The writer’s role is to question, not to comfort.
作家的角色是质疑而非安慰。
事实是，你永远无法确定接下来会发生什么。
当言语无法表达时，音乐便开始诉说。
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.
世界是黑暗的，而光弥足珍贵。