I say that my current offering isn't a mystical story or a religiously mystifying story at all.

我觉得我现在所说并非一个神秘故事,也不是一个宗教的神秘故事。

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They talk a lot, as Sarah said, they talk a lot about abstract questions, and this puts the meaning of the story in that abstract register. Is it a love story, or is it a religious story, a mystifying story?

他们谈论了很多，如萨拉所说，他们谈论了很多,很抽象的问题，这使得这个故事,变得抽象了，这是个爱情故事吗，有的或者是个宗教故事，还是个神秘故事呢？

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