the imagined past.

幻想的过去
This claim is that the true past has no significant distinction from the

这个声陈述是说真实的过去和虚构的过去没有
fictive past, that men's memories are no source of truth

重大意义上的区别人们的记忆是没有
about the past.

过去事实的真实来源的
In this little line McCarthy says to us, "That historical record that I

在这个短句中麦卡锡告诉我们对于历史记载
was quite careful to invoke, that I was quite careful to follow

我很认真的调用我在一些方面仔细的遵循
in some places, from which I got lots of detail that

从中我得到许多细节
I used in my novel: forget about that.

我在我的小说中也有使用不提这个了
My novel stands on an equal plane of authority.

我的小说立足于权威的平均水平
It gives me a platform to make equally valid claims of truth about

它给我提供了一个阐述历史真相
history and about the world."

和世界真相的平台
This is a kind of grandiloquent argument for fiction as

这是一种与历史截然相反的