If you've got to torture somebody, I say in my nonethical mood,if you've got to torture somebody, do it to her.Don't do it to me.

如果你要找人折磨，我很没道德地说，如果你要折磨人，那就找她，别折磨我。

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I think it's in part that, suffering from lupus, she was very much confined to her house in Georgia, and the letter writing, this kind of correspondence, was certainly a way for her to keep in contact with the world of readers and other writers and friends.

我想这多少与她，受病痛的折磨有关，受制于病情，她只能呆在,乔治亚州的家里，足不出户，所以写信，必然是她和读者、,其他作家和朋友联系的方式。

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I'm going to be over here in Linda's body, horrified at what's been going on,horrified that she's being tortured, but at least it's not happening to me.

我在这边，在Linda的肉体里，对她将被折磨这点感到惊慌害怕，但起码不是发生在我身上。

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