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Tropic of Capricorn 29
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Because Herr Nagel was the unacknowledged saint which every artist is - the man who is ridiculed1 because his solutions, which are truly profound, seem too simple for the world. No manwantsto be an artist - he is driven to it because the world refuses to recognize his proper leadership. Work meant nothing to me, because the real work to be done was being evaded2. People regarded me as lazy and shiftless, but on the contrary I was an exceedingly active individual. Even if it was just hunting for a piece of tail, that was something, and well worth while, especially if compared to other forms of activity -such as making buttons or turning screws, or even removing appendixes. And why did people listen to me so readily when I applied3 for a job? Why did they find me entertaining? For the reason, no doubt, that I had always spent my time profitably. I brought them gifts - from my hours at the public library, from my idle ramblings through the streets, from my intimate experiences with women, from my afternoons at the burlesque4, from my visits to the museum and the art galleries. Had I been a dud, just a poor honest bugger who wanted to work his balls off for so much a week, they wouldn't have offered me the jobs they did, nor would they have handed me cigars or taken me to lunch or loaned me money as they frequently did. I must have had something to offer which perhaps unknowingly they prized beyond horsepower or technical ability. I didn't know myself what it was, because I had neither pride, nor vanity, nor envy. About the big issues I was dear, but confronted by the petty details of life I was bewildered. I had to witness this same bewilderment on a colossal5 scale before I could grasp what it was all about Ordinary men are often quicker in sizing up the practical situation: their ego6 is commensurate with the demands made upon it: the world is not very different from what they imagine it to be. But a man who is completely out of step with the rest of the world is either suffering from a colossal inflation of his ego or else the ego is so submerged as to be practically non-existent. Herr Nagel had to dive off the deep end in search of his true ego; his existence was a mystery, to himself and to every one else. I couldn't afford to leave things hanging in
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ridiculed
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| v.嘲笑,嘲弄,奚落( ridicule的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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vitality
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cosmos
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immortality
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catastrophe
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trifling
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dormant
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sleeper
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futility
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postponement
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artistic
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concession
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killers
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expiate
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precipice
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frenzy
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| n.(昆虫)等一大群;vi.成群飞舞;蜂拥而入 | |
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detonations
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milky
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fowl
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synthetic
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demonstrations
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demonstration
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monstrous
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supremely
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insomnia
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archaic
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savages
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| 未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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savage
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degenerate
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oar
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specimens
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swarming
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inexplicable
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tribulations
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civilized
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| (通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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purged
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annihilating
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dealing
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entails
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defiance
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| (六角)转台( turret的名词复数 ); (战舰和坦克等上的)转动炮塔; (摄影机等上的)镜头转台; (旧时攻城用的)塔车 | |
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