"The major threats to survival that our ancestors faced - predators, starvation, disease - left their mark on our fears and anxieties."
我们祖先面临的主要生存威胁 - 捕食者、饥饿、疾病 - 在我们的恐惧和焦虑中留下了印记。
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
Only the dead have seen the end of war
The process of perception is not a simple matter of recording sensory data but involves the active organization of that data into meaningful patterns.
To write is to confront the chaos of existence and give it meaning.