Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  • -- Umberto Eco 乌姆贝托生态

每次我写小说的时候,我都至少有两年的时间确信这是最后一部,因为小说就像一个孩子。它在出生后两年。你必须照顾好它。它开始走路,然后说话。

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Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.

突然间,我们发现你可以写一些关于真实生活的戏剧,人们已经写了一段时间了,但他们并不总是能打动观众。他们在小剧院里表演。

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

语言是一只裂开的水壶,我们在上面敲出曲调,让熊跟着跳舞,而我们却时时刻刻想让星星怜悯。

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

一个伟大天才的出现,胜过一百个平庸之辈的诞生。

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

佛陀在生与死之间自由自在地移动,随意出现与消失。