But he was not afraid of it. He said: "Our separation from the old Union is complete.

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There is very little separation, even if there is a sense that the sky is impinging on the earth and not the other way around.

即便是有一种，天地相接的感觉,而不是其他的。

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If there's something worse about story number two, and I think it's pretty clear there is something worse, it's not the separation.

第二个故事又有什么更坏的地方呢，显而易见是有更坏的地方，不是分离本身。

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