巫术之源
Sourcery
Terry Pratchett · 初版 1988 年
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上次露面时，那个奇笨无比的巫师 Rincewind 掉下了世界边缘。如今奇迹般地，他又重新现身了，而且这次他还带上了 Luggage。但不仅如此……很久很久以前，有个第八个儿子的第八个儿子，他理所当然是一位巫师。似乎这还不够复杂，这位巫师后来又生了七个儿子。接着他又生了第八个儿子——一位巫师的平方（数学算法仅此而已）。当然，他是一个魔法源泉——一位术士。
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……到目前为止，每一本都很有趣，而且大部分都蕴含着智慧的火花，确实能引人深入思考更深层的主题。目前为止我最喜欢的是《死神莫特》，不过读到最后我也非常喜欢《大法》。普拉切特还在世时我压根没读过他的书，甚至听都没听说过他，但鉴于他如此高产，故事又如此机智巧妙，真希望他老人家还活着。
…thus far all of them have been fun and most of them have little nuggets of wisdom that really do invite thought into a deeper theme. Thus far my favorite has been Mort, but I also ended up really liking Sourcery as well. I hadn’t read any Pratchett while he was still alive, I hadn’t even heard of him in fact, but given how prolific he was and the level of cleverness in his stories, I wish he was still alive.
> 《好兆头》：盖曼与普拉切特强强联手，还有什么好挑剔的？ 这是一本好书，但在我心中它的美感略有瑕疵，因为我觉得它就是在翻抄普拉切特早期的《大法》。
> Good Omens: Gaiman and Pratchett team up, what’s not to love? It's a good book, but aesthetically it suffers in my mind because it's a rewrite of Pratchett's earlier book Sourcery.
我目前正在读特里·普拉切特的《大法》。你的评论简直就是那本书里的核心情节之一。
I am currently reading "Sourcery" by Terry Pratchett. Your remark is literally one of the plot points of the story.
……碟形世界小说中迄今为止抵制它们的人。那些已经拥有并喜爱它们的人会觉得这足够令人愉快。哦，我个人认为《平等权利》是这个系列的最佳切入点，而不是《魔法之源》（Sourcery）。不过反正我是按出版顺序读的，热切地等待每一本新书问世。该死，我真怀念能够期待一本新的普拉切特小说的日子；他是我那一代的伍德豪斯。
…Discworld novels who's resisted them so far. Those who have and love them will find it a pleasant enough survey. Oh and I personally think that Equal Rites is the best entry point to the series rather than Sourcery. But then I was reading them in publishing order anyway and eagerly waiting for each new one to come out. Damn I miss being able to look forward to a new Pratchett novel; he was a Wodehouse for my generation.
……去阻止它，其中大部分手段都涉及一些令人愉悦但非法的尝试——试图通过使用异域草药或酵母制品将大脑调谐到正确的波长。但它从来没真正起过作用。”——特里·普拉切特，《大法》
…prevent it, most of them involving enjoyable but illegal attempts to tune the mind into the right wavelength by the use of exotic herbage or yeast products. It never works properly.” ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
这让我想起了特里·普拉切特的《大法》。巫师们自己成不了源法者——他们只是狂热地使用别人释放出来的源法。他们多年的研习，并不能阻止他们把‘拥有力量的使用权’误当成‘掌控了力量’。
This reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Sourcery. The wizards don’t become sourcerers themselves - they become enthusiastic users of someone else’s sourcery. Their years of learning don’t protect them from mistaking access to power for mastery of it.