Farmers may want to put up electric fences to enclose grazing areas, called paddocks.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

This is Barth's effort to enclose the silence into something readable, to contain that impossibility in the structure of the story.

这是巴斯想把沉默嵌套到某些可阅读的的，在故事的结构中包含一些不可能的努力。

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