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dcking12월 23일 点名From yan 就不点别人了，七个人也麻烦，有主动的来续总是欢迎的。
2.如果现在可以让你随心所欲去旅行，你想去哪？
我想初次见面还是先看眼睛吧。
4.失眠过吗？你用什么办法对抗失眠？ 5.会不会做饭？你希望你的伴侣（OR未来的伴侣）会做饭吗？
8.如果可以重来，你最想改变的是什么？ 9.觉得自己是个自恋的人么? 10.2007年你最想实现的是什么？ 11월 13일 The last Unicorn故事梗概及同名动画片主题曲插曲一个很优美的现代童话故事，不完满却美丽纯真。
应该是两年以前写的。
这个故事是我一直用一只Unicorn作为msn logo的原因。
Peter Beagle的这个故事并不复杂：一只美丽优雅独角兽守护着自己的森林，她的存
在使林中树叶永不枯黄，雪花也从不在此飘落。她的生命不随时间流逝，像天空，像月亮 一样永恒。但有一天她听到两位猎人把自己称为世界上最后的独角兽，一只吟游四方的蝴 蝶又带给她关于Red Bull驱赶独角兽入海的传闻。她做出了决定，暂时舍弃自己平静的生活， 离开自己森林去寻找自己的同类。
在乡间小道上，她惊奇的发现，人类的眼睛，由于不再相信这种美丽的存在，已经无
法看见她头上高贵的角，只将她当作一匹骏马。但魔法师的眼睛却能揭示她的身份，睡眠 时一个女巫发现了她——这位女巫利用幻术将普通的动物幻化为神话生物巡回展览，不过运 气也给她带来了两种真实的魔法生物，邪恶残忍的Harpy以及这只善良的独角兽。独角兽 被关入笼内展览，女巫在她头上幻化出角以使凡人能够认知。与女巫同行却有一位魔法 师Schmendrick, 他被赐予永生的礼物，岁月不会在他身上留下痕迹，但他却无法掌控 自己所应有的力量，大多数时候他只能像一个卖艺人一样展示自己的小把戏,而非true magic Schmendrick认出了独角兽，他意识到自己的命运将因这美丽的生物改变。将因此实践自己 伟大导师的预言：他将成为真正的魔法师，但同时，失去自己的的永恒。他用一个 三流小偷的手法助独角兽脱离牢笼，独角兽则释放了囚笼中所有的生物，包括Harpy, 因为 它们是the two side of the same magic，同为超越永恒的存在，她无法看视对方为囚笼 所禁锢。Harpy对女巫进行了残酷的报复，女巫心安理得的接受自己的噩运，因为从来没有 女巫能够禁锢Harper，而这段禁锢，将成为Harpy永不能磨灭的阴影。Schmendrick目睹这 一切不禁多少有些不忍，他询问独角兽是否后悔，回答是："The unicorn never regrets, only sorrows." 他告诉独角兽，他所知的King Haggard和他的Red Bull,以及Red bull将所有独角兽驱
赶入海的故事。这也许正是他们所追寻的。在路上，他们又遭遇到一群以罗宾汉为榜样的 绿林大盗，Schmendrick被擒获。在大盗的聚会上，首领对自称魔法师的Schmendrick不屑 一顾，但Schmenrick却真的召唤来了罗宾汉，玛利亚和他的绿林豪杰，整个强盗群跟随罗 宾汉的幻影散去。当独角兽救出Schmendrick时，强盗们的厨娘，Molly一个四十多岁，已 经几乎丧失了生活意义的女子，认出了独角兽，想起她少女时的梦想，她一直企盼独角兽 能出现在自己的生活中，现在她的梦想实现了。 他们两人和独角兽经过King Haggard国内荒废，充满恐怖气氛的小镇，听到一个个关于
King Haggard的故事和关于他的末日的传言。当King Haggard的城堡已经不远时，Red Bull在夜幕中伴随着火焰出现。独角兽在这种生物面前毫无反抗能力，而Red Bull也只是 驱赶独角兽入海，并不试图伤害。Schmendrick知道只能将独角兽变成其它更卑微的生物，才 能在Red Bull前逃脱，但这是true magic，超越了他的能力。终于，Schmendric无意识 的召唤出变形的魔法，Red Bull面对瘫倒在地上银发的人类少女，无奈离去。无论在新的 躯壳作为人类有多么美丽，对于独角兽来说，这只是一个囚笼，囚禁着永恒的灵魂，肉体 将会日渐一日的老去，像所有人一样死亡。可这也许是发现秘密唯一的方法，他们只有前 进。 King Haggard的城堡处处呈现着死亡的气息，他的卫队只有四个老兵，他的王座如同
陵墓一样阴森，只有他的儿子Prince Lir，像所有童话中的王子一样，年轻，英俊。King Haggard看出了独角兽变化的人类女子——Lady Amalthea她现在的名字——的与众不同 ，在她的瞳孔中，他看到的是美丽的森林。他对自己前宫廷法师的警告置若罔闻，将这 一行三人留下。王子开始热恋Amalthea，为了追求她，他像所有故事中追求公主的王子一 样开始了一连串英雄业绩：和恶龙，巨人，黑骑士战斗，通过机关重重的迷宫，寻找失落 的神器。Schmendric则在取悦国王的同时，苦苦地寻找线索。Molly充当厨师，以女性的敏 锐向迷失的其他人提供帮助。而Amalthea，曾经对王子的求爱冷若冰霜，但人类的躯体使 她逐渐忘记真实的自己。当王子终于成为一位真正的英雄，Amalthea也忘记了自己 的身份，她像一个人类女孩一样去回报王子的爱。King Haggard也意识到这位女子是最后 的独角兽，在预言中她将同他的儿子一道为自己带来毁灭。但此时，他从她的瞳孔中再也 看不到森林和小溪，只有自己的映像。 Schmendric最终了解到King Haggard的故事，做为一个国王，他从任何事中都无法得
到快乐，无论是弄臣的笑谈还是盛大的晚宴。他曾经想体验一个父亲的快乐，偷来了Lir ，但很快又和其他事一样无聊。只有独角兽能让他快乐。于是，一个女巫为他召来了Red Bull,将所有独角兽驱赶到城堡下的海洋中。他只有在注视着独角兽的海洋时，注视着这群 永生，美丽优雅，富有活力的生命，才能快乐。女巫也预言了他的命运，将在最后的独角 兽和Prince Lir身上实现。在Molly帮助下最后的谜团揭开了，他们找到了通往Red Bull的 栖身之处的秘道。这时Amalthea却犹豫了，她要求不要让她回复自己的形体，她情愿和王 子相伴，即使代价是独角兽的永远监禁和自己终将如同凡人一样死去。 "My lady," he said, "I am a hero. ……Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."王子知道他的责任，也知 道他们必须承受命运。 当Red Bull第二次出现时，人类的形体已经无法迷惑这头火焰的生物。Schmendric
如己所愿成为一位真正的魔法师，他用咒语将独角兽变回原形。一如既往，独角兽无法挑 战Red Bull。在这不属于凡尘的美丽似乎已经注定要消逝，世界上所有的魔法也都无能为 力的时候，Lir实践了自己英雄的誓言，他在Red Bull面前倒下。独角兽像凡人一样发出哀 号，她已经无法像以前那样纯粹，作为永生的生命去看待凡尘。她感到凡人般的愤怒，悔 恨。以前她无法挑战Red Bull，但现在能。伴随着HAggard城堡的崩塌和他本人命运的终 结，独角兽重新回到世间。曾经的Amalthea以她的角碰触王子的身体，第一下使他复生， 第二下则寄托着自己的情意。故事到了结尾，独角兽的使命完成了，她会回到她的森林， 继续她的永生，但这一历程却让她懂得了悔恨，即使当人类成为兔子讲述的童话故事的主 角时，她仍将记住这一切。Schmendric成为了伟大的法师，但他将向凡人一样死亡。Lir将 成为新的King Haggard,他的王国将在废墟上重建，他也将在新的冒险中娶得美丽的公主 ，但曾经的爱人也永远离他而去，甚至没有告别的机会。Molly也许会成为Schmendric的妻 子，但独角兽的童话也会与她告别。这不是什么happy ending，实际上nothing end。每个 人都得到了一些，也失掉了一些。得到的无法弥补失去的痛，但却是命运。 这是一个旧瓶装新酒的故事，它有那些美丽完满的王子公主童话的影子，作者也在文
中引用了大量古代童话传说，不论是背景的描绘还是人物的对白。但这不是一个儿童的童 话，它不完满，故事的主角都为自己的命运苦苦追寻着，作出选择，但所有的选择，都是 一把双刃剑，相恋的甜美和迷失的痛苦，英雄的气度和失去爱人的无奈。在真实的世界， 这些每天都在发生。即使这个故事令人伤感，它仍然足够美丽和富有魅力。那只优雅勇敢 的独角兽，是书中最让人难以忘怀的角色。 这个故事经作者本人改编成动画片，很精彩的改编。它的同名电影也在摄制中，值得
期待。 动画片的主题曲
The last Unicorn
When the last eagle flies Over the last crumbling mountain And the last lion roars At the last dusty fountain In the shadow of the forest Though she may be old and worn They will stare unbelieving At the Last Unicorn
When the first breath of winter
Throught the flowers is icing
