A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

  • -- Fredric Jameson 詹明信

更进一步的观点是,在目前的宇宙中,一切都在慢慢地命名;这与亚里士多德的旧宇宙也没有任何关系,在旧宇宙中,椅子的概念包含了所有的个人表现。

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The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

行星从来没有两次是相同的,它们总是不同的,所以他们可以把我画的标记和他们现在的照片进行比较,他们知道我画的是我真正看到的,而不是从哪里复制来的。

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

无论你在哪里写作,都应该是一个小小的避难所,一个你可以远离这个世界的地方。你越封闭,你就越被迫回到自己的想象中。

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

这种创造性的行为只持续了很短的一段时间,就像闪电一样的给予和接受,这段时间刚好够你把相机调平,把稍纵即逝的猎物困在你的小盒子里。

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

当有人说服你,你对任何人都没有任何价值了,他们花了很多时间来做这件事,你自己也开始相信了。

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

所有现行法规的总和构成了越来越多的障碍。

I don't resent anything.

我不怨恨任何事情。