We have this clever illusion that the world is a knowable place.

我们有这种聪明的幻觉，就是世界是个可认知的地方。

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But in spite of the dictum of some philosophers man does not accept any arbitrary and absolute limit to his knowable world.

但是尽管某些哲学家有过权威性的断言，人类对于他的可知世界还是无以接受任何专断和绝对的极限。

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Well, "Home Burial" is a poem about the limits of work, the inability of the worker to bring a knowable world, a safe world, into being.

家冢“是他创作的极限之作，一个无能的工人让一个可知的世界，一个安全的世界存在。

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