《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第四部》第50节
Oh, weep ye not, Gentle spirits! Weep ye not, ye Date-fruit spirits! Milk-bosoms! Ye sweetwood-heart Purselets! Weep ye no more, Pallid Dudu! Be a man, Suleika! Bold! Bold! —Or else should there perhaps Something strengthening, heart-strengthening, Here most proper be? Some inspiring text? Some solemn exhortation?— Ha! Up now! honour! Moral honour! European honour! Blow again, continue, Bellows-box of virtue! Ha! Once more thy roaring, Thy moral roaring! As a virtuous lion Nigh the daughters of deserts roaring! —For virtue’s out-howl, Ye very dearest maidens, Is more than every European fervour, European hot-hunger! And now do I stand here, As European, I can’t be different, God’s help to me! Amen! THE DESERTS GROW: WOE HIM WHO DOTH THEM HIDE!
注释摘要
影子的歌唱到这里，从方才那种对东方少女的慵懒沉醉，陡然转向了一种更高亢、近乎嘶吼的调子。他先是劝阻那想象出来的温柔伴侣们不要哭泣——“杜杜”和“苏莱卡”被他唤作“椰枣精灵”和“乳香心肝的小钱包”，这些昵称本身就是一种戏谑而造作的异域情调装饰。他这一整段唱词，本质上都是一个疲惫的欧洲灵魂戴着东方面具所做的自我表演。 紧接着，他突然自我打断，仿佛在舞台上质问自…