Embedded within the explicit plot of the simile is a secret, a kind of buried narrative, and it's a hidden story that illustrates Satan's self-destruction.

深藏在这个比喻精巧的情节布局里的，是一个秘密，一个被深埋已久的故事，一个隐藏着的，阐述了撒旦自我毁灭的故事。

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Notice the freedom that he exercises in unfolding what feels like an improvisatory monologue in which he makes you race to keep up with him as he follows a semi-hidden logic that he treats as self-evident.

注意他随意地展开,一段即席的独白,让所有人都跟随他的脚步,而他跟随着自己若隐若现的但自认为显而易见的逻辑。

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