I said good night. I went up to my room and looked out the window.

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But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

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So naturally he looks out the window to see how the time is going and this is what he says: Come, seeling Night,Skarfe up the tender Eye of pitiful DayAnd with thy bloodie and invisible HandCancel and teare to pieces that great BondThat keeps me pale!

所以自然地他看向窗外的天色,他说道：,快来吧，黑夜，遮住白天的眼睛，…,用你无形的沾满鲜血的双手,将束缚我们的身体撕成碎片！

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