From March 1979
                       By Tomas Tranströmer

Weary of all who come with words, words but no language
I make my way to the snow-covered island.
The untamed has no words.
The unwritten pages spread out on every side!
I come upon the tracks of deer in the snow.
Language but no words.

️Past Lives
“Some crossings you pay for with your whole life.”

“This is where we end up. This is where I am supposed to be.”

“You never sleep talk in English. You only dream in Korean. Sometimes I think it’s cute, sometimes I guess I get scared. You dream in a language that I can’t understand. It’s like there’s this whole place inside of you where I can’t go.”

1. ⽅式状语从句：just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection
2. 主⼲结构：perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features
3. 并列结构 1 ：languages, music, social and religious customs 和 history 构成名词并列
4. 并列结构 2 : social 和 religious 构成形容词的并列，共同修饰customs#宋智鸣考研长难句#