Material culture, because it is physically there, has the power to elude time: here is this vase made in 1500 and here we are sitting in 1991.
物質文化是時光的漏網之魚，有傲視時間的力量，因為它就在那兒。一隻一五○○年制的明代花瓶，坐在一九九一的今天，它不是「代表」一五○○，它就「是」一五○○。