The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

任何一个人对一首他或她真正喜爱的诗歌或散文所能表达的最重要的敬意,就是把它背下来。不是用头脑,而是用心;表达是至关重要的。

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The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.

哈德利街之梦是对实现一个愿景的致敬。我父亲在一个甜点城街区建了一个院子,他看到了一些我们看不到的东西。几年之后,这张专辑就诞生在哈德利大街上,他建立了我开始录制这张专辑的工作室。

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

这里的问题是人类,而不是怪物,也不是动物。人类做的事情甚至是怪物都不会做的,因为人类更复杂。

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

人类的思维只是为了检验类比而形成的比较,因此不能先于记忆的存在。