"But you stupid idiot!" shouted Mister Morehouse, madly shaking a thin book beneath the agent's nose.

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Greek novels usually were about a man and a woman, young,rich,who see each other and fall madly in love and passionately want one another.

希腊小说通常是关于男人与女人，年轻，富有，一见钟情,渴望对方。

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One way to put it, especially in nineteenth-century realism which particularly interests Brooks, is all these characters are just madly making bad object choices.

一种解释的方式，用19世纪现实主义的观点来看,也就是布鲁克斯感兴趣的观点来看，就是小说中的人物在疯狂地做着错误的决定。

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