The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

  • -- Philip K. Dick 迪克

操纵现实的基本工具是操纵文字。如果你能控制词语的意思,你就能控制那些必须使用词语的人。

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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

就像一种明显严格的音乐形式一样,它把五分钟的整体分解成它的结构部分——一个描述性的序言,拿牌的动作,对牌的操作的发展,以及所取得成就的揭示。

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

幻觉把自己呈现在我们面前,因为它们能减轻我们的痛苦,让我们享受快乐。因此,我们必须毫无怨言地接受它,因为有时它们会与一些现实发生冲突,被撞得粉碎。

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

在版画制作中,从直接的照片到最后的成品,有大量的操作。如果我正确地完成了我的工作,那么它就应该是透明的,而不应该是可见的。

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

我认为那些你不想说的话会让你困扰最久。

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

言语就是言语。证据在于你如何行动,如何反应。

Reality TV rots people's brains.

真人秀节目会腐蚀人的大脑。