标题: 《Nothing But Gingerbread Left 》作者：- Henry Kuttner【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-14 09:16 标题: 《Nothing But Gingerbread Left 》作者：- Henry Kuttner【EPUB】 NOTHING BUT GINGERBREAD LEFT The only way to make people believe this story is to write it in German. And theres no pointin doing that for the German-speaking world is already starting to worry about gingerbreadleft. I speak figuratively. Its safer. Very likely Rutherford whose interests are equally dividedbetween semantics and Basin Street could create an English equivalent of gingerbread left Godforbid. As it is the song with its reductio ad absurdum of rhythm and sense is meaninglessin translation. Try translating Jabberwocky into German. So what The song as Rutherford wrote it in German had nothing to do with gingerbread but since theoriginal is obviously unavailable Im substituting the closest thing to it that exists inEnglish. Its lacking in that certain compelling perfection on which Rutherford worked formonths but itll give you an idea. Well start I suppose with the night Rutherford threw a shoe at his son. He had reason. PhilRutherford was in charge of semantics at the University and he was battling a hangover andtrying to correct papers at the same time. Physical disabilities had kept him out of the armyand he was brooding over that wondering if he should gulp some more Sherman units of thiaminand hating his students. The papers they had handed in were no good. For the most