我看过霍桑为了排遣长期孤寂而写的日记片段;我介绍了霍桑两个短篇小说的简单内容;现在我引用《玉石雕像》的一些段落,听听霍桑自己是怎么说的。主题是拉丁历史学家谈过的罗马广场中央裂开的一口井或深渊,一个罗马人全副甲胄连人带马跳了进去祭神。霍桑是这样写的:“我们判断,”凯尼恩说,“这里就是地洞开口,英雄和骏马投身的地点。我们在想象中看到那个巨大黝黑的洞穴,深不可测,里面全是青面獠牙的妖魔鬼怪往上 I read Hawthorne ’s diary clips of longstanding loneliness; I introduced two simple pieces of Hawthorne’ s short story; now I quote some paragraphs from ”The Jade Stone Statue“ to hear how Hawthorne himself said it. The theme was a well or abyss split by the Latin historians in the heart of the Roman Forum. A Roman full-breasted armor jumped into the god offering. Hawthorne wrote: ”We judge, “ Kenyon said, ”Here is the opening of the cave, the hero and the location of the horse to join us in the imagination to see that huge dark cave, unfathomable, inside All green face fangs demons ghost up