In the glaring night-hours, when his brain seemed ablaze, he was visited by a sense of his fixed identity, of his irreducible, inexpugnable selfness, keener, more insidious, more unescapable, than any sensation he had ever known.

在刺眼夜晚，当大脑似乎在燃烧，一固定身份感，一简化、无辩驳自我感所拜访，这感觉比所知道任何感觉都更敏锐、更阴险、更无法逃避。