A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.
【译文】冰与炭不能长久共存,寒与暑不会同时到来。
What we see is not simply given but actively constructed through complex processes.
One has to pay dearly for immortality;one has to die several times while still alive.
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity of the real world” is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.