"We are all the sum of our memories, but what happens when those memories are erased or altered? Do we become someone else, or do we remain the same person, just with a different past?"
我们都是我们记忆的总和,但当这些记忆被抹去或改变时会发生什么?我们会变成另一个人,还是仍然是同一个人,只是有了不同的过去?
"Mental life is fundamentally adaptive."
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
The novel is an art form that is always in crisis, always on the verge of disappearing, and that's what keeps it alive.