星期五, 7月 30, 2004

NICOLAS WAS...
         Neil Gaiman

older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
  The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language,
but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible
rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.
  Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless
Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave
one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen
into time.
  He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas[1]. His punishment was harsher.
  Ho.
  Ho.
  Ho.

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[1]:Prometheus:普羅米休斯, 希臘神話中違抗宙斯的禁令, 帶給人類火種的神祇, 因此而觸怒宙斯, 被牢牢地釘在高加索山頂(Mount Caucasus)上, 每天有一隻大鷹來啄食他的肝臟, 到夜晚肝臟又長出來, 恢復原形. 普羅米修士這樣受折磨達三萬年之久, 始終沒有屈服, 後來被赫克力斯所救.

  Loki:北歐神話中邪神Loki, 因為陰謀害死光神Balder, 被主神Odin與其餘諸神鎖在山洞中, 受毒蛇毒液滴面之刑罰, 直到諸神的黃昏Ragnarok才掙脫桎梏.

  Sisyphus:薛西佛斯, 希臘神話中觸怒了天神宙斯, 罰在冥界的Tartarus千萬次地推滾著巨石上山, 又
千萬次地眼見巨石滾下山來.

  Judas:猶大. (講這樣大家就應該很清楚是誰了吧?)
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  100 words, 連titles一起算是102 words.
  雖然沒有任何一個字與Christmas或是Santa Claus有關, 但是相信各位都知道寫的是誰...
  可以寫出這樣子的極短篇...真是奇才...

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