His real life was spent in a world so remote from this familiar setting that he sometimes had the mysterious sense of a living metempsychosis, a furtive passage from one identity to another — yet the other as unescapably himself!
他的真实生活是在一个与这个熟悉的环境如此遥远的世界中度过的,以至于他有时会有一种活生生的轮回的神秘感觉,一种从一种身份到另一种身份的偷偷摸摸的过渡——而另一种身份又不可避免地成为他自己!