第264页 AT THE PIONEER CAFE

读到目前位置最匪夷所思的一段。虽然是在写梦境，但第一次读的时候真的被这种蔑视语法怪力乱神的写法吓到了，甚至在感官上产生极度的不适。再读才发现其实兴文有自己的逻辑，把“绿绿黑黑”的字眼拿走其实语法的改造并没有那么强，只是一种对语言规则的“伪叛逆”。

Rushdie把这一段放在这一章的最开始，让人有种心慌的错觉，似乎接下来都是这种写作方式一般。
NO COLOURS EXCEPT green and black the walls are green they sky is black (there is no roof) the stars are green the Widow's hair has a centre-parting it is green on the left and on the right black. High as the sky the chair is green the seat is black the Widow's arm is long as death its skin is green the fingernails are long and sharp and black. Between the walls the children green the walls are green the Widow;s arm comes snaking down the snake is green the children scream the fingernails are black they scratch the Widow's arm is hunting seen the children run and scream the widow's hand curls round them green and black. Now one by one the children mmff are stifled quiet the Widow's hand is lifting one by one the children green their blood is black unloosed by cutting fingernails it splashes black on walls (of green) as one by one the curling hand lifts children high as sky the sky is black there are no stars the Widowlaughs her tngue is green but her teeth are black. And children torn in two in them into little balls the balls are green the night is black. And little balls fly into night between the walls the children shriek as one by one the Widow's hand. And in a corner the Monkey and I(the walls are green the shadows black) cowering crawling wide high walls green fading into black there is no roof and Widow;s hand comes onebyone the children screm and mmff and little balls and hand and scream and mmff and splashing stains of black. Now only she and I and no more screams the Widow's hand comes hunting hunting the skin is green the nails are black towards the corner hunting hunting while we shrink closer into the corner our skin is green our fear is black and now the Hand comes reaching reaching and she my sister pushes me out out of the corner while she stays cowering staring the hand the nails are curling scream and mmff and splash of black andup into the high as sky  and laughing Widow tearing I am rolling into little balls the balls are green and out into the night the night is black...