Like most people, I find public speaking more frightening than spiders or the prospect of being mugged in a dark alley.

与大多数人一样，我发现公开演讲比蜘蛛或是在黑漆漆的小巷里遭劫的可能性更令人恐惧。

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It wasn't a bleak dark terror any more, just fact, like my broken leg and frostbitten fingers, and I couldn't be afraid of things like that.

死亡不再是无望的阴暗的恐惧，它只是一个事实，就像我的断腿、我冻僵的手指一样的事实。我不能害怕这样的事实。

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The shadows were naturally no longer as dark so I wanted to create a more ambient light “feel” to the photos.

所以我现在想拍一张更能体现环境光的照片。

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It was supposed to be about a two-minute walk, but in the unfamiliar dark I missed my house and continued on past more stilt houses.

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And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.

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Mr. JASPER: Definitely, and I ended up sort of writing about, you know, the underworld and the struggles of young men, so I was choosing, I guess, between the dark and white to be metaphorical because it was those young men, perhaps even more so than myself, who were going through the most difficult times around me.

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