I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somehow -the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.
我願意給你我百般守護的內核 - 不懂花言巧語，未被夢想所累，也未被歲月、快樂和不幸觸碰過的，我的內心。
（這是敘說者的內心）
… that traffics not with dreams 沒有被夢想塞滿的內心。
……
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
我能夠給你的是我的寂寞、我的陰沉、我心中的饑渴；我正在盡力用易變、危險和失敗來收買你。
（這是敘說者的外表）
