It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

  • -- George Saunders 山德斯

在我看来,这是一个有价值的目标:试着创造一种持久而真实的意识表征,即这在一定程度上解释了在某一天,甚至某一特定时刻,我们头脑中发生的所有奇怪的、微小的、难以表达的、瞬间发生的、任性的事情。

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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

问题是如何把想象力的作品从一种语言中带出来,这种语言被使用它的人视为理所当然,就像我们自己的语言一样。这没什么奇怪的。

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

愚妄人好像水面的涟漪,凡他所作的,都必速消没。但义人好像雕刻在石头上,因为他们最小的行为,也是长存的。

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

这就是制作唱片的奇怪之处。你可以在一个小时内保持一种情绪,然后把它记录下来,这样你就会被人记住。

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

一波又一波的爱淹没了舞台,冲刷着我,开始了我一生中最伟大、最持久的浪漫。