I read books about Stalin, and books about how the Uzbek people came to identify as Muslims, and I read books about how to make atomic bombs, but it just felt like I was creating my own hurdles, and then jumping over them myself, instead of feeling the excitement of being part of a community of learners, a community of people who are engaged together in the cartographic enterprise of trying to better understand and map the world around us.
有关于斯大林的， 关于乌兹别克斯坦人民 是怎么被视为穆斯林的， 甚至还有关于怎么制造原子弹的， 但我的感觉并不好， 像是给自己制造了障碍， 然后还要自己跨过去， 我完全感受不到 身处学习社团里时的那种兴奋， 当时的我们就像一群地图发烧友， 聚集在地图制作公司， 试图更好地理解 和描绘我们所处的世界。