What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

  • -- George Saunders 山德斯

知道这是一件多么有力量的事:一个人的欲望可以映射到陌生人身上;一个人在自己身上找到的东西,一定会在别人身上找到。

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More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

我越来越多地认为,私有化不仅是企业利益对资源和权力的接管,而且是公民退回到私人生活和私人空间,远离与陌生人的团结,越来越害怕甚至无法想象在公共场合采取行动。

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

我上周才知道——我姐姐告诉我——我父亲有一些披头士的唱片。所以我一定听过他们很多次,但从来没有注意到,真的。现在我用新的耳朵倾听他们。

Know each other as if your were brothers; negotiate deals as if you were strangers to each other.

像兄弟一样互相了解;像陌生人一样谈判。

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

我找到了斑点尾巴的小屋。他邀请我进去。