For The Moviegoer’s Binx Bolling, history seems at times to be nothing more than the ‘adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle’. At others, personal histories seem to shape people's constitutions. Bolling has abandoned his ‘vertical search’ of combing through history to find meaning in favour of a ‘horizontal search’ that treats such endeavours as ancillary. At the same time he only understands others by seeing them as the product of their historical dialectics. This complex use of history as both a vehicle of understanding and a veil that confuses more than it clarifies serves as one of the principal sources of Bolling's stasis throughout the novel.

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过去夏天的垃圾：电影观众的历史哲学

对于 The Moviegoer 的 Binx Bolling 来说，历史有时似乎只不过是“像花生变脆一样堵塞时间的事件的掺假”。在其他情况下，个人历史似乎塑造了人们的体质。博林已经放弃了他通过梳理历史来寻找意义的“纵向搜索”，转而采用“横向搜索”，将此类努力视为辅助。同时，他也只能通过将他人视为历史辩证法的产物来理解他人。这种将历史作为理解工具和面纱的复杂用途，既是混淆多于澄清的面纱，也是博林在整部小说中停滞不前的主要来源之一。