So, that fragmentation of self is another layer of the problem of knowledge.

这种本性的分裂是关于认知的问题的另一层面
How can you know anything, when you're not a stable knower yourself?

你怎么能知道任何事情当你自己不是一个稳定的认知者
And I just want to look back to some of the other readings on our syllabus,

而我只是想去回看一些在我们教纲上的其他的读物
to think about how these problems have been addressed.

来思考这些问题是如何提出的
So, how do you know about the past in Robinson, for Marilynne Robinson?

你是怎么了解罗宾森的过去的玛里琳·罗宾森
For her, writing is the transcription of consciousness,

对她来说写作是个人意识的抄本
of human consciousness.

是人类意识的抄本
There is an endless present to her work and when she talks about

这里有对她的工作的无止境的呈现当她谈到
writers from the nineteenth century for example--Hawthorne,

十九世纪的作家例如霍桑
Dickinson, Emerson, Thoreau--she calls them aunts and uncles.

迪金森爱默生梭罗时她把他们称为阿姨和叔叔
I think it's very telling.

我认为这是非常生动的
It's as if they were part of her family, part of her present,

这就像他们是她的家庭成员她的出现的一部分