Gore Vidal 的《创世记》（Creation）是以公元前 5 世纪波斯驻雅典大使的口吻写的。非常有趣。从这个视角看，希腊人不过是真正文明边缘的一群海盗和偷牛贼。
Gore Vidal wrote Creation as penned by the Persian ambassador in Athens in the 5th century BC. Highly amusing. Seen from that viewpoint, the Greeks were just a bunch of pirates and cattle raiders on the edges of real civilization.
如果你喜欢这类东西，你可能会喜欢 Gore Vidal 的《创世记》（Creation）一书：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_(novel) 故事跟随虚构的“Cyrus Spitama”的冒险，他是公元前 6 至 5 世纪的阿契美尼德波斯外交官，游历已知世界……
If you like this sort of thing, you may enjoy Gore Vidal's Creation book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_(novel) The story follows the adventures of a fictional "Cyrus Spitama", an Achaemenid Persian diplomat of the 6th-5th century BCE who travels the known world…
……对一本书感兴趣，尽管费尽心思去找其中有趣之处，那也是在浪费时间。最该读的书不一定是最好的书。比如，我刚巧拿起 Gore Vidal 的《Creation》，当时正读到一半的《Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind》，那本书是我在一次因文化观念不合而痛苦的分手后碰巧拿起的。这是个愉快的巧合，……
…interested in a book, despite working hard to find something of interest in it, then I'm wasting my time. The best books to read aren't necessarily the best books. For example, I just happened to pick up Creation by Gore Vidal while halfway through Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind which I happened to pick up after a painful breakup caused by incompatible cultural assumptions. It was a happy coincidence,…
有意思，就在几周前，一个朋友推荐了 Gore Vidal 的历史小说《Creation》，作者是琐罗亚斯德的孙子。他设法见到了苏格拉底、佛陀和孔子，这在某个时间点其实是可能的。（我不喜欢 Vidal 的写作，我觉得……
Funny, just a couple weeks ago a friend recommended Gore Vidal's historical novel Creation, where the author is a grandson of Zoroaster. He manages to meet Socrates, the Buddha, and Confucius, which was actually possible at a certain point. (I don't like Vidal's writing, which I find to be…
我读了 Gore Vidal 的《创世记》（Creation），被他对古典世界的想象力和知识震撼了。他的其他书也在我的书单上。
I read Creation by Gore Vidal and I was blown away by his imagination and knowledge of the classical world. His other books are on my list.
Gore Vidal 的《创世记》（Creation）是以公元前 5 世纪波斯驻雅典大使的口吻写的。非常有趣。从这个视角看，希腊人不过是真正文明边缘的一群海盗和偷牛贼。
Gore Vidal wrote Creation as penned by the Persian ambassador in Athens in the 5th century BC. Highly amusing. Seen from that viewpoint, the Greeks were just a bunch of pirates and cattle raiders on the edges of real civilization.
如果你喜欢这类东西，你可能会喜欢 Gore Vidal 的《创世记》（Creation）一书：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_(novel) 故事跟随虚构的“Cyrus Spitama”的冒险，他是公元前 6 至 5 世纪的阿契美尼德波斯外交官，游历已知世界……
If you like this sort of thing, you may enjoy Gore Vidal's Creation book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_(novel) The story follows the adventures of a fictional "Cyrus Spitama", an Achaemenid Persian diplomat of the 6th-5th century BCE who travels the known world…
……对一本书感兴趣，尽管费尽心思去找其中有趣之处，那也是在浪费时间。最该读的书不一定是最好的书。比如，我刚巧拿起 Gore Vidal 的《Creation》，当时正读到一半的《Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind》，那本书是我在一次因文化观念不合而痛苦的分手后碰巧拿起的。这是个愉快的巧合，……
…interested in a book, despite working hard to find something of interest in it, then I'm wasting my time. The best books to read aren't necessarily the best books. For example, I just happened to pick up Creation by Gore Vidal while halfway through Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind which I happened to pick up after a painful breakup caused by incompatible cultural assumptions. It was a happy coincidence,…
有意思，就在几周前，一个朋友推荐了 Gore Vidal 的历史小说《Creation》，作者是琐罗亚斯德的孙子。他设法见到了苏格拉底、佛陀和孔子，这在某个时间点其实是可能的。（我不喜欢 Vidal 的写作，我觉得……
Funny, just a couple weeks ago a friend recommended Gore Vidal's historical novel Creation, where the author is a grandson of Zoroaster. He manages to meet Socrates, the Buddha, and Confucius, which was actually possible at a certain point. (I don't like Vidal's writing, which I find to be…