Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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And here it's all just tonic, just the basic primordial note upon which all these other tones are built.

在这里,最原始,最基本的音符,其它音符都基于基音而生

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