古典得令人发指！ □ 与曾孙语：奈米西斯福音书 [印度]迪利普·嘉韦利 殷晓媛译

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与曾孙语：奈米西斯福音书

[印度]迪利普·嘉韦利

殷晓媛译

勿惑本心。须知信徒并非笃信于吾等，不外关切先人遗泽而已。而我辈亦非负有救世使命，惟令王侯与诸天所观瞻之世间富庶多姿耳。人非赖粢食而生者。其营舍造第，或门庭逼仄、檐下窘促，或高堂邃宇、檐牙入云。凡楼宇无不以层观为奇。故唇舌必以犀角象齿、翡翠珠玑为辞也。

苍茫万代，烽烟相继，既已似内库虚空，又为骁勇群雄、名耀青史，凯旋英雄所盈。我等所承者，远见之士、无道之君、揭竿之民，及穰穰群氓而已。借此一窥浮世万国之奥秘。目之所瞩，耳之所闻，莫非天佑。自由之所如，细细芥子[1]，万千物中，其形甚微。一俟长成，丛簇丰衍，枝干壮硕。神思之凤、语辞之雉、施为之鹊，无不筑巢其上而栖之。

若论真知名理，不可轻信先贤所言，惟民主表决可为奎臬。茕茕不群者，天涯自逐。倒行逆施者，见憎于侪。为公心执棋者，国之仁兄贤子也。王者有百马，一马失于迷津，断无弃余九十九而寻之之理。

谆谆之言，务请濯目洗耳听之。

瀚海行舟者，所获必非虾蟹之流，其虏而归者鲸之脂油，鲛之美馔也。

莽林漂泊者，所撷绝无杂叶薄花弱果，劲骏雪松、清奇柚木、希贵檀木，香脂及安息香。奉于其室，乃使芳馥。

新郎将至，华酌使陈；太子驾临，珍奇满席；闻汝将诞，吾等集西赆南琛于籝椟而候之！

广厦林立间，且观钢铁：其坚其韧，草木岩石莫能同日而语。再观塑料：一朝赋形，终身不移，犹凤凰之涅槃重生、永无绝期矣！路西法窃光而见放于地狱，普罗米修斯盗火而永世以肝饲鹰。而吾等燧地狱之肝而为电。晶天皦日，夜乃见窃，月虚夜沉之时，吾等乃化夜为昼。骄阳灼灼，安知电光幽凉。北风熊咆龙吟日，此物乃雪中送炭。原子裂变，巨能化生，魑魅窜于世间，继而埋之壤未。万物之理，铭之微晶片间，此真至圣先师也！虽万象萧疏，知汝之必至。盖吾等之母、之姊、之妻及豆蔻女子之冷冻卵子，乃雪藏于世间也。

既知汝之必至，莫问飞鸟、繁花、青草与星斗何在。

飞鸟羽化，遁形而去。

繁花纹采，朝夕乃逝。

青草萋萋，亦无不凋。

皎皎星斗，终如百马之王，失其一，竟未曾寻之。

译者注：

[1]《圣经》Matthew 13:31, 32; Mark 4:30–32; Luke 13:18, 19：“It is like a grain of mustard seed,” He said, “which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth, yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof.” 

附原文:

For My Great grand Child: Gospel of Nemesis

Let not your head be troubled. He who believes in us believes not in us but in what his inheritance will be. We did not come to save the world but to make it abundant for lords and kings andheavens to behold it. For man does not live by bread alone. Either make the house small and its roof low or make the house big and its roof high, for the house is known by the number of storeys it has. Therefore out of richness of the treasure the tongue speaks.

Generations preceding us had left us coffers emptied by wars and filled with epics of glories of the heroes who won. Our inheritance was visionaries, tyrants, revolutionaries and mindless mobs. To usit had been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of earth. Blessed were oureyes for they saw and our ears that heard. And the freedom was like a grain of mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds. But when it is grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree. So that the birds of thought, speech and action come and make nests in its branches.

And as for the truths we believed not in what the prophets said but what the great throngs decided by democratic vote.For who does not gather with the majority scatters. And who is against majority the majority is against him. And whoever did the will of the crowd were a brother and son of the kingdom. For if a king has hundred horses and one of them went astray he does not leave ninety nine in the meadows to search for one.

Now open your eyes and hear what we say.

For the seafarer does not bring from his voyage a handful of fish but the fat of whales and flesh of dolphins he has caught.

And the wanderer from the forest does not bring just leaves and flowers and fruits that he has plucked but sturdy cedar and teak and finest sandalwood and balsam and benzoic. With these hedecorates his house and keeps it fragrant.

Now as a feast is prepared for the bridegroom and gifts are gathered for the prince we bequeath to you this mighty wealth.

Look at the steel in every construction and marvel its strength that surpasses wood and mud and grass and stone. And there is plastic which moulds any which way and lasts forever and like Phoenix rises again and again for it can never be destroyed. Lucifer stole light and lordbanished him to the underworld. Prometheus pilfered fire and eagle feasted onthe liver of his immortal belly. But we have created electricity from the liver of the underworld. For the sun shines only in the day and the night steals him and we make the darkest night into day even when the pale light of the moonfails. Again the sun makes the earth hot but our electricity cools it. When the North wind sends cold shivers to the earth we keep it warm with our electricity. We have split atom to surrender its energy and buried the devils let loose from it in the deep bowels of the earth. We have put all ourknowledge of mastering Nature in microchips. These will be your prophets. And we have assured that you will be born even if the earth is barren. And for that we have frozen embryos of our mothers and sisters and wives and virgins.

Now that you know that you will be born ask not to know of the birds and flowers and grass and stars.

Birds have feathers so they fly away.

Flowers have colours that will fade away.

Grass will weather.

And the starry sky like a king with ninety nine horses will not search for the one that is lost.

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