Physical objects are a kind of illusion, perhaps, that we fall into.

物理对象只是一种幻觉,我们深陷这种幻觉之中

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So, it's motivated by a huge blindness about the racial history of the United States in any of its detail. That sense of the oneness, I think, points to why and how he makes that illusion, the oneness.

所以这是由对美国种族历史,及其细节部分的极大无知所推动的，这样的一种同一性，我想表明了他为什么及怎样产生了那一幻觉，那种同一性。

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