标题: 《No, No, Not Rogov 》作者：- Cordwainer Smith【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-3-23 10:38 标题: 《No, No, Not Rogov 》作者：- Cordwainer Smith【EPUB】 NO, NO, NOT ROGOV! That Golden Shape on the golden steps shook and fluttered like a bird gone mad—like a bird imbued with an intellect and a soul, and, nevertheless, driven mad by ecstasies and terrors beyond human understanding. A thousand worlds watched. Had the ancient calendar continued, this would have been A.D. 13,582. After defeat, after disappointment, after ruin and reconstruction, mankind had leaped upon the stage of all the worlds. The golden steps reeled. Some eyes that watched had retinas. Some had crystalline cones. Yet all eyes were fixed upon the golden shape which interpreted "The Glory and Affirmation of Man" in the Inter-World Dance Festival of what might have been A.D. 13,582. Once again mankind was winning the contest. Music and dance were hypnotic beyond the limits of systems compelling, shocking to human and inhuman eyes. The dance was a triumph of shock—the shock of dynamic beauty. The golden shape on the golden steps executed shimmering intricacies of meaning. The body was gold and still human. The body was a woman, but more than