He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.
他正在探测自身天性的深处,那些比他自身更古老、更深沉的部分,一直追溯到时间的母腹。
— Jack London · The Call of the Wild (1903) · Chapter III · The Dominant Primordial Beast —