我的哥哥斯蒂芬是四年前去世的。我不应该说去世,他是被杀害的。尽管那是一次谋杀,可我还是极力不把它当作谋杀去想,而把它想作是某种类似列车爆炸式的意外事故,或是象山崩那样的自然灾祸,也就是那种人们出于保险目的而所说的上帝的行为。他是死于别人的报复,或说是某人的那个报复主意,他是死于过多的正义。 My brother Stephen died four years ago. I should not say that he died. He was killed. Although it was a murder, I tried hard not to think of it as a murder, but to think of it as something like a train-borne accident or a natural disaster like a landslide, God’s act for the purpose of insurance. He died of other people’s revenge, or that someone’s revenge, he died of too much justice.