If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

如果有一个地方你不能争辩,你可以把事实放在这里,文本放在那里,看看它们是否符合,那肯定是人类学。

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There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

在那里,我受到了限制,就像我和瑞尔在一起时一样。在某种程度上,把你的故事设定好并不是一个很大的负担。我很乐意找出我认为讲述这一系列历史事实的最戏剧化的方式。

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

错误的事实对科学的进步是非常有害的,因为它们往往持续很长时间;但是,错误的观点,如果有一些证据支持,几乎没有什么害处,因为每个人都乐于证明自己的错误。

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

他们让我写下来,然后把我放大了。但他们最终解雇了我。

I am not giving up, i am just starting over.

我没有放弃,我只是重新开始。