This also explains why Ming describes this self-portrait "as a fiction on his own existence, a fiction that will one day come true".

这也就解释了严培明将这幅自画像描述成“一个关于他的存在的寓言故事，一个有一天将会成真的寓言故事”的原因。

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The self-portrait on this page was built by Ken Kremer and Marco Di Lorenzo.

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The resulting self-portrait has a depth that would not exist were this a collection only of images or only of words.

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Too bad that an editor did not excise the self-pitying self-portrait that unconvincingly brings to an end the strange undercurrents of this unusual family memoir.

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