Re: [問卦] 早上四隻腳 中午兩隻腳 晚上三隻腳?

作者: pinebox (pinebox)   2021-07-17 00:23:25
※ 引述《wiki (微G)》之銘言:
: 剛剛被我妹問個問題
: 什麼生物早上有四隻腳,中午兩隻腳,晚上三隻腳?
: 本魯想破了腦袋想不出來
: 真的有這種奇怪的生物存在嗎?
: 有無卦
這是希臘悲劇 Oedipus the King 裡的問題。
Sophocles 的作品。
劇中妖獸 Sphinx 問前往 Thebes 旅客這個問題:什麼動物早上走路四隻腳,中午兩隻腳,晚上三隻腳?
答不出來,格殺勿論。
Oedipus 答出正確答案:人。
嬰兒地上爬行用四隻腳,成人走路兩隻腳,老人拄著拐杖三隻腳。
居然有人答出問題,妖獸 Sphinx 氣到暈倒。
提到 Sophocles...
身為一個英詩愛好者,會背 Matthew Arnold 的 Dover Beach,自是當然。
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
美國左派想摧毀西洋文化傳統。
捫心自問,我學英文可不是想整天黑人好棒棒,某某好可憐,老白男真可惡,搞一些膚淺的批判理論。
我是右派,我欣賞西洋文化傳統。

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