What I've done with it sitting still, going back to it in my head, trying to understand it, finding a place for it in my thinking, that's lasted 24 years already and will probably last a lifetime.

这经验对于无所去处的我来说，允许我可以在心思中回朔，试着了解它，让它在我的思维中寻得一个位置，在那儿，它已存留了24年，而且很可能会在我这生中，一直持续下去。

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"The best way, for me, always is to get away from the piano, sit in a place and hear it in my head, " he says.

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