珀涅罗珀记

女士，把你的胸脯遮好，放下长矛！

难道我不是一直保持着忠贞么？难道我不是一直在等啊等，尽管有那么多诱惑——甚至是胁迫——要我放弃等待？而一旦官方的说法占了上风，我又成了什么？一个训诚意味十足的传奇。一根用来敲打其他妇人的棍棒。她们怎就不能像我那样考虑周全、那样值得信赖、那样逆来顺受？这便是他们写下的诗句，那些歌手、故事的编者。不要学我，我想冲着你的耳朵尖叫——是的，你的耳朵！

I understand that this sort of thing has become a tradition, and is still practised in the world of the living when it comes to athletic contests.

I wasn’t just nervous, I was really afraid. The maids had been filling my ears with tales about how – once I was in the bridal chamber – I would be torn apart as the earth is by the plough, and how painful and humiliating that would be.

This was one of his great secrets as a persuader – he could convince another person that the two of them together faced a common obstacle, and that they needed to join forces in order to overcome it.

“The songs say I didn’t notice a thing because Athene had distracted me. If you believe that, you’ll believe all sorts of nonsense. In reality I’d turned my back on the two of them to hide my silent laughter at the success of my little surprise.”

难道我不是一直保持着忠贞么？难道我不是一直在等啊等，尽管那么多诱惑——甚至是胁迫——要我放弃等待？而一旦官方的说法占了上风，我又成了什么？一个训诚意味十足的传奇。一根用来敲打其他妇人的棍棒。她们怎就不能像我那样考虑周全、那样值得信赖、那样逆来顺受？这便是他们写下的诗句，那些歌手、故事的编者。不要学我，我想冲着你的耳朵尖叫一一是的，你的耳朵！但当我想叫时，却发出了猫头鹰般的啼声。

同他一样感到无助，可无助的程度是他的十倍 因为他的出生是人们热烈昐望和庆祝的，我们则不是他的母亲奉献了一位小王子。我们那些五花八门的妈妈只是在产卵，在生羔子，下崽子，养上一窝子 产驹子，生小狗生小猫，孵蛋，趴窝 我们是可以被任意宰割的小动物 卖了，丢进井里淹死，拿去做交易，用来干活，年老衰弱了就扔掉 他是父母所生；我们只是冒出来 就像番红花、蔷薇，或是滋生在泥沼里的麻雀