It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

  • -- George Saunders 山德斯

在我看来,这是一个有价值的目标:试着创造一种持久而真实的意识表征,即这在一定程度上解释了在某一天,甚至某一特定时刻,我们头脑中发生的所有奇怪的、微小的、难以表达的、瞬间发生的、任性的事情。

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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

在陌生的海洋上航行的人一定对自己有点不自信。我们应该提防的是那种表面上无所不知,实际上却时刻与之为伍的人。

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

愚妄人好像水面的涟漪,凡他所作的,都必速消没。但义人好像雕刻在石头上,因为他们最小的行为,也是长存的。

Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.

不要接受陌生人的搭车——记住,所有的男人都像地狱一样奇怪。