Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
专制制度就像地狱一样,并不容易战胜,但我们可以安慰的是:斗争越艰巨,胜利将越光荣。
写作是一种勇敢的行为,是面对自己和世界的行为。