‘Having gone to the French countryside to spend the weekend with the Wright family, James was ushered into their house and shown numerous volumes of Kierkegaard on a bookshelf. Wright pointed to the shelf, saying, “Look here Nello, you see those books there? .. Everything that he writes in those books I knew before I had them.” James suggests that Wright’s apparently intuitive foreknowledge of the issues raised by Kierkegaard was not intuitive at all. It was an elementary product of his historical experiences as a black growing up in the United States between the wars: “What [Dick] was telling me was that he was a black man in the United States and that gave him an insight into what today is the universal opinion and attitude of the modern personality”’

生而为黑人就是一生都在经历存在主义危机，现在老中也快了（烟）