标题: 《Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant 》作者： - Pratchett_ Terry【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-10 20:35 标题: 《Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant 》作者： - Pratchett_ Terry【EPUB】 Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant The Fifth Elephant A Discworld Novell by Terry Pratchett They say the world is flat and supported on the back of four elephants who themselvesstand on the back of a giant turtle. They say that the elephants being such huge beasts have bones of rock and iron andnerves of gold for better conductivity over long distances. They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raisemountains. No one actually saw it land which raised the interesting philosophical question: whenmillions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky and there is no one to hearit does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise And if there was no one to see it hit did it actually hit Not rock and iron in their dead form as they are now but living rock and iron. Thedwarfs have quite an inventive mythology about minerals.In other words wasnt it just a story for children to explain away some interestingnatural occurrences As for the dwarfs whose legend it is and who mine a lot deeper than other people they say that there is a grain of truth in it. On a clear day from the right vantage point on the Ramtops a watcher could see a verylong way across the plains. If it was high summer they could count the columns of dust as theox trains plodded on at a top speed of two miles an hour each pair pulling a trainof two wagons carrying four tons apiece. Things took a long time to get anywhere but whenthey did there was certainly a lot of them. To the cities of the Circle Sea they carried raw material and sometimes people who were off to seek their fortune and a fistful ofdiamonds. To the mountains they brought manufactured goods rare things from across the oceans and people who had found wisdom and a few scars. There was usually a days travelling between each convoy. They turned the