And things ancestral, where my forebears came from, and history, that past and present melding; and climate, too, tropical and temperate worlds, all sometimes coming togther as more than metaphor.

而诸如我的祖先来自哪里、过去与现在融为一起的历史以及热带和温带的两重世界，常常不仅仅是作为隐喻出现在我的作品之中。