Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
我对现实不感兴趣。我感兴趣的是现实之外的东西。