“There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to poison the present?”
— Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe
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“对过去的兴趣太大了,她想。人们总是在挖掘很久以前发生的事情。如果这样做的效果仅仅是毒害了现在,那么有什么意义呢?”
——亚历山大·麦考·史密斯《长颈鹿的眼泪》