标题: 《The Colonel Came Back From Nothing At All 》作者:- Cordwainer Smith【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-3-23 20:23 标题: 《The Colonel Came Back From Nothing At All 》作者:- Cordwainer Smith【EPUB】 The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at All I. The Naked and Alone We looked through the peephole of the hospital door. Colonel Harkening had torn off his pajamas again and lay naked face down on the floor. His body was rigid. His face was turned sharply to the left so that the neck muscles showed. His right arm stuck out straight from the body. The elbow formed a right angle, with the forearm and hand pointing straight upward. The left arm also pointed straight out, but in this case the hand and forearm pointed downward in line with the body. The legs were in the grotesque parody of a running position. Except that Colonel Harkening wasn't running. He was lying flat on the floor. Flat, as though he were trying to squeeze himself out of the third dimension and to lie in two planes only. Grosbeck stood back and gave Timofeyev his turn at the peephole. "I still say he needs a naked woman," said Grosbeck. Grosbeck always went in for the elementals. We had atropine, surgital, a whole family of the digitalin ids assorted narcotics, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, subsonic therapy temperature shock, audiovisual shock, mechanical hypnosis, and gas hypnosis. None of these had had the least effect on Colonel Harkening. When we picked the colonel up he tried to lie down. When we put clothes on him he tore them