pointillist

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The book is composed, like a pointillist painting, of thousands of factual details.
整部書就猶如一幅點(diǎn)彩派畫家的作品，由無數(shù)的細(xì)節(jié)交織而成。
The book is composed, like a pointillist painting, of thousands of factual details. Nothing is sacrificed to curtail its length; the only concession is to remove the footnotes from the text.
這本自傳包含了數(shù)以千計(jì)零零散散的事實(shí)，竝沒有爲(wèi)了削減長度而犧牲任何的細(xì)節(jié)，其唯一的讓步就是將稿件中的附注刪除（事實(shí)上，這些附注足以填滿5000張打印紙，竝且它們都在這本書的官網(wǎng)上麪）。

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