MMA Ramoswe用一只手遮住了她的眼睛。她沉思着。现在这个。MMAPotsane耸了耸肩。她说，但MMA总是如此。甚至是加博隆。查看所有这些建筑物。我们怎么知道Gaborone在五十年之内仍然存在？蚂蚁也没有得到加博隆的计划吗？MMA Ramotswe笑了。这是一个很好的方法。她反映了我们所有的人类努力，都是这样的，这仅仅是因为我们太无知了，无法意识到它，或者太健忘了，无法记住它，以至于我们有信心构建有能力持续的东西。
(Mma Ramoswe shaded her eyes with a hand.All that work, she mused. And now this.Mma Potsane shrugged her shoulders. But that is always true, Mma, she said. Even Gaborone. Look at all those buildings. How do we know that Gaborone will still be there in fifty years' time? Have the ants not got their plans for Gaborone as well?Mma Ramotswe smiled. It was a good way of putting it. All our human endeavors are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.)