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节选《奈亚拉托提普》 By H.P.L

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我无法确切地回忆起它是从何时开始发生的,也许是几个月前,也许是更久之前吧!在一切开始之前,世界便频频显示出令人不安的迹象,到处都充满了一种奇怪的、令人忐忑不安的焦虑,那是对于不可知的危险的忧虑。这种危险遍布世界各地,并且很快地以政治的方式爆发出来。由不知名的焦虑情绪引发的政治和社会动乱成为了世界的主流,示威游行和暴动几乎填满了每天的新闻。至今我仍可以记起当时那些来来往往的人们,还有他们那苍白的脸色和忧郁的神情。
怪异莫名的罪状感笼罩在大地之上, 彷佛来自于深渊之底、群星之间的阴晦冷风扫荡着整个世界,季节的次序发生了剧烈的改变,明明是冬天却热得可怕,这种异常的情况持续了很长的时间,几乎所有的信徒都认为这个世界甚至整个宇宙都已不再由已知的神明控制,而是被那些未知的邪恶力量所支配。
正是那时奈亚来到了我所在的城市——一座古老而伟大的,却早已被数不清的罪恶所玷污的城市。我曾经从我朋友那听说过奈亚的事情:他的来历无人知晓,但是他看起来有着传统的埃及血统,那些异教徒一看见他就跪下了,不过他们却说不出个所以然来。奈亚宣称自己来自遥远过去的黑暗之中,并且掌握着那些未曾被人类所知晓的奥秘。这个充满着神秘气质的男人在世界到处向人们展示他所拥有的宇宙秘密,曾经有不少学者试图证明他的神奇表演只是个无聊的骗局,但在奈亚利用他的仪器做出科学的、不容置疑的演示后,他们都无语地离去了。
我的朋友曾经在普罗维丹斯见过奈亚的展示,那些神秘莫测的宇宙奇迹秘深深地吸引住了我朋友,他疯狂地崇拜奈亚,并且极力向我推荐奈亚的神奇演示。他说,那些宇宙的奥秘完全超越了人类的想象力,即便是最具创造力的作家也无法用语言表达得出来,只有在奈亚的展示之中,人类才能亲身体会到这些原本永远都无法接触的领域。
就在那个炎热的冬天,我终于按持不住自己的好奇心,与那些同样被奈亚所吸引的人彻夜去看他。在皎洁而柔弱的月光下,我们来到了奈亚下榻的地方。在那里,我终于亲眼看见了他——一个肤色黝黑、脸上总是挂着略显阴险的笑容,身材瘦长的男人。他很热情地招待了我们,并且很快答应为我们展示他的那些宇宙奥秘。
在奈亚的带领下,我们来到了地下室,在一片令人窒息的黑暗中,奈亚将一个形态奇异的金属盒子摆在了我们眼前,盒子里面装着一块近乎黑色的、带红色条纹的多面体,它悬在了盒子的中间,有一个金属圈套在了它的半腰上,把它托住了,还有七个设计精巧的支撑物沿水平方向伸展开来,与盒子的内壁形成了一定的角度。这个奇特的多面体在黑暗中散发出十分柔和的白色光辉,十分引人注目。我们按照奈亚的指示,将自己的精神全部集中在那块多面体上。很快,我们的思绪便被它带到了那遥远到无法估计的年代,在那里我看到了无可言状的异域的景象:有高大的石头塔楼,巨大的、没有生命迹象的山脉,还有那些隐藏在阴影之中的可怖面孔。接着,我看见了世界正在无尽的黑暗中抵御着那些摧毁人类栖身之地的邪恶力量;无数的人旋转着、翻腾着、挣扎着死去;死气沉沉的地球围绕在那渐渐黯淡的、冷却了的太阳周围。一切是如此可怕,可一切又是如此真实,我和其他人一起被吓得尖叫起来,于是所有的影像消失了,我们又回到了那间阴暗的地下室中。奈亚微笑着安抚着我们,并且很有礼貌地将我们送走。
当我们行走在那炎热而空旷的午夜大街时,所有人都依旧未能从那种莫名的恐惧感中恢复,我们开始互相安慰自己:这座城市还是和以前一模一样,依然充满了活力。
到了第二天,奈亚便离开了这座城市,我的朋友对此感到非常遗憾,因为他昨晚有事而未能和我一起去看奈亚。与他相反,我感到了一种轻松——从奈亚那里感受到的震撼是如此巨大,以至于只要我一想到和他同处一个城市便会觉得极度的不安。
世界的疯狂程度日渐增长,我之前提到的那种危险的焦虑随着时间而变得愈加深刻,人们甚至彼此开始了斗争,所有的高尚都被堕落的邪恶所取代,人类从未如此绝望与悲观。我的朋友同样陷入了这种狂暴的焦虑之中,他像那些疯子一样在街上大吵大闹,最终死在一场暴乱之中。
当我还未来得及为他的死亡而感到悲痛时,真正的绝望便已找上了我。在那个最后的夜晚,一场灾难性的停电席卷了整个城市,刚开始的时候我和别人一样惊惶失措,我们自发地来到昏暗而闷热的街道上,大家彼此交谈着,然后一同咒骂着该死的电力公司。
我相信当时每个人都和我一样感到有什么东西不对劲,因为我们不约而同地抬头望向天空。皎洁的银色月亮正逐渐地转变成为一种我们所不能忍受的绿色,就像发霉的腐尸般,我甚至觉得自己从月光中闻到了一股腐臭味。所有人都被吓坏了,我们放声地尖叫、无意义地挥手,直到有某种力量迫使我们安静下来为止。在这种不知名的力量指引下,我们开始形成了一种奇怪的、不由自主的队列,依靠着月亮那病态的绿色光线朝前走着。我们都不知道自己要到哪里去,只是被那种无可抵御的力量驱使着。


IP属地:河北来自iPhone客户端1楼2023-05-19 22:25回复
    Nyarlathotep, by H. P. Lovecraft.
    Nyarlathotep... the crawling chaos... I am the last... I will tell the audient void...
    I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places. There was a demoniac alteration in the sequence of the seasons - the autumn heat lingered fearsomely, and everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown.
    And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been suc


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      And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.
      I remember when Nyarlathotep came to my city - the great, the old, the terrible city of unnumbered crimes. My friend had told me of him, and of the impelling fascination and allurement of his revelations, and I burned with eagerness to explore his uttermost mysteries. My friend said they were horrible and impressive beyond my most fevered imaginings; and what was thrown on a screen in the darkened room prophesied things none but Nyarlathotep dared prophesy, and in the sputter of his sparks there was taken from men that which had never been taken before yet which shewed only in the eyes. And I heard it hinted abroad that those who knew Nyarlathotep looked on sights which others saw not.
      It was in the hot autumn that I went through the night with the restless crowds to see Nyarlathote


      IP属地:河北来自iPhone客户端3楼2023-05-19 22:28
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        大概只能转这么多了 感谢大佬的原文和译文贡献


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