Wilbur Swain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents are forced to send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But behind their facade of idiocy, the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers...
‘As I said in my speech’: I told him, 'your new middle name would consist of a noun, the name of a flower or fruit or nut or vegetable or legume, or a bird or a reptile or a fish, or a mollusk, or a gem or a mineral or a chemical element - connected by a hyphen to a number between one and twenty.' (查看原文)
‘Exactly,’ I said. 'And they deserve something else which is going to happen to them, now that they have the courage to speak to strangers. You watch, Sophie. The simple experience of companionship is going to allow them to climb the evolutionary ladder in a matter of hours or days, or weeks at most.' (查看原文)
prelude里作者说得没错，整个故事其实就是一篇高度改编的自传，是对prelude里提及的一切的扩写。 Wilbur一生被love&common decency困扰，对前者的抗拒和对后者的遵从看似对立，实则融为一体。 Cos though as Eliza put it: saying 'i love u' is like pointing a gun against o...
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0 有用 何倩彤 2010-03-21 02:17:49
序有五星。內容前半四星。後半三星。