《耶利歌》扭曲灵魂！

祈祷者的话语或许各不相同，他们的意愿却是共同的：
The words may change from prayer to prayer，but the meat of them is always the same:

“哦 阿冈尼司帝斯 黑暗的使者
请将我变成仇敌的噩梦吧
让我的肉体被您雕刻成他们恐惧的模样
让我的头颅成为他们的丧钟
让我的歌声令他们感到绝望
让我用这绝望的歌声夜夜令他们不得入眠

重塑我吧
重组我吧
改变我吧

倘若您不肯这么做
阿冈尼司帝斯
那就让我放弃一切化做虚无

为了复仇
我不成功 便成仁”

“听候您的安排 我的主人”
‘O Agonistes，dark deliverer，make me in the image of my enemies’ nightmares．Let my flesh

be the stuff from which you carve their terrors; let my skull be a bell which sounds their

death – knell．Give me a song to sing，which will be the song of their despair，and let

them wake and find me singing it at the bottom of their beds．
‘Unmake me，unknit me，transform me．
‘And if you cannot do that for me，Agonistes，then let me be excrement; let me be nothing;

less than nothing．
‘For I want to be the terror of my enemies，or I want oblivion．

‘The choice，Lord，is yours.’

II·THE SCYTHE – MEISTER 镰刀手 - 梅司特

被扒去了脸皮，头部带有恐怖的环状金属器具，全身被金属利器所缠绕，痛苦的表情已经不能再脸上看到了。一排白森森的牙齿让人心寒。

I

普利摩顿比神话或历史上任何一个伟大城邦都要古老。事实上，根据许多史料记载，这是有史以来最造建造的一个城邦。远在特洛伊、罗马、耶路撒冷建立之前，普利摩顿就已经存在了。
The city of Primordium was founded before any of the great cities ofmyth or history．Indeed，it is according to many sources，the first cityever built．Before Troy，before Rome，before Jerusalem，there wasPrimordium．

长期以来，这个城邦由一个君主王朝统治着，其残暴程度可以与古罗马暴君恺撒相匹敌。就拿国王普菲多十一世来说吧，他在人民大起义爆发前统治了这个国家整整16年，是个极度腐败、灵魂堕落的人。他的生活穷奢极欲，住在一座他自认为坚不可摧的宫殿中，对普利摩顿三百多万民众的死活毫不关心。
Until recently it was ruled by a dynasty of Emperors，whose long tenurehad steadily produced a capacity for cruelty that would have challengedthe worst excesses of Rome’s corrupted Caesars．The Emperor PerfettoXI，for instance，who controlled Primordium for sixteen years until theGreat Insurrection，was a man familiar with every corruption of mind andspirit．He lived in excessive luxury，in a palace he believedimpregnable，caring little or nothing for the two and three quartermillion people who occupied Primordium．

最后，他的末日来临了。
In the end，that was his undoing．

等一下我们会说到的，现在先来说点其他的吧。
But we’ll come to that．