马迹。0} {0For many decades now I have been a fiction writer, and from the first I was aware that mine was a questionable occupation.}100{迄今为止，我写小说也有几十年了；从一开始，我就知道写小说并不是一项可靠的职业。0} {0In the 1930’s an elderly neighbor in Chicago told me that he wrote fiction for the pulps.}98{20世纪30年代，在芝加哥，一位上了年纪的邻居跟我说，他曾给一家低俗杂志写过小说。0} {0“The people on the block wonder why I don’t go to a job, and I’m seen puttering around, trimming the bushes or painting a fence instead of working in a factory.}87{