It suggests that the human tendency towards violence has no origin, has no end.

这表明了人类对于暴力的倾向没有源头也没有尽头
It's a different kind of eternal present from Robinson's,

这是一种和罗宾森不同的的永恒的体现
and yet it is still one that gives him a seamless access to the past,

而这也正帮助他可以无障碍的追溯历史
so he can make modern U.S.-Mexico border look very much like,

所以他可以让现代的美国和墨西哥边界看起来像
for example, the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1840s (and this is later in

先打个比方美国和墨西哥在十八世纪四十年代时的边界这写在
his Border Trilogy when you see the nuclear tests in this same

他后来的作品《边境三部曲》中当你看到核实验在这同一片
landscape that we've seen all the action of Blood Meridian).

土地上我们看到了《血腥子午线》中的所有举动
So, he makes those two look very similar in that landscape.

所以他让那两个在那片土地上看起来非常像
Philip Roth: how do you know the past?

菲利普·罗斯你怎么了解过去
Well, this is a major theme of my lecture on Wednesday of last week.

这是我最后一个星期的星期三的那节课的主题
How does Nathan know any of Coleman's past?

内森是怎么知道克尔曼的过去的
He has to rely on other narrators.

他必须依靠其他的叙述者