Brian W. Aldiss - The Skeleton

VIP免费

2024-11-24 0 0 15.45KB 2 页 5.9玖币

侵权投诉

The Official Brian W. Aldiss Web Site - Fiction - THE SKELETON

The Skeleton

The people lived in a spectacular setting, in a land where skyscrapers and

luxurious shopping centres mingled with palm trees and flowers, set on the

fringes of sandy beaches, warm seas and chilly economic realities.

One day, the people were taking an unpaid holiday on the beach when a

stranger appeared. He was tall, pale, solid, and had a shock of fair hair. The

people were astonished at the appearance of this young man, who threw

himself upon them and demanded their love.

He saw them draw back from him and said, "I want only to be accepted. Let

me stay here and be part of you. I need to be truly integrated."

He was asking for something they could not give. But they cordially invited

him to remain with them on the beach. It was not enough for him. He

jumped up and tore off his skin, throwing it aside like an old track-suit.

"At least you cannot say my skin is a different colour from yours."

They looked with astonishment at this man of scarlet, inviting him again to

stay with them beneath the palms.

But he could not feel himself properly accepted. This time he wrenched

away all his flesh, until only his gleaming white skeleton was left.

"Now you see that I have given all I have to be accepted by you."

And he danced before them so that his bones rattled.

At this the people were very surprised, and ran off to swim in the warm sea.

When they returned the skeleton was still there. Again they made him

welcome.

"But you still do not accept me as one of yourselves," the skeleton cried.

So they used him in their wayang as a figure of death. And then he was truly

integrated with them.

He even became a small commercial success.

file:///K|/BitLord/Downloads/LOPL/LoPL%20full%2004.1...6%20A%20-%20D/A/ALDISS,%20Brian.W/The%20Skeleton.htm (1 of 2)9-12-2006 0:19:40

文档加载中……请稍候！
如果长时间未打开，您也可以点击刷新试试。

下载文档到电脑，查找使用更方便

5.9 玖币 0人已下载

立即下载 VIP免费下载

Brian W. Aldiss - The Skeleton.pdf

共2页,预览1页

还剩页未读，继续阅读

声明：本站为文档C2C交易模式，即用户上传的文档直接被用户下载，本站只是中间服务平台，本站所有文档下载所得的收益归上传人(含作者)所有。玖贝云文库仅提供信息存储空间，仅对用户上传内容的表现方式做保护处理，对上载内容本身不做任何修改或编辑。若文档所含内容侵犯了您的版权或隐私，请立即通知玖贝云文库，我们立即给予删除！

Brian W. Aldiss - The Skeleton

相关推荐

开通VIP享超值会员特权

作者详情

相关内容

热门标签

举报选择: