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CHAPTER XXXVI
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Back to personal experiences and the effects in the past of John Barleycorn's White Logic1 on me. On my lovely ranch2 in the Valley of the Moon, brain-soaked with many months of alcohol, I am oppressed by the cosmic sadness that has always been the heritage of man. In vain do I ask myself why I should be sad. My nights are warm. My roof does not leak. I have food galore for all the caprices of appetite. Every creature comfort is mine. In my body are no aches nor pains. The good old flesh-machine is running smoothly3 on. Neither brain nor muscle is overworked. I have land, money, power, recognition from the world, a consciousness that I do my meed of good in serving others, a mate whom I love, children that are of my own fond flesh. I have done, and am doing, what a good citizen of the world should do. I have built houses, many houses, and tilled many a hundred acres. And as for trees, have I not planted a hundred thousand? Everywhere, from any window of my house, I can gaze forth4 upon these trees of my planting, standing5 valiantly6 erect8 and aspiring9 toward the sun.
My life has indeed fallen in pleasant places. Not a hundred men in a million have been so lucky as I. Yet, with all this vast good fortune, am I sad. And I am sad because John Barleycorn is with me. And John Barleycorn is with me because I was born in what future ages will call the dark ages before the ages of rational civilisation10. John Barleycorn is with me because in all the unwitting days of my youth John Barleycorn was accessible, calling to me and inviting11 me on every corner and on every street between the corners. The pseudo-civilisation into which I was born permitted everywhere
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logic
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n.逻辑(学);逻辑性 | |
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吸引,引诱(lure的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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toil
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接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语) | |
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v.战粟,震动,剧烈地摇晃;n.战粟,抖动 | |
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vt.谴责,指责;宣判(罪犯),判刑 | |
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domain
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v.渗入;灌输;输血 | |
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v.弥漫,遍布,散布;渗入,渗透 | |
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flicker
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vi./n.闪烁,摇曳,闪现 | |
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mirage
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n.海市蜃楼,幻景 | |
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n.海市蜃楼,幻景( mirage的名词复数 ) | |
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dissemination
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传播,宣传,传染(病毒) | |
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apparition
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apparitions
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permeating
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弥漫( permeate的现在分词 ); 遍布; 渗入; 渗透 | |
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pessimist
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shambles
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repulsive
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miserable
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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specimen
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chuckles
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obsessions
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deception
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gorilla
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