……“迷人的人，当没有积极地互相拍摄时，”一位朋友曾经说过，这是如此不友善，但是就像许多不友善的评论一样，里面也有很多真相。他们互相射击，并且已经这样做了几个世纪。他们做了争吵，并在长期的历史上繁殖 - 或历史应该已经死了。历史的问题在于它拒绝躺下而死。
(..."Charming people, when not actively shooting one another," a friend had once said, which was so unkind, but, like so many unkind comments, had a grain of truth in it. They shoot one another and had been doing so for centuries. They did bicker over and brood on long-dead history--or history that should be long dead. The problem with history was that it refused to lie down and die.)