Yet at the same time, you probably thought "Oh, yeah, well, I did come out pretty much in the place I expected to come out in despite the roundabout way of having gotten there."

但同时，你可能会想“哦，也是，尽管比较曲折,但是我也比预想的收获了更多“

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The streets are all bendy,

道路都是曲折的，

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The circuitous, logical route that we had to take in order to arrive at this new sense of Satan's size has everything to do with our status as temporally bound, temporally constrained readers.

我们需要经历一个迂回曲折的逻辑过程,来从新的意义上理解撒旦的高大,和我们目前处在的，作为世俗压制下的读者的地位，有着紧密的联系。

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This is a poem about bending and breaking, forms, the material givens of the world.

这是个关于曲折和中断的诗，形式，这个世界给我们的原料。

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