安尼尔的鬼魂

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• The noise of his hammering stopped and there was just wind around them, its tugs and gusts and whistles. He handed the tools to his nephew. The he drew from a satchel the colors for the eye. He looked past the vertical line of cheek into the landscape. Pale greens, dark greens, bird movement and their nearby sounds. It was the figure of the world the statute would see forever, in rainlight and sunlight, a combustible world of weather even without the human element. The eyes, like his at the moment, would always look north. As would the great scarred face half a mile away, which he had helped knit together from damaged stone, a statute that was no longer a god, that no longer had its graceful line but only the pure sad glance Anada had found. And now, without human sight he was seeing... (查看原文)

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• “那些美國電影、英文小說——還記不記得它們共通的結局是什麼？”那天晚上，迦米尼問：“美國人或英國佬上了飛機走人，結束。鏡頭也跟著走了，他望著窗外的蒙巴薩，或者越南，還是雅加達，他現在總算可以隔著雲霧欣賞了。憔悴的英雄，對著鄰座的小妞打屁幾句，他就要打道回府了。至於戰爭呢？管他是為什麼開打的，總算是告一段落了。對西方人而言，光這麼點真實就夠了。這或許就是過去這兩百年來西方政治書寫的歷史——及早脫身，寫一本書，揚名立萬。” (查看原文)

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