We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

  • -- John Barton 约翰·巴顿

我们对自己在出生之前无法亲身了解世界上发生了什么感到放心,但我们对自己在未来某一时刻将停止与时间打交道的想法感到不安。

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You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

彼得,在大扫除之前,你不会忘记我的,是吗? 彼得当然答应了,然后飞走了。他带走了达林太太的吻。彼得毫不费力地吻了别人一下。有趣。但她似乎很满意。

It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.

这很简单。死亡并不是我们想象的那样。结束的不是生命,而是时间。