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主题:杰克伦敦的短文《黄祸》和小说《空前入侵》 -- CaoMeng

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家园 花一个,我觉得关于最后的信仰那一段应该是自我安慰,看看

他后来写的可以对照一下。5年后在1909年,他写道:

“The point that I have striven to make is that much of the reasoning of the white race about the Japanese is erroneous, because is it based on fancied knowledge of the stuff and fiber of the Japanese mind. An American lady of my acquaintance, after residing for months in Japan, in response to a query as to how she liked the Japanese, said: “They have no souls.”

In this she was wrong. The Japanese are just as much possessed of a soul as she and the rest of her race. And far be it from me to infer that the Japanese soul is in the smallest way inferior to the Western soul. It may even be superior. You see, we do not know the Japanese soul, and what its value may be in the scheme of things. And yet that American lady’s remark but emphasizes the point. So different was the Japanese soul from hers, so unutterably alien, so absolutely without any kinship or means of communication, that to her there was no slightest sign of its existence.”

不是东方人没有灵魂,只是西方人无法了解东方人的灵魂。

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