That was the way he always was, alien to the existence of his sons, partly because he considered childhood as a period of mental insufficiency, and partly because he was always too absorbed in his fantasticspeculations.

他一直都是这样， 对儿子们的存在感到陌生，部分原因是他认为童年是精神不健全的时期， 部分原因是他总是太专注于自己的幻想。