杰里米·吉尔传：十三条传说鱼、一张邀请函，和留在岸上的那顶帽子

「人们经常紧张，其实完全没必要……我就是个普通人。只不过，嗯，碰巧……非常有名。」（People often get nervous but there's really no need to...I'm just a normal guy. Who, well, happens to be...very famous.）1

木屋，和墙上那些鱼

十三条鱼

他写在纸上的东西

「那趟我回到小村子时已经名声在外，镇上人一路欢呼，把我送进一家舒服的酒馆。一个可爱的姑娘坐到我腿上，敲着宝思兰鼓，唱了一首关于我钓技的打油诗，她母亲把鱼做成了晚饭，全村子一起分了。他们甚至为我开了一座教堂。」（…the townspeople hallooed and escorted me to a delightful pub where a lovely girl sat on my lap and played the bodhran, singing a limerick about my angling skills… They even opened a church in my honor.）20

「你知不知道鲑鱼会回到它出生的那条河里产卵，然后立刻死掉？想象一下，整个青春都在放开肚子吃喝，回到你父母交合的那张床上，做这辈子第一次那件事，然后当场倒地。」（…returning to the very bed in which your parents conceived you, having carnal relations for the first time in your life and then dropping dead!）21

「我曾在众目睽睽之下用一只活老鼠当饵，围观的人群高兴得不行。别操心低等动物的痛感，它们是些互相吞食的愚昧畜生，被造出来就是给我们取乐的。」（Do not worry about the sense of pain in lower animals, for they are ignorant beasts that prey upon one another and were created for our amusement.）22

一整天、一整夜，然后鱼线动了

岸上剩下的东西

他一直想钓的那条鱼

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