If you read Walt Whitman, you will see much of the same ethos So, Ginsberg is not the first to do this in the American tradition, for sure, but it's a very important part of what the Beats revive.

如果你读过沃尔特惠特曼，你会发现类似的思潮,所以金斯堡肯定不是第一个在美国传统上这么做的，但它是使垮掉的一代复兴的重要部分。

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that I think was, for me, the first hurdle that I had to get over is that... you know, you're not special.

我认为那就是，对我来说，要跨越的第一个障碍就是……你不是特别的。

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