And you look to the north And a pale moon is rising And it seems like all is dying And would leave the world to mourn In the distance hear her laughter It's the Last Unicorn I'm alive... I'm alive When the last moon is cast
Over the last star of morning And the future is past Without even a last desparate warning Then look into the sky where through The cloudes a path is formed It's the Last Unicorn I'm alive... I'm alive. 其他插曲
Man's Road
Horizon rising up to meet the purple dawn
Dust demon screaming, bring an eagle to lead me on For in my heart I carry such a heavy load Here I am on Man's road, walking Man's road, walking Man's road I'm hungry, weary,
but I cannot lay me down The rain comes, dreary, but there's no shelter I have found It will be a long time till I find my abode Here I am on Man's road, walking Man's road Moon rising, disguising lonely streets in gay displays
The stars fade, the night shade falls and makes the world afraid It waits in silence for the sky to explode Here I am on Man's road, walking Man's road, walking Man's road Walking Man's road, walking Man's road, walking Man's road... In The Sea In the sea the fish have learned to fly
On a moonlit night on wings of silver As the enchanted stars sail serenely by Do they know where do unicorns go Where winged horses fly Narwhales lost at sea and never seen again Go, go and ask the magpie Where do unicorns go In the trees the birds have learned to speak
Gaily colored they keep their secrets In a parade of clouds playing hide and seek Do they know where do unicorns go Where winged horses fly Narwhales lost at sea and never seen again Does myth and mystery lie Where the unicorns go Now That I'm A Woman Once, I can't remember I was, long ago, someone strange I was innocent and wise And full of pain Now that I'm a woman
Everything is strange Once, when I was searching
Somewhere out of reach Far away In a place I could not find Or heart obey Now that I'm a woman
Everything is changed Everything is changed Everything has changed That's All I've Got To Say Lir: I've had time to write a book
About the way you act and look But I haven't got a paragraph Words are always getting in my way Anyway, I love you That's all I have to tell you That's all I've got to say And now, I'd like to make a speech
About the love that touches each But stumbling, I would make you laugh I feel as though my tongue were made of clay Anyway, I love you That's all I have to tell you I'm not a man of poetry
Music isn't one with me It runs from me It runs from me Lir: And I tried to write a symphony
Amalthea: Once when I was searching Lir: But I lost the melody Amalthea: Somewhere out of reach Lir: Alas I only finished half Amalthea: Far away Lir: And finish I suppose I never may Amalthea: In a place I could not find Lir: Anyway, I love you Amalthea: Or heart obey Lir: That's all I have to tell you Amalthea: Now that I'm a woman Lir: That's all I've got to say Amalthea: Now I know the way Lir: That's all I've got to say Amalthea: Now I know the way Together: That's all I've got to say The other wind摘抄从The other wind的摘抄。后来想想这部书的价值未必能够超过前面四部，尤其是The tomb of Autan和Tenahu。但作为地海系列的绝笔之作，倒是很清楚地展示了Le Guin自己对这个幻想世界的想法。感觉上故事本身寓言戏剧性质很强，强过小说性。Le Guin本人在Earthsea里面也喜欢借角色发发议论，不过她的文笔一而贯之很美，即使是说教议论也能吸引人，尤其是在你读过并喜欢她的前四个故事后。
最喜欢的是这一段，Tehanu的独白：
"I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can
breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed." 以下是一些摘抄
"The villagers of Gont and Hur-at-Hur remember what the wise men of Roke and
the priests of Karego forget," Azver said. "Yes, as a child I was told this tale, I think, or something like it. But the dragons had been forgotten in it. It told how the Dark Folk of the Archipelago broke their oath. We had all promised to forgo sorcery and the language of sorcery, speaking only our common tongue. We would name no names, and make no spells. We would trust to Segoy, to the powers of the Earth our mother, mother of the Warrior Gods. But the Dark Folk broke the covenant. They caught the Language of the Making in their craft, writing it in runes. They kept it, taught it, used it. They made