自从寄出上回的代祷信之后，我们见到和听到您们当中一些人的消息，在起程前我们非常高兴知道您们的近况，同时也希望能和更多人相聚。

Since we sent out our last newsletter we have met and heard from many of you. It was great catching up with you, and we hope to do more of that before we launch out!

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人所共信的东西都是虚假的，“艺术家”和社会是隔绝的：一般而言，这是迷惘一代的作家信奉的原则。

Things commonly believed in are false; the "artist" is isolated from the rest of society: these were, in general, adopted as axioms by the writers of the lost generation.

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