Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.

奇怪的是，在差不多两年半并完成了两部小说之后，我所亲历的美国人称之为“减低生活速度”的实验已将我厌倦的借口变成了纯粹的现实。

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Whatever demons first drove him, he had turned to an extreme ideology that expressed the kind of absolute certainty that can feel comforting in the short-term but that destroys all understanding in the long-term.

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