The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

最激动人心的发现往往来自于质疑其他人认为理所当然的事情。

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community， against his will， is to prevent harm to others.