He had the bedraggled hair and beard of a Reagan-era metalhead. He wore a black leather coat and an orange-and-red T-shirt covered in stretched-out figures from a Stone Age cave painting.

他发型凌乱，留着里根时代的胡须，身着褐色的皮子大衣，并且用一件橘红色的T恤包裹着石器时代才有的体型。

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"Starved and frozen," he wrote, "I huddled on the stone floor, making a sort of tent of my verminous coat, breathing into a sleeve to warm my body and made poems all day long."

在满是寄生虫的单衣‘帐篷’内，我靠呼吸取暖，灵感如潮水般涌来、写诗成为我的一切。

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He'd have loved to think the scratches on the stone were a coat of arms, because as far as he was concerned, having pure blood made you practically royal.

他肯定很想把那石头上的刮痕说成是纹章，因为对他来说，拥有纯血统就意味着身份高贵。

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To preserve them for more than a billion years to make fossils out of ephemera a site first has to coat its remains in a fixative: a thin layer of waterproof sediment that will slowly harden into stone.

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