Nothing better shows our heavenly origins, our divine seed, our human intellect, those holy traces of Promethean fire."

没有什么能更好的讲述我们的起源，我们的子孙，我们人类的智力，生命之火神圣的踪迹“

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In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.

换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。

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