There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions about 'the contemporary novel' where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

当代小说是不存在的。在我显得完全反动之前,让我补充一句,我很高兴地参加了许多关于“当代小说”的讨论,在这些讨论中,通常毫无疑问的意思是最近或即将出版的小说。

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I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

我认为你只是假设你的记忆只是你经历的视频回放,但它根本不是那样的。这是一个事件的完全重构,很多都是虚构的,因为你在填充空间。

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。

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

我们当代音乐文化的一个非常重要的方面——有些人可能会说极其重要的方面——是它在历史和地理意义上的扩展,在过去是未知的。

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

事实上,我没有选择在公共场合暴露自己。我选择竞争;另一边是随包裹一起来的。