And he says of his own writing, "I had tried to convey something of what it felt like to be a Negro, and no one had been able to listen.

作者自己也这小说里写道：“我曾试着去和身边人,传达那种我想成为黑人的强烈感觉，但没人能听进去。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This structure -- and this is something that's important for Milton to convey to us -- is genuinely beautiful. It's not entirely clear that Milton wants us to think of Pandemonium as unambiguously evil.

这个结构是弥尔顿认为应该传达给我们的,很重要的事，它实在是很美，尚不清楚弥尔顿,是否想让我们决得这地狱是绝对的邪恶。

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