My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

  • -- John Maxwell Coetzee 约翰·麦克斯韦·科茨

我的回答是,在我所剩的时间里,活出这个问题比试图用抽象的术语来回答它更有成效,这是一个令人怀疑和犹豫的回答。

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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

推理小说作家的写作习惯通常都很好,而这次的写作习惯则是非常优秀的,而且准备得非常充分,而且是事先想好了的。许多人献出了他们的时间和技能,以及许多机智,而安克雷奇使我们格外受欢迎。

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

对不起,这是真的。有孩子真的会改变你对这些事情的看法。我们出生,只活了短暂的一瞬间,然后就死了。这已经发生很长时间了。技术并没有给它带来多大改变——如果有的话。