The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

  • -- Philip K. Dick 迪克

操纵现实的基本工具是操纵文字。如果你能控制词语的意思,你就能控制那些必须使用词语的人。

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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

就像一种明显严格的音乐形式一样,它把五分钟的整体分解成它的结构部分——一个描述性的序言,拿牌的动作,对牌的操作的发展,以及所取得成就的揭示。

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

我喜欢读书和写作,但后来发生了一些事。在我完成学业的过程中,我不断收到别人递给我的书,这些书既不能让我兴奋,也与我的生活现实毫无关联。

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

如果真的发生了什么大事,想要把现实抛诸脑后,进入一个虚构的世界是非常非常困难的。

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

我尊重人们的信仰,但我不尊重他们为了制造恐惧和控制而操纵信仰。

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

你们俩说的是同一件事。你们吵架的唯一原因是因为你们用了不同的词。

If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.

如果我告诉你这些话,你无论如何也不会相信。