当那些有趣的东西成为习惯的时候,问题就来了。我认为这就是我们文化中发生的事情。快餐已成为日常用餐。
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.