I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

  • -- Nicholas Mosley 莫斯利

我并没有想太多我写这些书的目的,除了我知道我想要我的下一部小说是一种不那么传统的形式,而不是直接的叙述。

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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

当然,出现的结果是,震级假设所有的地震都是相同的,除了一个不变的尺度因子。这比我们想象的更接近事实。

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

不再有小说或非小说;只有叙事。

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

我只在感恩节喝过几口酒。