We feel as we process the world around us that we know things for and as what they are.

我们觉得我们认识的事物,都是事物真实的本质。

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I quoted the other day Wallace Stevens saying that poetry should "make the visible a little hard to see."

引用华莱士斯蒂文斯的话来说,诗歌应该模糊事物的本质“

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But we have not yet been able to find a claim,an interpretation, which is true,interesting,fairly special about death, as opposed to trivially true about everything, and giving us some relatively interesting insight into the nature of death.

但还是没有找到一种，真实，有趣并且是死亡独有的，相对于对所有事物的普遍事实来说，并且能给我们关于死亡本质有趣见地的诠释。

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Well, in any case the jar is just arbitrarily in the middle of that, organizing everything without participating in the nature of anything.

好，无论如何坛子只是被随意地放置在了自由游戏之中，组织一切，却不参与任何事物的本质。

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I look at something and I know what it is, forgetting that possibly I only know what it is because of a context in which indeed it is not those other things that are linked to it.

而我认知一样东西，很可能并不知道它的本质是什么,而是以它和其他事物的,关系来认知它。

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