The trouble was that in order to understand the Predictions you had to be able to think like a half crazed, highly intelligent seventeenth century witch with a mind like a crossword puzzle dictionary.

问题在于，你要是想理解“大书”中的预言，就必须像17世纪疯疯癫癫的高智商女巫那样思考。这种人的脑袋就跟填字游戏那样纵横交错的混乱不堪。

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There are a number of powerful sections, however, that are impossible to dismiss, particularly the story of Lila Lipscomb, a Flint, Michigan, mother who loses her son in the Iraq war and, giving way to unappeasable grief, makes a half-crazed pilgrimage to the White House.

NEWYORKER: Fahrenheit 9/11