Without any subtleties1 he perceived that the past could bind2 him only in so far as he allowed it to do so. It was not his father who proposed him for fellowship in[253] the community of men and women, nor could his father withhold3 that fellowship from him.
Nor his mother, nor anything that they had done or left undone4. With the birth of every mortal a new and clean page is turned in human history.
Every man writes his own page. What had he written? And he was getting out of middle age. There was not so much more time left to write. Not so much space.
He would go home to her whom he should never have left; to her whose page opened facing his; to her, the mother of his children, whom he had left to teach them, unaided by him, how to write on the clean, white page.
Together they would work out something better than themselves. What is written, lives on. What they wrote would stand as a record, for better or worse, after they were through inscribing5 it. The thing was—it must be done together.
He wandered about Edinburgh for a week and then shipped for New York from Liverpool. This was in early winter.
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1 subtleties | |
细微( subtlety的名词复数 ); 精细; 巧妙; 细微的差别等 | |
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2 bind | |
vt.捆,包扎;装订;约束;使凝固;vi.变硬 | |
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v.拒绝,不给;使停止,阻挡 | |
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a.未做完的,未完成的 | |
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5 inscribing | |
v.写,刻( inscribe的现在分词 ) | |
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