A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
----- J. Burroughs. Averican naturalist
一个人可以失败多次,但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人,他还不是一个失败者。
------ 美国博物学家 巴勒斯·J
All of us bear witness to the dissolution of our piece of creation. Only the novelist can restore to us, in the miracle of ink that pours itself like blood onto paper, the lineaments of our lost worlds, alive.