but he precipitously returned to France.

他却出人意料的回到了法国
He dabbled in spiritism,

开始涉足神秘领域
trying to contact the soul of his dead father--

试图与其已逝的父亲的灵魂取得联系
that's where you try to move tables around and all of that.

那是类似用意念移动物体的理论
His anarchist friend Charles Malato claimed that he lost

他无政府主义的朋友查尔斯·马拉度认为他
his footing, and fell into the abyss of spiritism,

掉入了灵性思想的深渊
even becoming a medium of incarnation,

他渴望知识
and wasted his health in such exhausting experiments because he longed for knowledge.

却把精力浪费在通灵之类的事上
But he left it all behind

但在巴黎的他
and, in Paris,

对此置之不理
he worked here and there

他在巴黎附近
while living on the margins of urban life.

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