From time to time I would spy a light on in an upstairs bedroom, sometimes the sound of voices raised - a baby crying, a couple squalling, a TV turned up loud.

时不时地我会发现屋舍楼上卧房的灯光，有时屋内发出声音——婴儿的哭声，夫妇相骂的声音，开大电视的声响。

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The shock and awe which I felt while reading entire sections of Blood Meridian fit entirely into the milieu of my home life with the arrival of our squalling, sleepless baby boy.

我读完《血色子午线》所感到的那种震撼和惊惧，完全适合于我对我们那号啕不眠的男婴来临后的家庭环境的感觉。

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An artist and a traveler, he should probably never have married at all certainly he should never have been left with a squalling newborn baby on his hands when my mother died.

NPR: Excerpt: The Sherwood Ring