I think it's the imminence of their fallen-ness that lends this image its incredibly powerful emotional intensity and also, I think, its beauty.

这是它们即将堕落的迫切性,使这幅图像有了无穷的情感强度,和无边的美感。

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Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

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