标题: 《All the Wonder in the World》作者： - Lavie Tidhar【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-3-28 09:19 标题: 《All the Wonder in the World》作者： - Lavie Tidhar【EPUB】 All the Wonder in the World Lavie Tidhar It began, the way these things usually do, with a rain of frogs. The frogs made a sound like wet pebbles as they hit the old copper roof of his shack; Ibrahim the alte-zachen man sat outside in the shade of the fig tree and watched out over Haifa's harbour. The secular press reported the phenomenon as natural, but did not forget to quote the Rabbis and the Safed Kabbalists who both pronounced it an Act of God. As usual, both sides were wrong: Ibrahim recognised the signs the night before when the frogs first began falling from the skies. And he recognised the wild scent that blew on the sea breeze inland and suffused the air over the city; it had the tang of salt and an ancient wildness only a few remaining might have recognised. Ibrahim had sent Noah the blind beggar to sit in the harbour and watch the ships come in. Noah was perhaps slow, at times, but his missing left eye had been replaced – how long ago or by whom even Ibrahim didn't know - by a stone of amethyst, enabling him to sometimes see further than others. The alte-zachen man sat in the small junkyard high on the slopes