#閱讀筆記 #語錄
然而，當他們停下無止境的分類、記錄與報告時……難道沒有什麼讓他們稍作停頓的理由嗎？難道不是在那短暫的一瞥中，濕潤的吸吮聲和翻滾的黑色光澤的身體，曾一瞬間出現在那自然的水道中，讓他們不得不為那無法僅憑一瞥便能理解的存在，賦予一個物種名稱？難道那種不安的刺痛感，爬上他們脖背的感覺，與夜晚中某個真實的陰影有關嗎？某個遠處的低語，在他們沉睡時，悄然存在？
──Absolution, Jeff Vandermeer
這敘述也太克蘇魯
然而，當他們停下無止境的分類、記錄與報告時……難道沒有什麼讓他們稍作停頓的理由嗎？難道不是在那短暫的一瞥中，濕潤的吸吮聲和翻滾的黑色光澤的身體，曾一瞬間出現在那自然的水道中，讓他們不得不為那無法僅憑一瞥便能理解的存在，賦予一個物種名稱？難道那種不安的刺痛感，爬上他們脖背的感覺，與夜晚中某個真實的陰影有關嗎？某個遠處的低語，在他們沉睡時，悄然存在？
──Absolution, Jeff Vandermeer
這敘述也太克蘇魯
原文
Yet once they halted in their relentless cataloguing, recording, reporting … wasn’t there so much to give them pause? Hadn’t one, in the wet slurp and roll of a glinting dark body glimpsed for just a moment in a natural canal, had to impose a species name on what could not, could never, be intuited from such a glimpse?
Yet once they halted in their relentless cataloguing, recording, reporting … wasn’t there so much to give them pause? Hadn’t one, in the wet slurp and roll of a glinting dark body glimpsed for just a moment in a natural canal, had to impose a species name on what could not, could never, be intuited from such a glimpse?
Wasn’t the prickle of unease crawling up the back of their necks tied to some actual shadow in the night? Some distant muttering while they slept?
