We live the time that a match flickers; we pop the cork of a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant.
我们活着的时光,不过火柴闪烁的一瞬;才拔开一瓶姜汁汽水的瓶塞,地震便可能顷刻将我们吞没。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Æs Triplex —