《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第二部》第29节
Half-open doors are ye, at which grave-diggers wait. And this is YOUR reality: “Everything deserveth to perish.” Alas, how ye stand there before me, ye unfruitful ones; how lean your ribs! And many of you surely have had knowledge thereof. Many a one hath said: “There hath surely a God filched something from me secretly whilst I slept? Verily, enough to make a girl for himself therefrom! “Amazing is the poverty of my ribs!” thus hath spoken many a present-day man. Yea, ye are laughable unto me, ye present-day men! And especially when ye marvel at yourselves! And woe unto me if I could not laugh at your marvelling, and had to swallow all that is repugnant in your platters! As it is, however, I will make lighter of you, since I have to carry what is heavy; and what matter if beetles and May-bugs also alight on my load! Verily, it shall not on that account become heavier to me! And not from you, ye present-day men, shall my great weariness arise.— Ah, whither shall I now ascend with my longing! From all mountains do I look out for fatherlands and motherlands. But a home have I found nowhere: unsettled am I in all cities, and decamping at all gates. Alien to me, and a mockery, are the present-day men, to whom of late my heart impelled me; and exiled am I from fatherlands and motherlands. Thus do I love only my CHILDREN’S LAND, the undiscovered in the remotest sea: for it do I bid my sails search and search. Unto my children will I make amends for being the child of my fathers: and unto all the future—for THIS present-day!— Thus spake Zarathustra.
注释摘要
在这一段里，查拉图斯特拉将他在“文化之邦”所遭遇的当代人，归结为一个惊人的意象：“半开的门，掘墓人在旁等候。”门只半开，意味着一种悬而未决的、既非全然生亦非彻底死的中间状态。但真正要紧的是——掘墓人已经在等着了。这些掘墓人并非前来收殓已死之人，而是伫立在门口，等候那注定要倒下的。换句话说，在査拉图斯特拉看来，这些当代人身上弥漫着一种连自己都尚未完全察觉的濒…