马丁•葛福德在一篇后记中曾表示，希望自己所作的画家约翰·康斯特布尔传记能带给读者小说般的愉悦。

In AN afterword Martin Gayford says that he would like his book about the painter, John Constable, to give the same pleasure that a novel would.

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这里讲的约翰·列侬，不像他永远也不可能见到的孙子那样，音乐并没有带给他世界知名度，而只是带来了短暂的奇特之旅，那些详细的记录更不可能为他的后代知晓。

For this John Lennon, unlike the grandson he would never see, music did not bring worldwide fame but was merely an exotic inter-lude, most details of which were never known to his descendants.

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我不明白他怎么会回来。迈克尔不喜欢约翰·布兰卡。有人告诉我，他是AEG带给迈克尔的。

I do not understand his return. Michael did not like John Branca. I was told, that he was brought to Michael by AEG.

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