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CHAPTER THE THIRD
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NIGHT AND THE OPEN SEA
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I have tried throughout all this story to tell things as they happened to me. In the beginning—the sheets are still here on the table, grimy and dogs-eared and old-looking—I said I wanted to tell myself and the world in which I found myself, and I have done my best. But whether I have succeeded I cannot imagine. All this writing is grey now and dead and trite1 and unmeaning to me; some of it I know by heart. I am the last person to judge it.
As I turn over the big pile of manuscript before me certain things become clearer to me, and particularly the immense inconsequences of my experiences. It is, I see now that I have it all before me, a story of activity and urgency and sterility2. I have called it Tono-Bungay, but I had far better have called it Waste. I have told of childless Marion, of my childless aunt, of Beatrice wasted and wasteful3 and futile4. What hope is there for a people whose women become fruitless? I think of all the energy I have given to vain things. I think of my industrious5 scheming with my uncle, of Crest6 Hill’s vast cessation, of his resonant7 strenuous8 career. Ten thousand men have envied him and wished to live as he lived. It is all one spectacle of forces running to waste, of people who use and do not replace, the story of a country hectic9 with a wasting aimless fever of trade and money-making and pleasure-seeking. And now I build destroyers!
Other people may see this country in other terms; this is how I have seen it. In some early chapter in this heap I compared all our present colour and abundance to October
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驳船( barge的名词复数 ) | |
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gentry
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northward
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wren
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n.鹪鹩;英国皇家海军女子服务队成员 | |
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tumult
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irrelevantly
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irrelevant
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blues
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dwarfed
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lighters
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feudal
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provincially
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confirmation
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