神秘汽车旅馆
Motel of the mysteries
David Macaulay · 初版 1979 年
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- 假想未来人将马桶当作圣物的幽默讽刺设定
- 讽刺考古界动辄将未知器物归因于仪式的偏见
- 配图精彩生动，脑洞大开启发人反思遗存意义
这是一个诙谐狡黠的故事，假托为未来考古学家发现并探索“Toot and C'mon Motel”的学术论文（任何与 Holiday Inn 及埃及法老的雷同之处纯属有意为之）。在这一过程中，他们几乎误读了每一个细节，认定这里是一座大墓地——比如追问那盆“长生不死的植物”究竟象征着永生，还是……等等，那不就是每个房间里随处可见的塑料绿萝吗？以此顺便对我们自以为“了解”的古埃及历史提出了质疑。全书借助 Macaulay 细致入微的描摹而大放异彩……
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大卫·麦考利的《神秘汽车旅馆》（Motel of the Mysteries，https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108831.Motel_of_the_Myst...）讽刺了这种偏见，书中公元4022年的考古学家考察了一间现代汽车旅馆房间，并出土了“神圣”的抽水马桶。真是一部神作。
David Macaulay's "Motel of the Mysteries" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108831.Motel_of_the_Myst...) satirizes this bias, with archeologists from 4022 inspecting a modern day motel room and uncovering the "holy" toilet. It's a gem.
你会喜欢大卫·麦考利的《神秘汽车旅馆》。故事基本就是一个未来的考古学家发现了一间被掩埋的汽车旅馆房间，并开始推测它的真正用途。“从挂在古旧门把手上的‘请勿打扰’标志来看，……
You would enjoy "Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay. Basically, a future archeologist discovers a buried motel room and begins speculating about it's true purpose. "judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob,…
1970年代有本很有趣的书叫《神秘汽车旅馆》，出自天才插画家大卫·麦考利之手，基本设定就是这样。未来的考古学家在地下发现了一间汽车旅馆房间，随后把里面的每样东西都解读得仿佛自己是在走进图坦卡蒙的……
There’s a fun 1970s book “Motel of the Mysteries” by the brilliant illustrator David Macaulay with this basic premise. A single motel room is discovered underground by future archeologists, who proceed to interpret everything as if entering Tutankhamen’s…
每次关于文物是否用于祭祀目的的争论，总会让我想起大卫·麦考利的一本妙书《神秘汽车旅馆》[1]。出版社的简介描述得很到位：“公元4022年；古代国家‘乌萨’（Usa）的所有疆土已被多年前发生的一场大灾难所留下的厚厚残骸所掩埋，……
Debate about whether or not artifacts are for ritual purposes always reminds me of a wonderful book by David Macaulay called "Motel of the Mysteries." [1] The publisher's description gives a good sense of it: "It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in…
《神秘汽车旅馆》是一本很棒的书，让人想象未来的人会怎么看待我们留下的东西。https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/039... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/07/15/i...
Motel of the Mysteries is a great book for imagining what people in the future will think about what we leave behind. https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/039... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/07/15/i...
还可以看看《神秘汽车旅馆》——一本青少年读物级别的书，配图极度丰富——讲述了遥远未来的社会发掘了一家80年代初的汽车旅馆，并将其解读为一个墓葬群，用来供奉贴砖之神米卡（Mica），可追溯至巅峰时期……
See also Motel of the Mysteries -- a YA-level book, lavishly illustrated -- about a far-future society uncovering an early-80s motel and interpreting it as a burial complex, dedicated to the tiling-god Mica and dating from the height…