When asked to write something for the book on Texas' death row, he chose not to write about himself, but about a fellow inmate who took his own life.

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I wanted to tell you about early because I'm going to ask you to do something for three days and then write about that.

我提早通知大家是因为,我会让你们用三天的时间来做这个

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This might be 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000 or something like that; don't write down the numbers I'm just using that for illustration.

是大约是一比一千亿那么少,不用记这个数字,我只是打个比方而已

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Milton's own faculty of memory - this is the idea that I'm going to be floating here - seems to provide something like, or pose a stumbling block or an obstacle for, his attempt to write an original, divinely inspired poem.

在这里我想说,弥尔顿自己的记忆系统,似乎想提供某种东西，或者想在他写出一部原创的，伟大的诗作的尝试上设置一个障碍。

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