幻象之城
City of Illusions
Ursula K. Le Guin · 初版 1967 年
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他是一个成年男子，孤身置身于密林之中，没有踪迹显示他来自何方，也没有记忆说明他是谁——或者究竟是什么。他的眼睛不是人类的眼睛。森林居民收留了他，几乎像抚养孩子一样将他抚养成人，教他说话，训练他森林知识，倾囊相授所有知识。但他们无法解开他过去的谜团，最终他不得不踏上险象环生的征程，前往Es Toch，那座光芒之城、大地骗子之所、人类宿敌之地。在那里他将找到真正的自我……以及充满危险的宇宙。
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……在思想与说出的话语之间存在着空隙，意图可以潜入其中，符号可以被扭曲，谎言由此滋生。思想与传心之间却没有空隙；它们是同一个举动。谎言毫无立足之地。（《幻觉之城》）在后来的同背景作品中，勒古恩收回了这个设定，尽管她从未明确在正史中推翻它：> 我不能再把它用在故事里了，因为当我开始思考……
…thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. Between thought and sent-thought is no gap; they are one act. There is no room for the lie. (City of Illusions) In her later works in the same setting, Le Guin backed off from this, although she never explicitly retconned it out of existence: > I couldn’t use it in a story any more, because when I began to think…
上周我开始读厄休拉·勒古恩的《Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions》。这是她最早出版的几部小说。导言写得有点奇怪，因为作者似乎没读过多少勒古恩的作品，除了《地海巫师》之外，连她最出名、拿过奖的书都没怎么看过。我……
This past week I started Ursula Le Guin's "Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions" These are her earliest, published novels. The introduction is a bit odd as the author hasn't read much le Guin including her most popular, award winning books other than The Wizard of Earthsea. I'm…
太遗憾了，竟然没在里面某个地方引用勒古恩的“图案框”（patterning frame）[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Illusions#Objects]。
Missed chance, to fail to reference Le Guin's [patterning frame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Illusions#Objects) somewhere in there.