spells with it, with the skill of their hands, with false tongues speaking the true words. So the Kargish people can never trust them. So says the tale." "On the other wind," said Irian. "The west beyond the west." She looked round at them all, scornful, irate. "Do you think we dragons fly only on the winds of this world? Do you think our freedom, for which we gave up all possessions, is no greater than that of the mindless seagulls? That our realm is a few rocks at the edge of your rich islands? You own the earth, you own the sea. But we are the fire of sunlight, we fly the wind! You wanted land to own. You wanted things to make and keep. And you have that. That was the division, the verw nadan. But you were not content with your share. You wanted not only your cares, but our freedom. You wanted the wind! And by the spells and wizardries of those oath-breakers, you stole half our realm from us, walled it away from life and light, so that you could live there forever. Thieves, traitors!" Azver the Patterner spoke. As he spoke, he looked into the aisles of the
trees across the clearing, as if following the slight movements of the leaves. "The ancients saw that the dragons' realm was not of the body only. That they could fly… outside of time, it may be… And envying that freedom, they followed the dragons' way into the west beyond the west. There they claimed part of that realm as their own. A timeless realm, where the self might be forever. But not in the body, as the dragons were. Only in spirit could men be there… So they made a wall which no living body could cross, neither man nor dragon. For they feared the anger of the dragons. And their arts of naming laid a great net of spells upon all the western lands, so that when the people of the islands die, they would come to the west beyond the west and live there in the spirit forever. "I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed." "Well, you had the sense to build your Great House here," the Patterner said, smiling. "But we built it wrong," Onyx said. "All we build, we build wrong."
"So we must knock it down," said Seppel.
"No," said Gamble. "We're not dragons. We do live in houses. We have to have
some walls, at least." "So long as the wind can blow through the windows," said Azver.
"And who will come in the doors?" asked the Doorkeeper in his mild voice.
"Once when my lord the Archmage was here with me in the Grove, he said to me he had spent his life learning how to choose to do what he had no choice but to do." "I wish he were here now," said Onyx.
"He's done with doing," the Doorkeeper murmured smiling.
"Agni Lebannen," said the dragon to the king.
"Eldest," the king said to the dragon.
"Aissadan verw nadannan," said the vast, hissing voice, like a sea of
cymbals. Beside Lebannen, Brand the Summoner of Roke stood planted solidly. He
repeated the dragon's words in the Speech of the Making, and then said them in Hardic: "What was divided is divided." The Patterner stood near them, his hair bright in the brightening light. He
said, "What was built is broken. What was broken is made whole." "Tell me of the Patterner." She smiled. "Seserakh calls him the Warrior. She says only a warrior would
fall in love with a dragon." "They're all gone. There are no dragons left in Havnor or the western
islands. Onyx said: as that shadow place and all the shadows in it rejoined the world of light, so they regained their true realm." "We broke the world to make it whole," Ged said. 地海摘介很久没有写blog了，这验证了一个事实，blog是无聊的时候才写的…………
更新一些东西，从很久很久以前未名的个人文集里面捡的，不管的话以后或许找不到了。
首先是一个基于地海三部曲写的一点综述性质的东西：
注意的是由于当时没有读过Tehanu和The other wind以及Tales from earthsea。所以有些描述其实是不太符合的，不过这些都相对来说无关紧要了。Ursula自己写三部曲时估计也不是想的特别清楚，在Tales from earthsea前言里她自己就说过也不能保证所有的作品细节都能够自治。
Earth Sea Trilogy——地海三部曲，是美国作家Ursula K.Le Guin(娥苏拉 勒瑰恩)的 作品。Earth Sea系列目前共出六本 最早三本成书于六十年代末七十年代初分别名为 A Wizard of Earthsea(地海巫师)，The Tombs of Atuan(阿图安之墓)，The Fathest Shore（遥远的海岸），另外，她还出版了一本包含五个故事的作品——地海故事集。19 90年，地海系列的续作 Tehanu(特哈努)出版，其后于2002年，The Other Wind完成。 Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. -The Creation of Ea Ursula在她的作品中构造了一个由群岛组成，孤悬于海上的一个世界，作为一部奇幻小
