And so Richard is learning a grammar of race even while he tries to work out how to use language as a source of power in his family.

所以理查在学习语言的艺术,虽局限于种族,就是他在家里受尽磨难时也在学习语言的魔力。

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You could use language to describe music, talk about the--a musical language or art, or any communicative system, and there's actually nothing wrong with that.

也可用来描述音乐,即音乐语言,或是去描述艺术,或任何的交流系统,都是没问题的

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Zooey That thread of the mystical quality of language at its extreme of literary power is what I drew out of Franny and Zooey.

我所描述的Franny和,正是那种语言的神秘色彩，处于它极端的艺术感染力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选