There is no border in the West. So Sal has to reinvent one, and in some sense it's a border of time.

西部里本身没有什么分界线，所以萨尔必须新发明一个，他所分的界限可以说按照时间来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

s very important but it's also pretty nearly impossible because the difficulty of the terrain, the people who are divided by this border do not recognize the border and the Afghanastan has never recognized it as an international border.

但其实也是几乎不可能的，It’,因为那里的地形很复杂，被这个边境线所分开的人们并不认可这个边境线,阿富汗人不认可这个边境线。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选