说，这并非我们真实的世界，巫师，巨龙，群岛间劳作的人民，古老的True Speech，死 亡的国度,黑暗力量的墓穴，将引导你进入这个神奇的国度。 The true speech
在地海的创世史上，据传当Seroy(他的地位，嗯，不用说了吧)从浩瀚的海洋中升起第一
座岛屿，创造出万物，强大的巨龙以及人类之时，他使用the old speech( the true speech)，为世界上万事万物命名，直至今日，巨龙仍使用这种语言。今天，每个人，每 个物体与true speech都有着天然的联系，万物都有自己的True Name,包括每个人。True name为人一生中最大的秘密（简单的说，当某人的true name为掌握法术之人所知并在 他面前说出，此人将不能对知晓其姓名之人使用魔法）：当他少年时，会由一位法师举 行一次仪式，找出他的true name，从此，这名字将伴随他一生。地海的主角，大法师（ Archmage）,龙之主（Dragonlord）Ged,其真名一生仅为六人双龙所知晓，他的常用名为 Spraowhawk。当然，这主要是对于掌握了力量的法师而言，对于普通人，其实并无所谓。 Wizard & Sorceer
对于这两个词，熟悉dnd的朋友千万不要用dnd中的概念去理解其意义，不错，他们都是
施法者，但在地海中，法术，法师有着自己独特的地位。 当古老的语言在人类中失落时，法术也随之出现，施法者学习 true speech，通晓万物
与每个人类的true name，从这些字句中，他们获得了强大的力量：创造美丽的幻象以至 创造真实的物体，救人于生死之间，，召唤自然的力量，控制动物甚至人类………… 强大的巫师们并不疯狂，他们懂得自己的力量对这个世界的影响。他们明了万物需保持 平衡。他们所要学习的不仅仅是使用魔法，还有因何使用魔法，何时使用？在智慧之岛 Island of Wise——Roke，法师们组成了Council of Mage,建立了法术学校，由九名最 杰出的法师掌管：Master Doorkeeper, Master Namer ,Master Summoner ,Master Changer, Master Patterner ,Master Chanter ,Master Herbal ,Master Windkey以及T he Archmage —— Warder of Roke，除Archmage,Master Doorkeeper,Master Namer外 ，其余六位可以理解为法术的六个不同的方面的代表人物。Master Doorkeeper掌管学校 的大门，他知道所有曾经在Roke学习的法师的名字，给予他们最初的指导，也是宣布他 们获得毕业资格之人。Master Namer住在校外的一座高塔中，他的任务是寻找The True Name ，他从文献中，从种种方法，夜以继日的寻找知识。 法师们懂得世界的哲学，例如Changer这一学派的高级法术可以使人真正的改变万物，不
仅仅只是制造幻象，而是改变本质，连同True Name,这一法术可以点石成金，但它也是 最受限制的法术之一，因为“即使只改变一粒沙子，也改变了世界”。Ged的老师曾经这 样教导： "This is a rock; tolk in the True Speech," he said, looking mildly up at
Ged now. "A bit of the stone of which Roke Isle is made, a little bit of the dry land on which men live. It is itself. It is part of the world. By the Illusion-Change you can make it look like a diamond -or a flower or a fly or an eye or a flame-" The rock flickered from shape to shape as he named them, and returned to rock. "But that is mere seeming. Illusion fools the beholder's senses; it makes him see and hear and feel that the thing is changed. But it does not change the thing. To change this rock into a jewel, you must change its true name. And to do that, my son, even to so small a scrap of the world, is to change the world. It can be done. Indeed it can be done. It is the art of the Master Changer, and you will learn it, when you are ready to learn it. But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow..." 法师们谨慎的使用自己的力量，他们的法术主要用于改变天气，操纵风向（地海由岛屿
组成），为人们修补日常用具，救治疾病，Ged的最初导师——Orgin曾与一座山交谈， 平息了其怒火，避免了一场地震。也有少许法师曾与强大的巨龙战斗，保护人民。 法术可以使人超越生死的界限，进入死亡的国度，召唤亡者的阴影，甚至追求永生。在 地海中，存在一个死亡的国度，（The Dead Realm,The Dry Land）当人死去之时（法师 们被教导尽可能治愈人的伤痛，但当大限到来，应由其自由的死去），人的true name将 成为一具空洞的躯壳，成为在死亡国度中游荡的阴影。但其生命的本质则将融入万物之 中，在某种意义上永生。而要用法术延续自己的生命，在法师看来则是违反了自然的规 律，同时，这一行为也将对魔法本身造成严重的影响，施法者本身实际处于一种非生非 死的状态。从The Farest Shore中，Ged与一位妄求永生的法师的最后对话中可以理解一 些： "Where do they come to you, Cob? Where is it that you are?" "Between the worlds." "But that is neither life nor death. What is life, Cob?" "Power." "What is love?" "Power," the blind man repeated heavily, hunching up his shoulders. "What is light?" "Darkness!" "What is your name?" "I have none." "All in this land bear their true name." "Tell me yours, then!" "I am named Ged. And you?" The blind man hesitated, and said, "Cob." "That was your use-name, not your name. Where is your name? Where is the truth of you? Did you leave it in Paln where you died? You have forgotten much, O Lord of the Two Lands. You have forgotten light, and love, and your own name." "I have your name now, and power over you, Ged the Archmage- Ged who was Archmage when he was alive!" "My name is no use to you," Ged said. "You have no power over me at all. I am a living man; my body lies on the beach of Selidor, under the sun, on the turning earth. And when that body dies, I will be here: but only in name, in name alone, in shadow. Do you not understand? Did you never understand, you who called up so many shadows from the dead, who summoned all the hosts of the perished, even my lord Erreth-Akbe, wisest of us all? Did you not understand that he, even he, is but a shadow and a name? His death did