There is usually a price for pleasure so mindless. In the case of TV golf, it is listening to the commentators analyze the players’ swings. What looks to you like a single, continuous, and not difficult act is revealed, via slow motion and a sort of virtual-chalkboard graphics, to be a sequence of intricately measured adjustments of shoulder to hip, head to arm, elbow to wrist, and so on. Where you see fluidity, the experts see geometry; what to you is nature is machinery to them—parallel lines, extended planes, points of impact. They murder to examine. Yet, apparently, these minutes and individualized measurements make all the difference between being able reliably to land a golf ball in an area, three hundred yards away, the size of a bathmat and, say, randomly hitting a car, which, let’s face it, only a fool would drive right next to a golf course. There is a major disproportion, in other words, between the straightforwardness of the game and the fantastic precision required to play it, a disproportion mastered by a difficult but, to the ordinary observer, almost invisible technique.
Short stories are the same. A short story is not as restrictive as a sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. Its aim, as it was identified by the modern genre’s first theorist, Edgar Allan Poe, is to create “an effect”—by which Poe meant something almost physical, like a sensation or an extreme excitement.
第31题:The author quotes his own experience with golf to show that _____.
[A] things are often not so simple and easy as they seem
[B] his experience with golf has been a frustrating failure
[C] that experience of his offered much for his later life
[D] apparent truths are more often than not unreliable
[单选题]We [reckoned]there was only one man who is fit for the post.A.figuredB.beli
[单选题]Look at the terrible situation I am in! If only I _____your advice.A.hadfol
[单选题]Tom was the only one of the students who_____named Outstanding Student.A.is
[单选题]He is the only one of the students who_____finished the task in time.A.isB.
[单选题]7.I am the last one _________ .to school.A.getB.getsC.to getD.go
[问答题]()I am wondering who broke the window
[单选题]Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to g
[单选题]Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to g
[单选题]Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to g
[单选题]Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to g