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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So if we want belief in a soul to help us leave open the door to the possibility that I survive the destruction of my body, it had better not be that the body is an essential part of me.

因此如果我们相信灵魂,可以帮助我们在幸免一死的,问题上打开一扇窗,那么必须是肉体不是我的重要组成部分

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