| Eminent Domain/Antonya Nelson |
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The New Yorker, Jan 2004: Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain是一个法律术语，意为：The right of a government to appropriate private property for public use, usually with compensation to the owner. 中文译作征用权，即政府把私人财产充为公用的权利（通常对其拥有者有所补偿）。
Paolo碰到一个浪迹在街头的不良少女，他认出她是出逃的Sophie Gunn，她也认出了他。
Paolo没有把Sophie送回给她的父母。
Sophie要给Paolo提供性服务，Paolo拒绝了。他给她钱，送她去治疗，给她买烟。他也question自己，如果Sophie 不是如此漂亮的女孩，他是否会与其交往。Sophie病了，Paolo把她接到家里，让她安静入睡。他看着睡熟的她，几乎难以克制要和她发生性关系。他爱上了她。
最终，她因吸毒而住院，Paolo联系了她的父母。她又不辞而别。
再后来，Paolo听到了她结婚的消息。This girl had prevailed.
I have survived, she had concluded the tale -- the victor.
Antonya
Nelson is consistently praised for the beauty of her writing and for
her exploration of the emotional terrain of women. Nelson的优美文笔在
小说的第一段就显露出来：
What caught Paolo’s attention was the smile, teeth extravagantly white and large, orthodontically flawless. Expensive maintenance in the mouth of a homeless girl. Around the smile was a pale, animated face, and around that a corona of wild purple hair. The owner of this gleeful mouth was drunk, her flame of a head swaying on the thin stick of her body, lit at nine in the morning on the front stoop of a condemned Baptist church.
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