I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

  • -- George Murray 默里

我想在神话和遥远的未来之间摇摆,昨天,今天,明天。感觉有点像预言,有点像讲故事。

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时,真理就会受到相当大的歪曲,而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单,假设变成教条,相对变成绝对。

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

神话从世界的角度,即从另一个世界或第二世界的角度,表达了人对自身与自身存在的基础和限度之间的关系的认识。

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

“野蛮人”一词在一般意义上的使用,我倾向于认为,它本身就是对这个词的滥用,以及对它所适用的人民的滥用。

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

希望在不远的将来,我们能够理解像星星这样简单的东西,这是明智的判断。

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

它是一个神话,而不是命令;它是一个寓言,而不是逻辑;

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

我要求被起诉。我请求因作伪证而被起诉。