衔尾蛇
The worm Ouroboros
Eric Rücker Eddison · 初版 1900 年
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这是一部独树一帜的20世纪散文体史诗作品，展现了 Demons 与 Witches 两大族群之间史诗般的权力争夺与冲突。该作早于 Tolkien 更负盛名的经典作品，包含陆地与海洋上的探险与征战、英勇壮举与阴谋背叛、爱恋、欲望与不忠；所有场景描写极尽奢华壮丽，足以挑战最生动的想象力。尽管许多评论家因几处细微瑕疵而称其“不够完美”，但只要怀着开放的心灵去阅读，它便能将读者带入极少有作者
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……《奥夫特丁根》、《古舟子咏》与《克里斯特贝尔》、贝克福德的《瓦泰克》、莫里斯的《伊阿宋》以及《地上乐园》的序言（其余的就算了）、麦克唐纳的《幻境》、《莉莉丝》和《金钥匙》、埃迪森的《衔尾蛇》（The Worm Ouroboros）、托尔金的《魔戒》，还有那部令人震撼、难以忍受却又无法抗拒的神作——大卫·林赛的《大角星之旅》。另外还有默温·皮克的《提图斯·葛罗安》。
…Ofterdingen, The Ancient Mariner and Christabel, Beckford's Vathek, Morris's Jason and the Prologue (little else) of the Earthly Paradise, MacDonald's Phantastes, Lilith, and The Golden Key, Eddison's Worm Ouroboros, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and that shattering, intolerable, and irresistible work, David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus. Also Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan.
这些书里我只读过《衔尾蛇》（The Worm Ouroboros），但我真的推爆。它的结构一开始有点怪——你必须硬着头皮熬过第一章——但越往后越稳，简直叹为观止。如果你对《魔戒》有一丁点兴趣……
Of these I've only read The Worm Ouroboros, and I cannot recommend it enough. The structure is a bit weird at first—you gotta get past the first chapter—but after that it settles and is astounding. If you have any passing interest in Lord of…
不知道为什么，我对这两本书都没问题，但 E. R. 埃迪森的《衔尾蛇》对我的劝退效果简直拉满。直到今天，我单次尝试阅读从没突破过 100 页（这里的“单次尝试”可能意味着连续几周全神贯注地硬啃）。
I never had a problem with either of them, for some reason, but E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros had that effect on me pretty heavily. To this day I've never read more than 100 pages of that book in a single attempt (where attempt can be a couple weeks of concerted effort).
冒着给大家增加 AI 审美疲劳的风险推荐：按发表顺序排列的 4 篇 GPT 论文。我目前也正在读以下几本：1. 《Google 软件工程》（O'Reilly 出版） 2. E. R. 埃迪森的《衔尾蛇》 3. 默温·皮克的《提图斯·葛罗安》
At the risk of contributing to the AI fatigue: The 4 GTP papers in order of publication. I'm also in the middle of the following: 1. Software Engineering at Google (O'Reilley) 2. The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison 3. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
在托尔金之前，精灵和矮人可不单单属于儿童童话。在这之前就有不少知名度尚可的作品以它们为主角，比如《衔尾蛇》或者《妖精之王之女》。波尔·安德森也在《魔戒》（LOTR）出版的同一年推出了《碎剑》，这本书虽然出自完全不同的作者之手，却能看出许多相同的渊源影响。托尔金的重要性……
Elves and dwarves didn't strictly mean children's fairy tales prior to Tolkien. There's plenty of semi-popular prior art where they feature, like the Worm Ouroboros or The King of Elfland's Daughter. Poul Anderson also published The Broken Sword the same year as LOTR, which shows a lot of the same influences as written by a very different author. Tolkien's importance…
……罗伯特·E·霍华德等等。对于这些作品的大多数，我们依然遵循“米老鼠规则”，在百分之百确定安全之前绝不轻举妄动。举个例子，我想把《衔尾蛇》[0] 录入电子化已经想了挺久了，按保守估计它也早该进入公有领域了，但我依然无法正式核实其版权状态，所以一直搁置着。[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worm_Ouroboros
…Robert E. Howard, etc. For most of these, we still follow the Mickey Mouse rule, and do not proceed until we are absolutely sure they're safe. Case in point, I've been thinking about transcribing The Worm Ouroboros[0] for some time, as it should be in the public domain even by conservative estimates, and yet I can't formally verify its copyright status, so I haven't yet. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worm_Ouroboros