So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

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Well I stated it, but Plato didn't state it in the dialogue, the worry that even if the soul was one of the parts even if the soul is already around before we were born, how do we know it can't come apart.

我说出来了，但柏拉图在对话里并没有说，就是一种担心,即使灵魂是组成我们的一部分,即使灵魂在我们出生前,就已经存在了，我们怎么能知道它不会瓦解呢。

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