The experience of having language speak through him and do things that he doesn't understand makes him want to acquire again that agency that he experienced when he took his father's words literally.

理查对自己所处的状态一无所知,说什么做什么都不明就里,这时的他渴望回到遵从父亲时期的状态,找回那种极富技巧的沟通方式。

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