So if the landscape invites him to grow as an imaginative person, the social world he lives in, this episode signals to us immediately, will never live up to that imagination.

假如生活氛围使他,成为一个充满想像力的人，那么他所处的社会就是这一时期，这会让我们马上感到，那种想象永不可能成真。

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