The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

从完全“当下”的意义上讲,当代小说是不可能的,因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写,所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

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A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is Life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

我还有不多的时候,要从你们中间出去,往那里去,我也不知道。我们不知道从哪里来,也不知道去哪里。生命是什么?它是萤火虫在夜里的闪光。在冬天,它就像一头野牛的呼吸。它就像一个小影子,跑过草地,消失在夕阳里。

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

在历史和当代社会结构中发现的社会形态的最早阶段是这样的:一个相对较小的圆圈与相邻的、陌生的或在某种程度上对立的圆圈紧紧地封闭在一起。

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

我读到的一切。我总是在忙着写一本书,对此我真的很书呆子气,我读完书之后就什么都不记得了。但我读过各种各样的书,从古典到现代。

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

有一种追求完美的激情,你很少能看到这种激情得到充分的发展;但你可能会注意到,在成功的人生中,它从来不是完全缺乏的。

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

小说是生命剩余时间的食物,是介于时间和等待之间的时光。