The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

人类学中文学批评的意义不在于取代研究,而在于发现我们是如何具有说服力的。

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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

小说是对一个人想说什么,有什么感觉,有什么意思的不断探索,从这个意义上说,是一种行为艺术,而传记需要不同的技巧——研究和组织。

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

传统的人们因背离传统而愤怒,很大程度上是因为他们认为这种背离是对自己的批评。

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

如果你在某个阶段不投资于基础研究,你就开始失去应用研究的基础。

I know I eventually have to move on but what I feel for you will never be replaced.

我知道我最终会向前看,但我对你的感觉永远不会被取代。

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

批评家是一堆因品味而松散地结合在一起的偏见。

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

教育的目的是用开放的思想取代空虚的思想。