"At first I was in agony and despair," he recalls.

“起初我苦恼不安，完全绝望，”他回忆说。

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"At first I was in agony and despair," he recalls. "Then came the thought of what happens when he grows up."

他回忆说：“一开始我陷入了痛苦与绝望，继而想到了当他长大之后会发生什么。”

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The dramatic use of light (by Jean Kalman, re-created by Cor van den Brink) heightened the starkness of Blanche's world, zeroing in on the central figures in each of the scenes and illuminating the white elements Blanche's dress (the costumes were by Falk Bauer), her novice's headdress, the faces, and the bed linen of the First Prioress, who dies in agony and terror.

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For the first three days after the operation, he was in agony, and it was eventually found that an epidural had been put in the wrong place and the only pain relief he had had was paracetamol.

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