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A Descent into the Maelstrom
Edgar Allan Poe · 初版 1841 年
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《A Descent into the Maelström》是美国作家Edgar Allan Poe于1841年发表的短篇小说。故事中，一名男子讲述了自己如何在海难和大漩涡中幸存的经历。该作通常被归入Poe的推理小说系列，也被视作早期科幻小说的一种形式。
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A Descent into the Maelstrom
Edgar Allan Poe · 初版 1841 年
《A Descent into the Maelström》是美国作家Edgar Allan Poe于1841年发表的短篇小说。故事中，一名男子讲述了自己如何在海难和大漩涡中幸存的经历。该作通常被归入Poe的推理小说系列，也被视作早期科幻小说的一种形式。
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我想知道作者知不知道爱伦·坡的《莫斯肯漩涡沉浮记》（A Descent into the Maelström）完全是虚构的……
I wonder if the author knows that Edgar Allan Poe's A Descent into the Maelström is entirely fictional...
……发生在我身上的一件事，是肉体凡胎从未遭遇过的——至少从来没人能死里逃生来讲述这种经历——而我当时承受的那六个小时的致命恐惧，已经让我身心彻底崩溃。”《莫斯肯漩涡沉浮记》，爱伦·坡，1845年 https://poestories.com/read/descent
…me an event such as never happened to mortal man -- or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of -- and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul.” A Descent Into The Maelstrom, Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 https://poestories.com/read/descent
部分原因在于分号和破折号（em-dash）的式微。至少从个人经验来看，我觉得它们在20世纪以前的虚构文学里要常见得多。想想爱伦·坡《莫斯肯漩涡沉浮记》的开篇：> “不久之前，”他终于开口了，“我还完全能像我最小的儿子一样给你带路走这条路线；但是，大约三年前，发生在我身上的一件事，是绝无仅有的……”
Part of the reason is the decline of the semicolon and em-dash. At least anecdotally, I feel that they were far more common in pre-20th century fiction. Consider the opening of Poe's "Descent into the Maelstrom": > “Not long ago,” said he at length, “and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons; but, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened…