If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

  • -- Joanne Harris 乔安·哈瑞斯

如果你想知道什么对一种文化来说是重要的,那就学习他们的语言。

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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

现代文化越来越客观。它的组织越来越多地从非个人的能量中生长出来,越来越少地吸收个人的主观整体。

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

在诗歌语言中,符号本身具有一种独立的价值,这种声音象征成为一种实际的因素,并创造了一种与所指相辅相成的东西。

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

你知道为什么语言会在我的作品中表现出来吗?因为我知道注意力持续时间短。

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

这种共同文化的愿景现在只是一种遥远的渴望。