Only a few months before people had been urging him to give in, to submit to mediocrity, to go to work. But he had known that he was justified in his way of life—and he had stuck it out stanchly.

就在几个月前，人们一直在敦促他屈服、屈服于平庸、去工作。但他知道他的生活方式是合理的——而且他坚定地坚持了下来。