
王冠上的宝石
The jewel in the crown
Paul Scott · 初版 1966 年
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Scott的Raj Quartet首部作品,讲述了殖民地时期的印度生活。一名初到印度的年轻英国女子,未受统治阶层英国殖民者制度化种族主义的熏染,与一名受过英国公立学校教育的印度青年坠入爱河。当这名女子被暴乱分子强暴后,她的恋人却身列被告席。年轻女子拒绝出庭指证他或以任何方式牵连他,她因此遭到了整个英国人社群的排斥。
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……赌徒和黑帮分子。小说类:毛姆的《刀锋》(The Razor's Edge),可以说是不同动机如何以建设性或毁灭性的方式主导不同人群的案例研究。保罗·斯科特的《皇冠上的明珠》(The Jewel in the Crown),每一章都由不同角色从类似“罗生门”的视角叙述一桩骇人听闻的罪行,并通过他们揭开谜团,勾勒出印度错综复杂的多面相貌……
…gamblers and mobsters. Fiction The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham. A case study of ways in which different types of motivation can dominate different people in constructive and destructive ways. The Jewel in the Crown, by Paul Scott. In each chapter, a different character relates a Rashomon-like point of view of a shocking crime, and through them a mystery is explained, and a complex portrait of India's many faces…
……在过去至少几百年里(取决于你怎么定义),人们一直在努力从零构建一种尽可能摆脱人类偏见的世界观。眼下,这顶皇冠上的明珠(jewel in the crown)就是量子物理:一种本质上属于统计性质的理论,它如此超脱于人类的偏见与假设,以至于许多聪明人都很难理解或接受它,尽管它具有不可思议的预测……
…have tried over at least the past few hundred years (depending on your definitions) to build, from scratch, a perspective on the world which is as free from human bias as possible. At the moment, the jewel in the crown is quantum physics: an inherently statistical theory, so detached from human biases and assumptions that many smart people have struggled to understand or accept it, despite its incredible predictive…