We live in a world where the past is always present, and the present is always haunted by the past.
我们生活在一个过去总是存在,现在总是被过去困扰的世界。
Then I had religion, then I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black, cutting through the forest with a golden track。
文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。