Or try to forget it, or work on forgetting it, or create a structure of forgetting; which is, of course, always a structure of remembering at the same time.

或者尝试着去忘记,说服自己去忘记,编织一张忘却的网,然而同样是这张网,却总是将那些想要遗忘的记忆留下

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It is in fact a very, very difficult and derivative act of the mind to try to forget that I am looking at a sign that says 'exit' and, in fact, just looking at what is there without knowing what it is.

事实上，试图忘记那个写着存在的标志,和只知道它存在而不知道它是什么，是非常难的事情。

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The things that they taught us in school, when they required us to remember poetry, no matter how we try, we can't forget it, and the stuff that we had to remember that was in prose, no matter how we try we can't remember it.

我们在学校所学的知识,当以诗歌的形式进行记忆时,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难忘记,但是如果让我们背诵散文,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难记住

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