momo超强版的笔记(7)

Looming

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies...

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She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recogn...

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What this seems to have nurtured in the young Karl was a high degree of self-absorption, a belief in his special destiny and a larger than normal sense of entitlement." 以前听周围的人批判耶鲁国大的...
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... Karl Marx ruefully acknowledged in 1868: here he was with 'half a century on my shoulders, and still a pauper. How right my mother was: "if only Karell had made capital instead of etc. 翻译成现...
第32页 the lawyer, the poet and the lover

there is no more lamentable being than a sickly scholar