第三个警察

• 松

  2020-06-20
  又或者，我会投入水中，漂流到远方，融合太阳、光线和未知的水分，变成异乎寻常的东西。大千世界有各种液体和水汽，存在于各自永恒的时间里，无人察觉，无人了解，只在其本原而莫测的神秘中才有意义，只在其育目而无情的浩瀚中合乎情理，只在其实在的抽象中变得无懈可击。说起这种事物的内在特性，我的一生也许正是它最精华的核心。也许，我属于一座孤独的堤岸，又或者就是那绝望的怒涛。
• 松

  2020-06-20
  “炸药爆破，还有最激烈的燃烧。但一切终究还是万有质在起作用。假如能找到产生树的准确波长，那你靠出口木材就能小赚一笔。”
• 松

  2020-06-20
  “你确定自己无名无姓？”“确定无疑。”“难道不是叫米克・巴里？”“不是。”“沙勒迈恩・奥基夫？”“不是。”“贾斯廷・斯彭斯爵士？”“不是。”“金伯利？”“不是。”“伯纳德·范恩？”“不是。”“约瑟夫·坡或者诺兰？”“不是。”“那就是姓加文，或者莫伊尼汉？” “不是。”“罗森克兰茨·奥多德？”“不是。”“奥本森？”“不是。”“奎格利、穆尔鲁尼或者胡尼曼？”“不是。”“哈迪曼或者梅里曼？”“不是。”“彼得·邓迪？”“不是。”“斯克鲁奇？”“不是。”“布拉德勋爵？”“不是。”“奥格罗尼、奥罗阿蒂或者芬尼希？”“都不是。”“这也不是，那也不是，你倒是推得一干二净啊。”警长说。说着，他又拿那块红布擦了擦脸上的汗。“反正死不承认就对了。”他补充道。“我也不叫詹金斯。”我赌气说。“罗杰·麦克休？”“不是。”“西特里克・霍根？”“不是。”“康罗伊？”“不是。”“奥康罗伊？”“不是。”“可能的名字也就这些了。”他说，“除非你是黑人或者印第安人。是不是叫伯恩？”“不是。”“那好吧。”他很郁闷，弯下腰，继续搜肠刮肚。
• 松

  2020-06-19
  我跟你说过吗？关于锯齿踏板的问题，我已经间过奥戈尔基督察。我说，既然只能在药铺买到，而且还要求登记，保证你不滥用，那为什么不禁用，或者像砒霜一样列为特殊商品？”“可是，爬坡时很够劲。”吉尔黑尼说。警长往干燥的路面连吐了几口唾沫。“‘这得要国会通过特别法案才行，’督察说，‘国会特别法案’。”
• 松

  2020-06-19
  “我一直在听，”我回道，“可什么也听不见。”“这不奇怪，”麦克鲁斯金说，“因为这是我特制的乐器。那些曲调的振动频率很高，一般人的耳朵根本接收不到。只有我自己才了解其中的奥妙，懂得它的窍门，知道该怎么操作。你觉得怎么样？”我勉强站起身，打算回值班室，一只手无力地捋了下眉毛。“我觉得曲调非常齐整。”我回道。
• 松

  2020-06-19
  “六年前开始，这些匣子就看不见了，不管用不用放大镜。我最后做的那五个谁都没见过，因为所有放大镜都不行，都没法把东西放到足够大，当然，也就没人知道它们是世界上最袖珍的手工艺品。同样，也没人知道我在干什么，因为我的那些工具都小得看不见。至于我目前正在做的匣子，更是小得跟不存在一样。‘第一号‘可以同时容纳一百万个这样的小玩意儿，而且就算这样，剩下的空间都足够再放一条卷好的女式马裤。谁也不知道这要什么时候才会停下来。”
• 松

  2020-06-19
  “那才是真正的镖尖。”麦克鲁斯金说，“但它非常细，能穿透你手上的表皮，而你却丝毫不会感觉痛，也完全看不见、听不见。它细小到像是根本不存在，你可以为此想上半小时，可最终还是一无所获。
• 张华弥

  2018-04-30
  Suddenly I found myself noticing my own experience and taking account of my surroundings. There was a bend in the road and when I came round it an extraordinary spectacle was presented to me. About a hundred yards away was a house which astonished me. It looked as if it were painted like an advertisement on a board on the roadside and, indeed, very poorly painted. It looked completely false and unconvincing. It did not seem to have any depth or breadth and looked as if it would not deceive a child. That was not in itself sufficient to surprise me because I had seen pictures and notices by the roadside before. What bewildered me was the sure knowledge,deeply rooted in my mind,that this was the house I was searching for and that there were people inside it. I had never seen with my eyes ever...
• 张华弥

  2018-04-29
  He was sitting with his back half-towards me and I was greatly startled by his appearance. He had grown enormously fat and his brown hair was gone, leaving him quite bald. His strong face had collapsed to jowls of hanging fat. I could discern a happy glimmer from the side of his fire-lit eye; an open bottle of whiskey was standing on the floor beside his chair. He turned lazily towards the open door, half-rose and gave a scream which pierced me and pierced the house careered up to reverberate appalingly in the vault of the heavens. His eyes were transfixed and motionless as they stared at me, hisloose face shrunk and seemed to crumble to a limp pallid rag of flesh. His jaws clicked a few times like a machine and then he fell forward on his face with another horrible shriek which subsided t...
• 张华弥

  2018-04-27
  Afterwards I saw that this was one of his rare jokes because what he showed me was something that I could tell nobody about,there are no suitable words in the world to tell my meaning. This cabinet had an opening resembling a chute and another large opening resembling a black hole about a yard below the chute. He pressed two red articles like typewriter keys and turned a large knob away from him. At once there was a rumbling noise as if thousands of full biscuit-boxes were falling down a stairs. I felt that these falling things would come out of the chute at any moment. And so they did, sppearing for a few seconds in die air and then disappearing down the black hole below. But what can I say about them? In colour they were not white or black and certainly bore no intermediate colour; the...
• 张华弥

  2018-04-18
  I cannot help to describe what it was but it had frightened me very much long before I had understood it even slightly. It was some change which came upon me or upon the room， indescribably subtle, yet momentous, ineffable. It was as if the daylight had changed with unnatural suddenness, as if the temperature of the evening had altered greatly in an instant or as if the air had become twice as rare aor twice as dense as it had been in the winking of an eye; perhaps all of these and other things happened together for all my senses were bewildered all at once and could give me no explanation. The ringers of my right hand thrust into the opening in the floor, had closed mechanically, found nothing at all and came up again empty. The box was gone!