“名声”如同是蒸气,“声望”如同是意外,在地球上唯一可以确定的事情是被遗忘掉。
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.