If you read Walt Whitman, you will see much of the same ethos So, Ginsberg is not the first to do this in the American tradition, for sure, but it's a very important part of what the Beats revive.

如果你读过沃尔特惠特曼，你会发现类似的思潮,所以金斯堡肯定不是第一个在美国传统上这么做的，但它是使垮掉的一代复兴的重要部分。

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Does he not therefore as much accuse mankind by ?" his action as I do by my words?" You can see the mischievousness of Hobbes in that delightful passage. What about you, he says, and this is not in some kind of state of nature.

他在这些地方用行动攻击人类的程度,不正和我用文字攻击的程度相同吗,你们可以看出霍布斯在这一精彩段落里,的一丝顽皮，他说，你们怎么看呢，这和自然状态不同。

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