'..."The rebel with no specific gift for rebel- 「沒造反天份的造反者,註定
lion is destined to become the drone; and even 淪為人中雄蜂;其實說雄蜂還
this metaphor is inexact, since the drone has 不夠貼切,雄蜂至少還有個小
at least a small chance of fecundating the queen, 小的機會可能跟蜂后交配,而
whereas the human rebel-drone is deprived even 人中雄蜂則甚至連這機會都沒
of that small chance and may finally see himself 有,最終只會發現自己不僅完
as totally sterile, lacking not only the bril- 全沒搞頭,不僅沒有人生勝利
liant life-success of the queens but even the 組的蜂后那樣光鮮,甚至連工
humble satisfactions of the workers in the human 蜂在人間蜂巢裡享有的小確幸
hive. Such a personality is reduced to mere wax, 都不可得。這樣的人就只剩個
a mere receiver of impressions; and this condi- 石蠟泥偶,印啥就出啥;這情
tion is the very negation of the basic drive in 形恰好完全否定他的基本動力
him - to rebel. It is no wonder that in middle :造反。難怪到了中年以後,
age many such failed rebels, rebels turned self- 許多失敗的造反家,自己也心
conscious drones, aware of their susceptibility 知肚明就是個人中雄蜂,成天
to intellectual vogues, adopt a mask of cynicism 追著文青流行打轉,成天酸這
that cannot hide their more or less paranoiac 酸那,仍無法掩飾他那個什麼
sense of having been betrayed by life."' 人都對他不起的被害妄想。」
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