It takes centuries for water dripping through the rock to make these beautiful formations.

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He represents them as overheated attempts at literature, as dripping with a kind of excess, romantic excess, as essentially unable to do more than repeat a tradition.

他将这些炙热的情感放到文学里，流露出过度的浪漫，重复传统，无法超越。

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