The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief. By V.S. Naipaul.
非洲的假面舞会：一瞥非洲信仰
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Absolutely, and overall, fortunately, it's a positive cloud in most of us.
拉玛钱德朗：对极了。总的来说，幸运的是我们大多数人所处的“云”都是积极的。
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
拉玛钱德朗：我们的大脑很可能是相通的，并比预期的情况略微乐观一些。
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Offhand, I can't tell you when they started using the term "anosognosia" for other types of denial.
拉玛钱德朗：我不能马上告诉你，他们何时开始将“病感失认症”这个术语用于其它的否认类型。
The epigraph, quotes from Michel Foucault and V.S. Naipaul about memory and consciousness, suggests how the novel should be read.
引用的米歇尔·福柯和v.s.奈保尔关于记忆和意识的铭文，提示了该如何阅读这部小说。
They are, in novelist V.S. Naipaul's expression, "half-made societies," trapped between a no-longer-usable past and a not-yet-accessible future.
用小说家v.s.奈保尔的话说，他们是“半成品社会”，纠结于不再可用的历史和还未达到的未来之间。
V.S. Ramachandran has written about anosognosia in a number of journal articles and in his extraordinary book with Sandra Blakeslee, “Phantoms in the Brain.”
拉玛钱德朗曾在许多期刊论文以及同桑德拉-布莱克斯利合著的《脑中的幽灵》（Phantomsinthe Brain）中提及“病感失认症”。
V.S. Naipaul's recent comments about female authors-that they can never be his equal because of their "sentimentality, and narrow view of the world" -are debunked here.
维·苏·奈保尔最近对女性作家的评论——她们永远无法可与他匹敌，因为她们太过感性、视野狭窄——此刻被彻底否定。
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Well, you can have anosognosia for Wernicke’s aphasia [a neurological disorder that prevents comprehension or production of speech] or you can have it for amnesia.
拉玛钱德朗 ：嗯，你可以把病感失认症归于魏尼克（Wernicke）发现的失语症[一种神经失调，会妨碍对言谈的理解或说话]，你也可以把它归于健忘症。
See V.S. Ramachandran, the evolutionary biology of self-deception, laughter, dreaming and depression: some clues from anosognosia, Medical Hypotheses, November 1996, 47 (5) : 347-62.
参见v.s.拉玛钱德朗的《进化生物学之自欺、大笑、梦和沮丧：来自病感失认症的提示》，《医学假说》杂志，1996年11月刊，47 (5)：347 - 62。
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: and it gets even better, she's just now told me that it's not her left arm, it is her mother's arm, so why is she pulling up her mother's arm and pointing it at my nose?
拉玛钱德朗：更绝的是，她刚刚告诉我那并非她自己的左臂，而是她妈妈的手臂，那为什么她会拉起她妈妈的手臂并指向我的鼻子呢？
Still curious about the nature of self-deception, denial and neglect, I called V.S. Ramachandran, a legendary neuroscientist at the University of California – San Diego and an expert on anosognosia.
我仍然对自欺、否认和忽视感到好奇，于是打电话给V·S·拉玛钱德朗（V.S. Ramachandran）——加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校传奇的神经系统学家及疾病感缺失症专家。
Still curious about the nature of self-deception, denial and neglect, I called V.S. Ramachandran, a legendary neuroscientist at the University of California – San Diego and an expert on anosognosia.
我仍然对自欺、否认和忽视感到好奇，于是打电话给V·S·拉玛钱德朗（V.S. Ramachandran）——加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校传奇的神经系统学家及疾病感缺失症专家。
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