Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints, and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer.
Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints, and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer.
在那段时间中，我的生命总是因为种种哄骗、假像和幻觉，而激动不安，如果没有它们，我一定无法战胜无数诱惑，不当作家而改投其他行业。