To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

对他来说，人是一种拥有生命感觉存，是一种复形生物，其自身承载着奇异思想激情遗产，其肉体被死者可怕疾病所污染。