我们是孤独的动物。我们一生都在努力减少孤独感。我们古老的方法之一是讲述一个故事,恳求听者说——并感受到——“是的,事情就是这样,或者至少我是这样感觉的。”
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
It is not unlikely, but that there may be yet invented several other helps for the eye, as much exceeding those already found, as those do the bare eye.