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In a recent class I was asked “What is a short story?” My first answer was that it was something that could be read in one sitting and brought an illumination（启示）to the reader, sudden and golden like sunlight cracking through heavy cloud. I went on to say that in my opinion a “real” short story was closer to poetry than to the novel. Here are some definitions of the short story. My favorite is Benet's: “something that can be read in an hour and remembered for a lifetime”。 One writer said: “the theme of a novel won't fit into the framework of a short story; it's like try水是人类生存不可缺少的物质，图7中不能正确描述水的各物理量之间关系的图像是