I can't say I'm outraged. Other people are even more outraged than me. They feel that I am too dismissive of the honors that they value.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
我们不是从祖先那里继承了海洋,而是从子孙那里借来的。