If I were to rip these pieces of paper, I wouldn't be destroying the number two.

要是我把这些纸撕碎,数字2并没有被我给损毁了

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Like Isis, whom we saw piecing together the body of Osiris, or like the sad friends of Truth picking up the torn limbs of that beautiful virgin, we are left to cull out and sort asunder the confused seeds of good and evil.

像伊西斯，我们看到的拼凑欧西里斯身体的女人，或是真理的悲伤的朋友找寻被撕碎的美丽纯洁的真理的肢体,我们被留下来做出选择对错和,把善恶迷惑的种子分离出来。

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Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

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