1·Why does Barth put this in the front of his story?
为什么巴斯在书的第一页要放这个呢？
2·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。
3·The tool Mr Barth is employing to effect this transition is linear temporal logic, a system of mathematical logic that can express detailed constraints on the past and the future.
巴斯先生用来实现这一转化过程的工具是线性时序逻辑，一种可以表达过去和未来的详细约束的数理逻辑系统。
4·Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure — called "the Literature of Exhaustion."
在写完这一卷故事的前一年，巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》。
5·Ten years ago, Tyrion had read a fragment of Unnatural History that had eluded the Blessed Baelor, but he doubted that any of Barth's work had found its way across the narrow sea.
十年前，提利昂曾读到一片逃脱贝勒魔掌的《非自然史》的残片，但是他怀疑巴斯的著作是否有幸跨越狭海得意留存。