She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

通过读书，除了找到自己我们别无所获。说来也怪，我们还是欣喜若狂，还把作者称为天才。

我们不应当如梦游一般地行事和言语。