But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.

但我们还不能为现在的人撰写传记，有时人们会给我们写信,问怎么样才能纳入传记中，我们就寄回明信片，上面写着，活人无资格。

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I hope that you'll have that in the back of your head when we get to the story of Athens and the invention of democracy, because it was off the wall from the perspective of Greek tradition.

我希望,当我们讲到雅典神话,以及民主制的诞生时,你们还记得这点,因为从希腊人的传统观点来看,这是很不寻常的

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