经典名人英语演讲稿59：肩负起作为一名作家的责任（威廉.福克纳诺贝尔文学奖演讲词）mp3

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[00:04.22]59. Shoulder the Responsibility of Being a Writer
[00:08.99]Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. 
[00:19.71]There are no longer problems of the spirit. 
[00:22.62]There is only the question: 
[00:24.58]When will I be blown up? 
[00:27.90]Because of this, the young man or women writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself 
[00:35.59]which alone can make good writing 
[00:38.15]because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. 
[00:42.74]He must learn them again. 
[00:46.87]He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; 
[00:51.59]and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, 
[00:57.80]leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, 
[01:00.78]the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed――
[01:08.27]love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. 
[01:13.91]Until he does so, he labors under a curse. 
[01:18.17]He writes not of love but of lust, 
[01:21.50]of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, 
[01:25.50]of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. 
[01:32.10]His grieves grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. 
[01:39.70]He writes the glands. 
[01:41.29]Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. 
[01:48.94]I decline to accept the end of man. 
[01:52.50]It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: 
[01:58.93]that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, 
[02:09.90]that even then there will still be one more sound: 
[02:14.44]that of his puny inexhaustible voicesti11 talking. 
[02:19.13]I refuse to accept this. 
[02:21.65]I believe that man will not merely endure: 
[02:25.94]he will prevail. 
[02:26.91]He is immortal, not because he has a soul, 
[02:30.88]a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. 
[02:36.34]The poet, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. 
[02:41.95]It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, 
[02:50.80]by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice 
[02:56.28]which have been the glory of his past. 
[02:58.60]The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, 
[03:02.73]it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

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经典名人英语演讲稿59：肩负起作为一名作家的责任（威廉.福克纳诺贝尔文学奖演讲词）mp3