not diminish life. Nor did it diminish him. He is there - there, not here! Here is nothing, dust and shadows. There, he is the earth and sunlight, the leaves of trees, the eagle's flight. He is alive. And all who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would not have death. You lost death, you lost life, in order to save yourself. Yourself! Your immortal self! What is it? Who are you?" "I am myself. My body will not decay and die-" "A living body suffers pain, Cob; a living body grows old; it dies. Death is the price we pay for our life and for all life." "I do not pay it! I can die and in that moment live again! I cannot be killed; I am immortal. I alone am myself forever!" "Who are you, then?" "The Immortal One." "Say your name "The King." "Say my name. I told it to you but a minute since. Say my name!" "You are not real. You have no name. Only I exist " "You exist: without name, without form. You cannot see the light of day; you cannot see the dark. You sold the green earth and the sun and stars to save yourself. But you have no self. All that which you sold, that is yourself. You have given everything for nothing. And so now you seek to draw the world to you, all that light and life you lost, to fill up your nothingness. But it cannot be filled. Not all the songs of earth, not all the stars of heaven, could fill your emptiness." 在Roke学习的学生先作为普通的学生学习三年，获得学徒的称号，经两年的学习如果合 格可以拿到法师杖，获得Wizard的称号。以后大多作为各个地区的法师，或为领主服务 ，或为人民服务，他们一般都享有崇高的地位。Roke的法师几乎均为男性，女性wizard 只有过一位，在地海故事集中记载着这个故事。 但在地海中还有另一种施法者存在，他们被称为Sorcerer，绝大部分是女性，又被特称
为witch,她们也懂得一些old speech,但力量相当有限，她们也不懂的使用魔法所应懂得 的守则，不过她们微弱的力量也不需担心。与wizard相比，她们没有接受正式的训练， 大都是世代互传。每个小村都有一名Sorcerer，她们为村民工作，但不能得到与wizard 相当的尊敬，有一句谚语：“As weak as women’magic,as wick as women’magic”。 并非所有地海的岛屿中都有魔法的存在，法师主要见于围绕着地海中心——Hanvor的岛 屿中，在偏远的南方，文明程度与中心地区相去甚远，也没有施法者的存在。在西方的A utan,由Godking统治，神权与君权合一，对法术采取不相信以及排斥的态度。 地理 地海的主区称为Archipelago，其岛屿大致可以以Havnor为中心,环状分布。
Havnor 地海最大岛屿，其上的Great Port为一美丽的城市，在地海之二中，Ged这样描述：
But the fairest of them all, maybe, is Havnor, the great land at the center of the world. In the heart of Havnor on a broad bay full of ships is the City Havnor. The towers of the city are built of white marble. The house of every prince and merchant has a tower, so they rise up one above the other. The roofs of the houses are red tile, and all the bridges over the canals are covered in mosaic work, red and blue and green. And the flags of the princes are all colors, flying from the white towers. On the highest of all the towers the Sword of Erreth-Akbe is set, like a pinnacle, skyward. When the sun rises on Havnor it flashes first on that blade and makes it bright, and when it sets the Sword is golden still above the evening, for a while. 其中的Erreth-Akbe是地海历史上之英雄，他的剑所置之塔也为The King Of All The
Isles的王座所在地，但此王座已空置800年之久，传说中只有寻回The Ring of Erreth-Akbe,重组The Rune of Peace，地海才能结束无王的时代，迎来和平与秩序。 Roke Havnor之南的海域称为The Inmost Sea，其中坐落着智慧之岛——Roke。Roke之
上的小镇Thwil中有著名的法师学校，地海中最富智慧者聚集之处。 "Welcome to this house, lad," the doorkeeper said, and without
saying more led him through halls and corridors to an open court far inside the walls of the building. The court was partly paved with stone, but was roofless, and on a grassplot a fountain played under young trees in the sunlight. There Ged waited alone some while. He stood still, and his heart beat hard, for it seemed to him that he felt presences and powers at work unseen about him here, and he knew that this place was built not only of stone but of magic stronger than stone. He stood in the innermost room of the House of the Wise, and it was open to the sky. Then suddenly he was aware of a man clothed in white who watched him through the falling water of the fountain. As their eyes met, a bird sang aloud in the branches of the tree. In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves: it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight. 此上是Ged初入Roke的一段描写。
Roke岛的北端坐落着Isolate Tower，学院中Master Namer所居地。
Roke岛有强大的魔法所保护，岛周围的魔法风可以拒绝任何邪恶的来访。除非是最强大 的巨龙，一般龙类也无法突破屏障。 Low Torning , Ninety Isles& Pendor The Inmost Sea的东面，在Hosk 和Ensmer之间，散布着一系列小型的岛屿，岛屿间海峡
