直到现在我也一直有写无论什么国籍或是人种的人们都能欣赏的曲子的意向，所以在这么长时间之后已经像这样渗透（到其他国家）了，这让我很开心，几乎会哭出来。

Until now I've always had the intention of writing music that people can enjoy regardless of nationality or race, so for it to have penetrated like this after so long makes me so happy I could cry.

youdao

不是很长，我是在刚刚结束第四部小说之后写这两本书的，所以与或许你们都觉得很长很长的第四部比起来，它们根本没用掉我多少时间。

Not a very long time; I wrote them right after I'd finished book 4, so compared to book 4, which as you probably know is a very, very long book, they didn't take long at all.

youdao

Sometimes it was spiritualized. In this sense, this is why I put this quote up on the board from On the Road: "We've got to go someplace, find something."

有时候这是精神化的，从这个意义上去理解，所以我把《在路上》里的这句话写在黑板上：,我们必须去到某个地方，发现某些东西“

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