标题: 《The Jewels of Aptor 》作者：- Samuel R. Delany【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-1-2 13:52 标题: 《The Jewels of Aptor 》作者：- Samuel R. Delany【EPUB】 Scanned by Highroller Proofed by an unsung hero THE JEWELS OF APTOR Samuel R. Delany The waves flung up against the purple glow of double sleeplessness. Along the piers the ships return; but sailing I would go through double rings of fire, double fears. So therefore let your bright vaults heave the night about with ropes of wind and points of light, and say, as all the rolling stars go, “I have stood my feet on rock and seen the sky.” —These are the opening lines from The Galactica, by the one-armed poet Geo, the epic of the conflicts of Leptar and Aptor. Prologue Afterwards, she was taken down to the sea. She didn’t feel too well, so she sat on a rock down where the sand was wet and scrunched her bare toes in and out of the cool surface. She turned away, looked toward the water, and hunched her shoulders a little. “I think it was awful,” she said. “I think it was pretty terrible. Why did you show it to me? He was just a little boy. What reason could they have possibly had for doing that to him?” “It was just a film,” he said. “We showed it to you so you would learn.” “But it was a film of something that really happened.” “It happened several years ago, several hundred miles away.” “But it did happen; you used a tight beam to spy on them, and when the image came