狭窄，临近岛屿也会随海潮起伏而分合，此间渔民人人会划船，家庭主妇坐船互相拜访 ，小贩以船桨击浪叫卖。十至二十个小岛聚成一个镇，最西边为Low Torning，Ged在从R oke毕业后就任此处的Wizard。Low Torning以西岛屿名为Pendor，这里领主曾为海盗， 战争贩子。后来一条老龙从西面飞来，烈火将领主及岛民化为灰烬。此后老龙盘踞此岛 ，生下九条龙，对Ninety Isles居民构成了严重威胁。Ged一方面为尽自己保护一方之责 任，另一方面为摆脱长久以来的阴影，挑战巨龙，迫使其立下有生之年不西侵之誓言。 以下为Ged见到老龙的情景： When he was all afoot his scaled head, spikecrowned and triple-tongued,
rose higher than the broken tower's height, and his taloned forefeet rested on the rubble of the town below. His scales were grey-black, catching the daylight like broken stone. Lean as a hound he was and huge as a hill. Ged stared in awe. There was no song or tale could prepare the mind for this sight. Almost he stared into the dragon's eyes and was caught, for one cannot look into a dragon's eyes. He glanced away from the oily green gaze that watched him, and held up before him his staff, that looked now like a splinter, like a twig. Osskil
北部岛屿，其上的Court of the Terrenon重重保护的地宫中，塔之基石上，Terrenon石
置于其中，Ged在逃避阴影的旅程中来到这里，塔主的夫人，将他带到石前： “It was made before Segoy raised the islands of the world from the Open
Sea. It was made when the world itself was made, and will endure until the end of the world. Time is nothing to it. If you lay your hand upon it and ask a question of it, it will answer, according to the power that is in you. It has a voice, if you know how to listen. It will speak of things that were, and are, and will be. It told of your coming, long before you came to this land. Will you ask a question of it now?” 这是全能之石，也是灾祸之石，它掌控创世前的暗黑之力，诱惑和腐化一切试图使用它的人。
幸而这太古之力被牢牢束缚在此处。 Enlad
北方美丽的岛屿，但最为人们所熟知的是王族的世袭，先祖为Morred，地海另一位英雄
，在Erreth-Akbe之前。据歌谣The Deed of Morred所载，他曾身着白袍，架着无桨的长 舟，离开Havorn，在春天的Solea岛上樱桃园中，与美丽的Elfarran——The Ring of Erreth-Akbe的最早主人——相会，爱情以Morred的死，Enlad的废墟，巨大的海浪吞没S olea岛上的花园结束。Morred的儿子Serriadh开创Enlad王族之世系。在Ged的最后一次 远航中，Enlad的王子Arren，与他同行。 “You are the son of the Prince of Enlad and the Enlades," the Archmage
said, "heir of the Principality of Morred. There is no older heritage in all Earthsea, and none fairer. I have seen the orchards of Enlad in the spring, and the golden roofs of Berila...” Gont
东北海上，孤山之岛，Ged的故乡。这是一个美丽的小岛，大河在谷中流荡，高山上覆盖
着茂密的森林。Re Albi小镇，意为“鹰巢”，居住着法师Ogion，Ged的导师，来自遥远 的Autan的尊贵的女士Tenar，也曾是他的学生。Ogion对世界原理的了解不亚于Roke的大 师们，但他终生热爱着Gont的森林，他没有在Roke供职过。他在此赋予Ged以真名： On the day the boy was thirteen years old, a day in the early splendor of
autumn while still the bright leaves are on the trees, Ogion returned to the village from his rovings over Gont Mountain, and the ceremony of Passage was held. The witch took from the boy his name Duny, the name his mother had given him as a baby. Nameless and naked he walked into the cold springs of the Ar where it rises among rocks under the high cliffs. As he entered the water clouds crossed the sun's face and great shadows slid and mingled over the water of the pool about him. He crossed to the far bank, shuddering with cold but walking slow and erect as be should through that icy, living water. As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged. The Kargad Empire
在Gont之西，统治Kargad Land四岛：Karego-At, Atuan, Hur-at-Hur, Atnini。其居民
白肤金发，性格粗暴，爱好征服与战争，国家由Godking统治，这是一个排斥法师的国度 ，人民仍保留对原始的黑暗力量的崇拜。他们称其为The Nameless One，在专门供奉着 它的The Tomb of Autan中，有高耸的The Stone Of the Hall以及地下幽深恐怖的迷宫 ——远古黑暗之力的居所，不容任何光亮。其最高牧师采取类似西藏转世灵童的选择方 法，被选中的儿童称为The Eaten One，她将被剥夺自己的真名，接受最严酷的训练，其 中包括献祭时所应该掌握的舞蹈，以及默记只有她和少数几名次阶牧师所能进入的迷宫 深处的路径。在最深处据传有Erreth-Akbe之戒的一半——Erreth-Akbe在此处与High Priest作战，戒指损毁。但掌握国家最高统治权的Godking也在附近设立有自己的庙宇， Godking意图逐渐抹去人们对The Nameless One的记忆，使自己神君合一的地位不受挑战。 Nameless One的神殿： Behind the Hall and encircling the whole crest of the hill ran a massive
