英语听书《白鲸记》第1032期

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And yet, I've sometimes thought my brain was very calm — frozen calm, this old skull¹ cracks so, like a glass in which the contents turned to ice, and shiver it. And still this hair is growing now; this moment growing, and heat must breed it; but no, it's like that sort of common grass that will grow anywhere, between the earthy clefts² of Greenland ice or in Vesuvius lava³. How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds⁴ of split sails lash⁵ the tossed ship they cling to. A vile⁶ wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards⁷ of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces. Out upon it! — it's tainted⁸. Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable⁹ world. I'd crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there. And yet, 'tis a noble and heroic thing, the wind! who ever conquered it? In every fight it has the last and bitterest blow. Run tilting¹⁰ at it, and you but run through it. Ha! a coward wind that strikes stark¹¹ naked men, but will not stand to receive a single blow. Even Ahab is a braver thing — a nobler thing than that. Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate¹² and outrage¹³ mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.

然而，我有时候倒认为我的脑子是十分镇静的——静得像冻结了，这只老脑壳就这么格格发响，直象一只玻璃杯里的东西结了冰，里头还在哆嗦那样。可是，这顶头发这会儿还在不断地长出来，此刻就在长出来，这准是热气使它长出来的；可是，不，它也许象是一种到处都会生长的杂草那样，不管是在格陵兰那种冰天雪地的土缝里，还是在维苏威的熔岩里都长得出来。狂风可把它刮得多厉害呀；风呼呼地刮着我的头发，就象是刮着紧缚在复船上的支离破碎的篷帆。这股邪风，肯定是要先刮进牢狱的走廊。死牢。医院的病房，把那些地方都刮遍后，这才刮到这里，刮得象飞雪一样清白。滚，给我滚！——这是有毒的风。如果我是风呀，我可就不再刮这样一个邪气十足。卑鄙无耻的世界。我宁可悄悄地爬到什么地方的一个洞穴里，偷偷地在那里躲起来。不过话得说回来，风呀，它可是一种高贵而英勇的东西！谁曾征服过风来着？在每次的交手中，它最后总会使出最最厉害的绝招来。如果你去攻击它，你也不过是直穿过去，准扑个空。哈！那种吹打赤身裸体的人们的怯懦的风，一拳都也吃不消。哪怕亚哈，也比它勇敢——比它高贵。要是这会儿风有个形体可多好；不过，一切最会对人类施行暴行而使人最为愤怒的东西，所有这些东西都是没有形体的，而且都是象怪异的东西一样，而不是象神明那样的没有形体。

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