不幸的是这段时期却经常被当作浪漫主义文学的狂想曲，以至于我们很容易忘却它只不过是矛盾无聊的自然现象的真实。

Unfortunately this episode has been so often chosen as a subject for romantic literary rhapsodies that we are apt to forget the true if more prosaic nature of the conflict.

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存在主义哲学家齐克果写道：这种异常会导致一种难以忘却的“荒唐感”。齐克果并非是认真对待这类现象的唯一者。

The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote that such anomalies produced a profound "sensation of the absurd," and he wasn't the only one who took them seriously.

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