He states the problem of living in the South as a problem of feeling, that he needed to claim and consider his own feelings.

关于在南方的生活,他将他当作一种感觉来描述，与此同时，他希望找回自己的感觉。

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Instead of trying to pursue those alternative theories in a systematic fashion, let me just gesture toward some of the things that seem to be missing from that kind of life.

我们不去系统地研究,那些理论，在此我要例举一些,那种生活似乎所缺少的东西。

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