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words that now emerged from his mouth as if on their own:

“I’d like to depict how the blind and the seeing are not equal!”

“Who are the blind and the seeing?” Black said naively。

“The blind and the seeing are not equal; it’s what ‘ve ma yestevil’ama ve’l

basiru’nun means;” Butterfly said and continued:

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“…nor are the darkness and the light。

The shade and the heat are not equal;

nor are the living and the dead。“

I shuddered for an instant; thinking of the fates of Elegant Effendi; Enishte

and  our  storyteller  brother  who  was  killed  tonight。  Were  the  others  as

frightened  as  I?  Nobody  moved  for  a  time。  Stork  was  still  holding  my  book

open; but seemed not to see the vulgarity I’d painted though we were all still

staring at it!

“I’d  want  to  paint  Judgment  Day;”  said  Stork。  “The  resurrection  of  the

dead;  and  the  separation  of  the  guilty  from  the  innocent。  Why  is  it  that  we

cannot depict the Sacred Word of our faith?”

In  our  youth;  working  together  in  the  same  room  of  our  workshop;  we

would periodically lift our faces from our work boards and tables; just as the

aging masters would do to rest their eyes; and begin talking about any topic

that  happened  to  enter  our  minds。  Back  then;  just  as  we  now  did  while

looking  at  the  book  open  before  us;  we  didn’t  look  at  one  another  as  we

chatted。  For  our  eyes  would  be  turned  toward  some  distant  spot  outside  an

open  window。  I’m  not  sure  if  it  was  the  excitement  of  recalling  something

remarkably  beautiful  from  my  halcyon  apprenticeship  days;  or  the  sincere

regret I felt at that moment because I hadn’t read the Koran for so long; or the

horror of the crime I’d seen at the coffeehouse that night; but when my turn

came to speak; I grew confused; my heart quickened as if I’d e under the

threat  of  some  danger;  and  as  nothing  else  came  to  mind;  I  simply  said  the

following:

“You  remember  those  verses  at  the  end  of  ”The  Cow‘  chapter?  I’d  want

most  of  all  to  depict  them:  “Oh  God;  judge  us  not  by  what  we’ve  forgotten

and by our mistakes。 Oh God; burden us not with a weight we cannot bear; as

with  those  who  have  gone  before  us。  Forgive  and  absolve  us  of  our

transgressions and sins! Treat us with mercy; my dear God。”“ My voice broke

and  I  was  embarrassed  by  the  tears  I  shed  unexpectedly—perhaps  because  I

was  wary  of  the  sarcasm  that  we  always  kept  at  the  ready  during  our

apprenticeships to protect ourselves and to avoid exposing our sensitivities。

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