Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

  • -- Eugenio Montale 蒙塔莱

在当代文明幸福的黑暗背景下,即使是艺术也趋向于交融,失去了自己的身份。

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The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

从完全“当下”的意义上讲,当代小说是不可能的,因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写,所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

因此,私刑法在遥远的西方占据主导地位,直到文明传播到各个地区,法律的有序进程取而代之。紧急情况不再存在,私刑逐渐从西方消失。

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

我从来没有注意过什么是当代的,什么是商业的,这对我来说没有任何意义。

The human race has improved everything except the human race.

除了人类,人类已经改善了一切。