三十七
Jean Rhys, From an interview for The Paris Review when she was in her 80s, 1979
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.
简单汉化版：所有的书写是一个巨湖。有一些大河在灌注它，比如托尔斯泰或陀思妥耶夫斯基。同时也有一些小溪流在注入，比如我琼·里斯。重要的是灌注那湖。我不重要。重要的是那个湖。你必须持续地灌注它。
三十八
Kenneth Goldsmith（是那个屌炸天的网站ubuWeb的创始人）, Being Boring, 2004
In 1969, the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, "The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more." I've come to embrace Huebler's ideas, though it might be retooled as, "The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more." It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. I've transformed from a writer into an information manager, adept at the skills of replicating, organizing, mirroring, archiving, hoarding, storing, reprinting, bootlegging, plundering, and transferring. I've needed to acquire a whole new skill set: I've become a master typist, an exacting cut-and-paster, and an OCR demon. There's nothing I love more than transcription; I find few things more satisfying than collation.
简单汉化版：这个世界充斥着文字，有趣的或无趣的；我不想再补充什么……面对这些前所未有的海量文本，问题不是去写更多，而是我们必须学会如何去处理已有的、浩瀚的文本……我已经从一名作家完全转变成了一个信息管理员。
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乱弹：好吧，今夜我为自己只是个文字消费者而羞愧。
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