line: "I have seen the best swimmers of my generation go under."

"我看见这一代最杰出的精子毁于争游"
Now, where is that from?

此言出自何处呢
Of course it's from Howl: "I have seen the best minds of my

它源于诗歌《嚎叫》 "我看见这一代
generation" blablabla.

最杰出的头脑---"如何如何
The point of making a sperm who quotes not only Allen Ginsberg,

让一个精子引用艾伦·金斯伯格等
but also hosts of other prior literary texts,

作家的作品其用意在于
is the point that the tradition precedes the individual speaker.

告诉读者传统高于个人论述
The individual speaker believes that he has an original voice.

论述者认为自己有发言权
He believes he's speaking in his own voice, but, lo and behold,

认为自己是在发表个人观点而事实上
his words are not his own.

那都不是他的观点
So, just as this is a redaction and a compression of all the various

因此正如这是各种西方哲学思想中
meanings of life that Western philosophy has offered up,

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