American author Peter Miller explains, "I used to think that individual ants knew where they were going, and what they were supposed to do when they got there."

美国作家彼得·米勒解释说：“我曾经认为每一只蚂蚁都知道它们要去哪里，以及它们到达那里后应该做什么。”

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He knew where I fitted in and what he had to do to get the best out of me.

他知道我在哪里能发挥作用，以及他怎样做才能发挥我的最佳水平。

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It's more a question of finding out what I need to do, where to go and so on.

更重要的是找到我需要做什么、去哪里等问题。

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And I take that to be the paragraph where he talks about what fiction has done for him specifically.

重申了,这种念头，“,绕了一圈。

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But in fact, I have to go there, and when going there, I have to reconceive of not just where I was, what I was doing, but in part who I am.

而事实上，我必须前进，并且当我在前进中，我不仅必须重新审视，我在哪里，在干什么，还要审视我是谁。

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Where I was and what I was doing are, of course, not important, but it helps me keep track.

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It is a promise to create a world that nothing else can and where I become what I can never be.

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Of course I was stealing internet from the literary agency where I worked, and what I was doing was finding other writers who were doing things along the same lines as I dreamed of doing.

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