标题: 《The Fife Of Bodidharma》作者： - Cordwainer Smith【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-11-18 13:09 标题: 《The Fife Of Bodidharma》作者： - Cordwainer Smith【EPUB】 Choose font preferences: The Fife of Bodidharma by Cordwainer Smith Music (said Confucius) awakens the mind, propriety finishes it, melody completes it. —The Lun Yu, Book VIII, Chapter 8 I It was perhaps in the second period of the proto-Indian Harappa culture, perhaps earlier in the very dawn of metal, that a goldsmith accidentally found a formula to make a magical fife. To him, the fife became death or bliss, an avenue to choosable salvations or dooms. Among later men, the fife might be recognized as a chancy prediscovery of psionic powers with sonic triggering. Whatever it was, it worked! Long before the Buddha, long-haired Dravidian priests learned that it worked. Cast mostly in gold despite the goldsmith's care with the speculum alloy, the fife emitted shrill whistlings but it also transmitted supersonic vibrations in a narrow range—narrow and intense enough a range to rearrange synapses in the brain and to modify the basic emotions of the hearer. The goldsmith did not long survive his instrument. They found him dead. The fife became the property of priests; after a short, terrible period of use and abuse, it was buried in the tomb of a