In the glaring night-hours, when his brain seemed ablaze, he was visited by a sense of his fixed identity, of his irreducible, inexpugnable selfness, keener, more insidious, more unescapable, than any sensation he had ever known.

在刺眼夜，大脑似乎在燃烧时，被一种固定身份，一种不可简化、无可辩驳所拜访，这种觉比所知道任何觉都更敏锐、更阴险、更无法逃避。