Then the night of our sordid commonplace life closes in around it, and the burned-out case, falling back to earth, lies useless and uncared for, slowly smolder-ing into ashes.

• 随后我们卑微生活的夜幕将它覆盖，燃尽的碎屑飘落下来，没有用处，没人在意，于是慢慢地归于尘土，化为灰烬。