1. And so with solids such as a shell, a nut, a plum, a peat, a tadpole, a mushroom, a mountain peak, a kidney, a carrot, a tree-trunk, a bird, a bud, a lark, a ladybird, a bulrush, a bone, 对于其他实体,如,贝壳、核桃、李子、梨子、蝌蚪、蘑菇、山峰、肾脏、胡萝卜、树干、鸟儿、花蕾、云雀、瓢虫、芦苇以及骨头也应这样来感觉。
2. Something I had always known — the way I knew my skin was the brown color of a nut rubbed repeatedly with a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name — something I took completely for granted, "the sun is shining, the air is warm" — was not 某些我一直知道的东西——就象知道自己的皮肤像是用软布反复摩擦后的那种坚果棕色,或者就象知道我自己的名字——某种我完全把它当作理所当然的东西——"阳光灿烂,空气暖和",——居然会并非如此。