Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

  • -- Arlie Russell Hochschild 霍奇柴尔德

我在想,会不会有这样一个人,我们可以雇他来搞清楚我们想要什么?在我对我们生活中亲密部分的外包进行研究时,我是否已经到了最后一个关键时刻,还是已经到了荒谬的市场前沿?

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

一种身份似乎是通过一个人面对和使用他的经验的方式获得的。

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

亲密关系是文学探索、理解和描述的金矿。