You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.

有阉割，切除繁殖能力的，的形象，诗人的所有能力，所有能居于世上的力量都可以被剥夺，就是这样。

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One of those sins, I think, that needs to be purged is clearly the sin of eagerness or over-anticipation, the drive to move ahead of oneself and the drive to get ahead of others .

我认为有一种罪孽需要净化，显然是欲望的罪孽,或过度预言的罪孽，想要超越自己,超越其他人,正如我们看到弥尔顿与术士们的竞争。

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