wall of rock, laid without mortar and half fallen down in many places. Inside the loop of the wall several black stones eighteen or twenty feet high stuck up like huge fingers out of the earth. Once the eye saw them it kept returning to them. They stood there full of meaning, and yet there was no saying what they meant. There were nine of them. One stood straight, the others leaned more or less, two had fallen. They were crusted with gray and orange lichen as if splotched with paint, all but one, which was naked and black, with a dull gloss to it. It was smooth to the touch, but on the others, under the crust of lichen, vague carvings could be seen, or felt with the fingers - shapes, signs. These nine stones were the Tombs of Atuan. They had stood there, it was said, since the time of the first men, since Earthsea was created. They had been planted in the darkness when the lands were raised up from the ocean's depths. They were older by far than the God-kings of Kargad, older than the Twin Gods, older than light. They were the tombs of those who ruled before the world of men came to be, the ones not named, and she who served them had no name. 地下的迷宫：
All the tunnels were the same, crossing and recrossing. She kept careful
count of her turnings and gassings, and recited Thar's directions to herself, though she knew them perfectly. For it would not do to get lost in the Labyrinth. In the Undertomb and the short passages around it, Kossil or Thar might find her, or Manan come seeking for her, for she had taken him there several times. Here, none of them had ever been: only she herself. Little good it would do her if they came to the Undertomb and called aloud, and she was lost in some spiraling tangle of tunnels half a mile away. She imagined how she might hear the echo of voices calling her, echoing down every corridor, and she would try to come to them, but, lost, would only become farther lost. So vividly did she imagine this that she stopped, thinking she heard a distant voice calling. But there was nothing. And she would not get lost. She was very careful; and this was her place, her own domain. The powers of the dark, the Nameless Ones, would guide her steps here, just as they would lead astray any other mortal who dared enter the Labyrinth of the Tombs. Iffish
东南部的群岛，Ged在学院唯一的朋友——Vetch的故乡，还有他可爱的妹妹Yarrow。
The South Reacb
边远的南方分布着Lorbanery等不少岛屿。但其中有一支民族，他们住在海中的巨木筏上
，将一生绝大部分花在海上，只有在每年的秋天到陆地上采伐树木，修补木筏。他们随 季节南北迁移，冬季不同的木筏会分开来，在春季他们汇聚到一起，近百条木筏组成一 座浮动的城市，这是婚嫁的季节，他们欢庆Long Dance——地海人民的共同节日。他们 自称为——The Children Of The Sea。以下是Enlad的王子，Arren的见闻： They married very young. Bluecrab, the boy tattooed with his namesake, and
the pretty girl Albatross were man and wife, though he was just seventeen and she two years younger; there were many such marriages between the rafts. Many babies crept and toddled about the rafts, tied by long leashes to the four posts of the central shelter, all crawling into it in the heat of the day and sleeping in wriggling heaps. The older children tended the younger, and men and women shared in all the work. All took their turn at gathering the great, brown-leaved seaweeds, the nilgu of the Roads, fringed like fern and eighty or a hundred feet long. All worked together at pounding the nilgu into cloth and braiding the coarse fibers for ropes and nets; at fishing and drying the fish and shaping whale-ivory into tools, and all the other tasks of the rafts. But there was always time for swimming and for talking, and never a time by which a task must be finished. There were no hours: only whole days, whole nights. After a few such days and nights it seemed to Arren that he had lived on the raft for time uncountable, and Obehol was a dream, and behind that were fainter dreams, and in some other world he had lived on land and been a prince in Enlad. 这些居民与世无争，悠然自得，也许就是作者对“小国寡民”的具象化。
The West Reacb 包括Selidor ,Dragon’Run，等
Selidor 极西岛屿，当Enlad的人在开始儿童的童话时，常有“As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived a prince...”之语。这里没有人 类的足迹，却是巨龙的天堂。这里也是地海中种种传奇的发生地。伟大的Erreth-Akbe当 他拥有能统治地海之力时，他放弃了王位，孤身来到遥远的Selidor，向巨龙挑战，他的 盔甲在此处散落，他的身躯在这里长眠。当Ged初次来到Selidor，他惊奇的发现龙类当 谈起Erreth-Akbe时，它们好像是在谈论一条龙，而非一个人。后来Ged在这里迈入死亡 的国度，实现他最后的辉煌。以下为他第二次来到Selidor所见： The dunes ran inland, low and grassy, for half a mile or so, and then there
