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.
我还以为我有一朵独一无二的花呢,我有的仅是一朵普通的花。这朵花,再加上三座只有我膝盖那么高的火山,而且其中一座还可能是永远熄灭了的,这一切不会使我成为一个了不起的王子。
The work of art is a fragment of eternity.