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Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in wkkk.net the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.'A superb tragedy … the book should become a classic.' Sunday Telegraph'A marvel.' Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books.胡适:如今我们回来了
这是胡适一九一七年三月八日写在日记上的一段话。注明是《伊利亚特》第十八章第125行。他不是直接从该书中摘录的。日记中说,英国十九世纪的宗教改良运动未起时,其未来的领袖纽曼(Newman)、傅鲁得(Froude)、客白儿(Keble)诸人久以改良宗教相期许。三人将其所作的宗教诗歌合为一集,纽曼取荷马诗中这句话题其上。其意若曰:“如今我们回来,你们请看分晓罢。”日记中又说,此亦可作吾辈留学生之先锋旗也。多年后,胡适又一次重译这句话时,作了稍许的改动。