And I take that to be the paragraph where he talks about what fiction has done for him specifically.

重申了,这种念头，“,绕了一圈。

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Now, there's nothing special about annual-- that's the time it take the Earth to go around the sun, but it doesn't have any relevance to finance-- but we are just accustomed to using that.

这里所谓的一年也没什么特别,就是地球绕太阳一圈的时间,和金融没什么关系,我们只是习惯这么用

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