If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, or to have crossed continents, each man to see what the other looked like.
正是因为孤独,人类
厌其烦地创造了字母,又
仅仅是动物的声音里抽离出文字;正是因为孤独,人类在洲际间跨越,想要看看未曾见过的人。