| The Distance of the Moon, How Much Shall We Bet/Italo Calvino |
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卡尔维诺(Italo Calvino)
的两个短篇小说，The Distance of the Moon, How Much Shall We Bet，收入在他的
小说集《Cosmicomics》里头。
La Distanza della Luna (The Distance of the Moon)不是一篇小说，而是一 个超现实主义的画展，里面充满了一幅又一幅奇美的画面。在卡尔维诺笔下，月 亮离开地球的距离很近很近，以至于每当满月的时候，人们只需划着船，爬上梯 子就能到月亮上去了。
人们为什么要去月亮上呢？因为要去取月亮上的奶，moon-milk。
“我”爱上了船长Vhd Vhd的太太，可是她爱着“我”的堂兄，而“我”的堂兄 只为月亮动情，船长太太在月亮上弹着悲伤的竖琴，她对“我”无动于衷，却终 于理解到只有和月亮融为一体，才能得到“我”堂兄的爱。所以，船长太太就决 定呆在月亮上再也不回来了。
一个奇妙的平衡，维系在月球和地球之间的万有引力之间，维系在男人和女人之 间的吸引力之间。也许这就是这篇小说想要对我们说的话。
《Cosmicomics》是写给成年人的童话。读一读下面这段就知道卡尔维诺的奇妙 了：
“On those nights
the water was very calm, so silvery it looked like mercury, and the
fish in it, violet-colored, unable to resisit the Moon's attraction,
rose to the surface, all of them, and so did the octopuses and the
saffron medusas.
……
“Now, you will ask me what in the world we went up on the Moon for; I'll explain it to you. We went to collect the milk with a big spoon and a bucket. Moon-milk was very thick, like a kind of cream cheese.
……
“Because she had finally realized that my cousin loved only the Moon, and the only thing she wanted now was to become the Moon, to be assimilated into the object of that extrahuman love.”
2002年，芝加哥上演 了根据Calvino的La Distanza della Luna改编的歌剧The distance of the moon，导演是David Kersnar。
一篇关于《Cosmicomics》的评论。
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