Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

  • -- Russell Hoban 罗素·霍本

语言是一种考古工具……我们所说的语言是人类努力和历史的全部重写本。

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

在这个多事之秋,许多失望和不幸都是文学和相关艺术的直接结果。我们相信,任何把自己的生命和精力用于幻想的人,从根本上来说都是不够的。

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

如果你想展望未来,想象一下一只靴子永远踩在一个人的脸上。