gunta's class reading

keep abreast with 跟上,不落后于

symptom v 症状,症候, 表征

ego 自我意识，自尊心， 自负

The meaning of stories---

At the age of thirty-five, Margaret Sands made a two-thousand-mile pilgrimage 旅行,漫游 across the country with her teenage daughter in oreder to break into 打断,非法闯入an abandoned chapel 小教堂 and "rip 撕开,the place apart" The two of them scaled a Cyclone 龙卷风 fence 铁丝网 surrounding a former Cothecilic boarding school for girls. Margaret's daughter pried open a window, squeezed throuth it, and ran around to the back of the building to open a door and let her mother inside. Twenty-five years had passed since Margaret left the schoool. Everything lloked smaller to her now, but the smell was a familiar one hshe always associated with primitive 原始的，早期的， loathing 强烈的反感 and fear.

mythology 神话
rite 惯例
counteraction 反作用
constent 固定不变的，接连不断的
religious 宗教的，严谨的
cosmic 宇宙的，广大的
myth 虚构的人和事

through---完结，断绝，through with smoking

legacy---留给后人的东西


integrating and making peace among conflicting imagoes in one's personal myth is a hallmark of mature identity in the middle-adult years.

integrate--整合，消除差异性，
imagoe 意像
hallmark 品质证明

narrative tension----叙事张力

elaborate--精心制作的，复杂的，煞费苦心的，

Indeed, the richest and most dynamic personal myths are populated by a number of conflicting and elaborate images.