Walker Percy, a philosophical novelist, once properly described boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

哲学家兼小说家庞华格，曾贴切地形容无聊为「充满自我的自我」。

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Or as Walker Percy, the great Southern writer, was once asked he was asked, in effect, "Why do Southerners have such long memories?

或者正如沃克·泊西,这个伟大的南方作家,曾被问到,他被问到,老实说,"为什么南方人的记忆如此刻骨铭心

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It was the great novelist Walker Percy who warned of America's downfall, not at the hand of a great outside power, but from crumbling within.

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