The book opens with the young man, Francis Marion Tarwater, refusing to do the two things his grandfather had ordered him to do.

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The experience of having language speak through him and do things that he doesn't understand makes him want to acquire again that agency that he experienced when he took his father's words literally.

理查对自己所处的状态一无所知,说什么做什么都不明就里,这时的他渴望回到遵从父亲时期的状态,找回那种极富技巧的沟通方式。

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And indeed, he wrote something called a Battle Symphony, and you can just see him, how he's kind of marshalling particular forces to do particular things at particular times.

事实上,他写了一部《战争交响曲》,大家可以清楚地看到,他怎样集结一个个力量,运筹帷幄

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