Hanging onto dead stuff has a higher psychic cost than most of us realize.

抓住死去的东西不放会比我们所能意识到的耗费更高的精神代价。

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Hanging onto dead stuff has a higher psychic cost than most of us realize; in time, dead stuff does what trash and dead things do - it stinks.

抓住死去的东西不放会比我们所能意识到的耗费更高的精神代价。适时，死去的事物做了废物和死去的东西一样的事——它令人厌恶。

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If an afterlife existed, Mandy figured that for Linda it would be more of the same-cappuccinos, Chinese, films at Lincoln Center. You could do that stuff dead.

如果有来生，曼迪想琳达应该会过同样的生活——卡布·奇诺，中文，林肯中心的电影，你都可以做这些到死。

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He scooped the dead stuff out of the pool with a net while he sold a guy in Dublin an insurance policy, or something.

NEWYORKER: Bullfighting

And the way the skinny neck disappeared between the animal's breastplate and shell-a squirming, live thing slipping hidden into dead stony stuff-it seemed suddenly like the Mystery of Mysteries, the very source of Life .

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You could do that stuff dead.

NEWYORKER: Deniers