标题: 《The lathe of heaven》作者： - Ursula K. Le Guin 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-1-10 08:40 标题: 《The lathe of heaven》作者： - Ursula K. Le Guin 【EPUB】 THE LATHE OF HEAVEN THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. Le Guin Copyright ?? 1971 by Ursula K. Le Guin, Published by arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-162760 First Avon printing, April, 1973, Sixth Printing eBook scanned & proofed by Binwiped 10-20-02 [v1.0] THE LATHE OF HEAVEN 1 Confucius and you are both dreams, and I who say you are dreams am a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may explain it; that tomorrow will not be for ten file:///F|/rah/Ursula%20LeGuin/LeGuin,%20Urs...K%20-%20The%20Lathe%20Of%20Heaven%20[v1].htm (1 of 159) [7/17/03 11:37:28 PM] THE LATHE OF HEAVEN thousand generations. —Chuang Tse: II Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it. Borne, flung, tugged from anywhere to anywhere, for in the deep sea there is no compass but nearer and farther, higher and lower, the jellyfish hangs and sways; pulses move slight and quick within it, as the vast diurnal pulses beat in the moondriven sea. Hanging, swaying, pulsing, the most vulnerable and insubstantial creature, it has for its defense the violence and power of the whole ocean, to which it has entrusted its being, its going, and its will. But here rise the stubborn continents. The shelves of gravel and the cliffs of rock