were lagoons, thick with sedge and salt-reeds, and beyond those, low hills lay yellow-brown and empty to the end of sight. Beautiful and desolate was Selidor. Nowhere on it was there any mark of man, his work or habitation. There were no beasts to be seen, and the reedfilled lakes bore no flocks of gulls or wild geese or any bird. The North Reabo
Enlad之北，据传海中有巨鲸，即使是Ged也未曾泛舟此地。
10월 13일 我看过的书（八）美国漫画 说句实话，对于美国漫画我基本上没有发言权。唯一看过得可怜兮兮的几部都是国内爱好者拿来翻译的，因为如此，所以量不会太大，现在在电骡上拖Neil Gailman的Sandman，现在还剩1/5，运气好的话今天晚上能搞定。
美国的漫画工业比日本或许差一点，但也家大业大。DC,Marvel几个大公司的漫画真是像流水线一样，正传不够搞前传，别传，还要搞平行宇宙，超级英雄一大堆，便搞个正义联盟玩关公战秦琼。X-man，超人这些东西不知道画了多少年了也不疲倦。说句实话，大部分画出来的都是垃圾，我在一家店里曾经翻阅过一些最新的漫画，基本上都是打群架，无聊透顶。
不过后来断断续续看了一些国内翻译的东西，包括一些蛮王柯南，星球大战，dnd冒险故事的片断，这些都比较一般。也就星球大战的几篇还算是有很强的故事性和张力，可惜翻译的有限。另外看过英文的Hedge Knight，属于抄小说的二流漫画，不值一提。比较不错的两篇有一个Marvel出的超人——红色之子（3集），以及DC的Neil Geilman的Sandman（睡魔）前四集，下面随便写一点。
超人--红色之子是个俄国佬写的，估计分类上可以归入平行宇宙题材一类。了解超人故事的大概都知道超人是氪星人，年幼时随飞船坠落在美国小镇。这篇写飞船晚落12小时，着地点位于苏联乌克兰集体农庄。于是超人成长成为一个信仰共产主义的战士，他也曾坚信自己的理想和选择，认为不应该因为自己天生神力而接任领袖。他接掌权力都出于看到在苏联的体制下，人民缺衣少食，才认为能力多大，责任多大挺身而出的。而在他的超能力之下，全球几乎实现乌托邦，一切都在监控之中，“所有成年人都有一份工作，所有孩子都有一份兴趣”。美国的民主体制在不可战胜的红色超人前几乎崩溃，唯有靠强人卢瑟（正传中超人的宿敌）上台，取消一切国际贸易，监管“每一个美元的用途”，才能勉强与之抗衡。最后卢瑟之利用了红色超人意识深处的对个人自由选择权的尊重才战胜超人。整个故事的框架中，超人式的共产主义战胜了资本主义，之后虽被取代，但取而代之的，却是建立在超人共产主义基础上卢瑟式的强权精英政治。这是个乌托邦的故事，但作者自始自终都采取着申谨的态度，对于非正即邪的商业美漫实在是难得的。
Sandman则完全是Neil Geilman式的，Neil的杰出之处，在于他能够把种种神话，巫术传说和现代的流行文化结合在一起，造成一种奇诡绝伦的场景.Sandman的前四集，不到100页的短短篇幅，就出现了大量的典故桥断，包括神秘的召唤法阵，古代秘密的恶魔姓名，该隐和亚伯，命运三女神，地狱之门，晨星路西法等，以及流行文化中的约翰康斯坦丁，天命博士，正义联盟（均美漫人物），还有着改头换面的流行歌曲，以及对经典动画石中剑的小小致敬。必须佩服他的渊博和将毫不相连的事物糅合在一起的能力。美漫特有的插画，也切合他鬼才的风格。我也喜欢他作品奇诡后面的深邃，Sandman第四集中睡梦之王面对地狱百万强者威胁时，说：“当你们失去梦想天堂的能力之时，地狱还有什么伟力？”，实在令人拍案叫绝，这是对梦想最为精彩的诠释。
9월 13일 我看过的书（七）——Epic Fantasy(Lord of the Ring and The Song of Ice and Fire) Epic Fantasy 史诗奇幻，是欧美奇幻文学中最为古老的类别。顾名思义，史诗奇幻常以奇幻世界中列国兴衰征战，善恶冲撞为背景，模仿古典史诗的叙事来构造整个故事的框架。这一流派当为托尔金开创，其代表作Lord of Ring 被奉为史诗奇幻乃至当代奇幻文学的开山之作。
史诗奇幻通常都有一个完善的架空世界，魔法往往是必不可少的要素，虽然对作者来说，为了避免毫无意义且枯燥的魔法大战，并且保留魔法应有的神秘感，魔法在世界上并不常见并且使用上受到限制，如Lord of Ring中，Gandalf许多时候是通过自己的丰富知识，口才和影响力来解决问题，而不是使用魔力。科技一般被设置在中世纪的水平，一方面是用来契合社会背景，一方面，描写一个魔法和科技并存的社会，至少迄今为止，实践证明并不是一个好主意。社会结构通常等同欧洲的中世纪，王国，世袭家族，以战争为职业的骑士都是史诗奇幻中必不可少的背景。这点在现代的史诗奇幻Song of Ice and Fire中表现得淋漓尽致，读者可以从书中找到欧洲中世纪许多方面的对应物，尤其是英国的玫瑰战争时期。最后，史诗奇幻的永恒主题：善恶二元的征战。Lord of Ring中来自西方的人类和精灵联合对付Dark Lord Sauron的邪恶势力是典型的代表。Song of Ice and Fire虽然弱化了善恶对抗，集中描写列国兴亡以及英雄恶棍，但其暗线中，仍然少不了对善恶对抗的描写（光与暗，人类与The others）。
史诗奇幻对故事情节，背景描述的兴趣常常大于对人物的塑造。正因如此，史诗奇幻中对人物的塑造以现代文学的标准来衡量的话，不免有单薄和脸谱化之嫌。又特别重视主角，常常对小人物有所忽略。如Lord of Ring中，精灵公主Arwen仅仅是为主要人物Aragon而存在，本身只是一个愿为爱情舍弃一切的符号。Song of Ice and Fire，虽然着力于多角度塑造人物，但人物为情节推动的痕迹相当重。
史诗奇幻吸引人的地方在于它的大气和波澜起伏的故事情节，以及，在某种意义上的脱离现实。在细致描写生活的作品之外，人们总需要另外一种感受，另外一种能够暂时脱离现实的琐碎，去在一个想象的世界之中，在大尺度上感受时代的脉搏而不受现代人类社会种种束缚的制约。那个文明并不发达，但却容易带来种种浪漫的幻想的中世纪则是最好的模板，魔法及种种超能力的设计则进一步扩大了幻想的空间。在史诗奇幻之前，曾经有童话，神话以及史诗。史诗奇幻通过现代的写作方式，能够克服童话的过于单纯，神话体系上的不完全，史诗主题上过于简单之不足，来延续它的先祖在人类想象空间中曾经扮演的重要位置。虽然史诗奇幻在今日文学面前难免失色，但我们无法忘记，我们的先祖曾经在神话的浸润中长大，一部部伟大的史诗，在吟游诗人的传颂中曾是领主农民最好的娱乐。即使在今天，我们也需要一个存在龙的世界。
Elrond王在召开的Council中曾经回忆数千年前，在来自努曼努尔的人王和西方神秘之地的精灵君主的旗帜下，无法计数的英雄和王子集结在Mountain of Doom前，与邪恶君主Sauron战斗来确保中土世界的自由。他永远无法忘记这一战的雄壮和荣耀。Song Of Ice and Fire中，年轻的John Snow心中，北方有延绵数百里，700英尺高坚不可摧的肃立在凌厉北风下的冰墙，黑衣的守夜人背负着庄严的誓言，默默的巡逻在冰冷的长墙上保卫七国免受随严冬而来的野人，异鬼的侵袭，“We are the watchers on the wall, the fire that burn against the cold, the horn that wake the sleeper, the shield that guard the realm of man……”。
这些，都是书中的人物以及读者心中，梦飞起的地方。
9월 8일 我看过的书（六）——水浒传 忽然想写几句关于水浒的话。
四大名著里面，水浒之独特，在于其暴力以及暴力逻辑之后的两个字，快活。
不提营造纤丽美感的红楼，三国虽写征战，然而战争之残酷触目惊心都为运筹帷幄以及夸张的单挑所掩盖，几十万士兵的性命，大多数时只不过是沙盘上的数字。西游中的战斗，更多的具有戏剧色彩，更常常被深爱恶搞得吴承恩添上几笔笑料。要谈真正的暴力场面和所谓的暴力美学，恐怕只有到水浒里面去找。鲁提辖三拳打死镇关西，武松血溅鸳鸯楼均是其中最为经典的片断，极为畅快淋漓。
在今日的道德标准下很难评价水浒中的暴力中残酷无情的一面，虽然中国古代小说中不乏在残酷上过之的描写（如荡寇志），但唯有水浒的文学价值能让读者又爱又恨。在享受鲁提辖行侠仗义的同时，也要能忍受武二郎在鸳鸯楼上杀掉无辜的丫环，以及李逵在江洲城中不分青红排头砍去的场面。而且，书中的主角们从来不为自己行为忏悔——这是金庸书中常见的段子。然而金庸的人物读多了让人感到虚伪，水浒反而传达出一种质朴，我也很难讲清是我本性残暴还是事实如此。
但暴力只是水浒的表象，真正的水浒是快活的水浒。大碗喝酒，大块吃肉，论秤分金银，整套穿衣服。这强盗式的宣言恐怕比什么都能概括水浒的中心。如果再进一步阐述的话，加上不服官司管和替天行道也就够了。除掉凑数的之外，英雄们在上山的过程中，都不同程度的通过实施暴力和喝酒吃肉来实践了这个宣言。那对于他们来说，是人生最不掩饰，最不委屈求全，最自由奔放的时刻，这对于人类尤其是青年男子无疑是梦寐以求的童话。所以，才有了书中无数艺术感染力极强的桥断，典型如林教头风雪山神庙。
但水浒的快活在一个个英雄身上，随着他们坐上忠义堂的交椅便嘎然而止，只有李逵是唯一的例外，他被李卓吾称赞为赤子。
或许因为水浒的快活的确是一个童话，即使那组成童话的一个个残酷张扬苍凉的故事让人觉得质朴真实。
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