So,that's how thematically the album began."

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This is a world understood from a metonymic point of view as that which lacks organicity, and yet at the same time the whole point of the story is thematically metaphoric.

这个世界要从转喻的角度来理解,因为世界没有组织性，而且同时,整个故事的主旨就是比喻性的。

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