He spent years burrowing away in the library of the British Museum and at long intervals produced a huge pseudo-scientific, pseudo-philosophical book that nobody read and that he had to publish at his own expense.

他花了数年时间潜伏在大英博物馆的图书馆里， 每隔很长一段时间就会出版一本无人阅读的巨著伪科学、伪哲学书籍， 而且他不得不自费出版。