So, so far the American landscape is already a work of art, already part of a European memory. Then something else happens: "But gradually the models of those elementary rusticities became stranger and stranger to the eye, the nearer I came to know them.

至此关于美国景色的回忆已经是一件艺术品了，已经包含一部分欧洲记忆，之后发生了一些事：,然而渐渐地，我越熟悉那些田园风光的基本模式,越看它们越觉得陌生。

1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课