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.

夜晚，当他大脑似乎燃烧时，他被一固定身份感，一不可简化、无可辩驳自我感所拜，感觉比他所知道任何感觉都更敏锐、更阴险、更无法逃避。