8.饕餮- -

                                      

8.饕餮                                     

 

　　我在漫游四方时，曾于一座岛上见过一个人头铁足的怪物，在一刻不停地吃着泥土，饮着海水。我在旁边观察良久，然后走近问道："你从不感到满足吗？你的饥渴永不会消解吗？"

　　怪物回答："不，我已经满足了，我甚至已倦于吃喝；但我担心明天没有泥土可食，没有海水可饮。"

The Plutocrat

In my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate of the earth and drank of the sea incessantly. And for a long while I watched him. Then I approached him and said, "Have you never enough; is your hunger never satisfied and your thirst never quenched?"

And he answered saying, "Yes, I am satisfied, nay, I am weary of eating and drinking; but I am afraid that tomorrow there will be no more earth to eat and no more sea to drink."

- 作者： 纪伯伦WYB 访问统计：　2005年04月5日, 星期二 17:50 加入博采