But-and this is a big failing in our literary education-our readers are a strange lot too: they can't accept a challenge, and tend to only choose things they can understand without any effort. The result is that in modern literature, people only write about things readers will understand-and all that modern readers want is titillation and chat.
但是，我們的讀者也很奇怪，也是我們的文學教育很糟糕的地方，讀者不能夠接受挑戰，傾向只選擇看得懂的東西，也使得現代文學只寫人們看得懂的東西，所謂「日知其所無」嘛！