I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

-- Neil Strauss 尼尔·施特劳斯

我开始用天启的眼光看世界。我们的社会似乎是由混凝土和习俗建造而成的，它只是一个临时的休息场所，是我们的文明在几百年前入住的酒店，总有一天会退房。

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

婚姻使人与风俗和传统产生了致命的联系，风俗和传统就像风和天气一样，不可估量。

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We had these heavy chunks of concrete and bricks falling on us. Timbers and what-have-you, and my wife was, unfortunately, struck with flying debris.

这些沉重的水泥块和砖块砸在我们身上。不幸的是，木头和你，还有我的妻子，都被飞溅的碎片击中了。

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

不仅是习俗，而且是自然都肯定，做比遭受不公正更可耻，而正义就是平等。

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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

我们的国花是混凝土三叶草。

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