This is on the first page of Part One, the middle of that first

在第一部分第一页的首段正中写着
paragraph: "First reports of him came to me through Chad King,

我对他最初的了解是通过乍得王
who had shown me a few letters from him, written in a New Mexico

他给我看了几封尼尔从一个新墨西哥的教养所
reform school."

写来的信
So, his letters come out of this western land, New Mexico,

也就是说他的信来自西部新墨西哥
and a land of criminality, the reform school.

一个罪行泛滥的土地上的教养所
So, he's exotic just from the very beginning, and it's

因此他的语言从一开始就带着奇异的风格
an exotic language.

是一种奇异的语言
It's the letters that come out of this exotic place that first catch

首先引起他们注意的是
their attention. I was tremendously interested

这些来自异国的信我对这些信有着极度的兴趣
in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to

因为它们如此天真可爱地让乍得
teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual

不由自主地把他知道的所有关于尼采的绝妙知识