任何重复性活动（如惩罚犯罪或葬礼仪式）的功能，在于它在整体社会生活中扮演的角色，从而对维持结构连续性所做的贡献。

I'm not a preacher and I'm not a teacher. I'm just a singer.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

写作的行为是一种抵抗，一种重新夺回我们的声音和故事的方式。