This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。

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which I don't know if you guys are familiar with. It's like a rural state in the middle of America,

我不知道你们对那里熟不熟悉。
这是在美国中部的一个以乡村为主的州。

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