The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

星星死了。动物们不会看:我们的日子只剩下我们自己,时间很短,历史对失败者也许会说“唉”,但却无法帮助或宽恕。

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Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

时间限制是虚构的。失去所有的时间意识实际上是通往现实的道路。我们使用时钟和日历是为了方便,而不是因为那种时间是真实的。

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

到了收支相抵的时候,有人把钱挪走了。