马丁笔下的死亡是我见过的最真挚,最动情,最温柔,也最哀伤,最不血腥的场景之一,下出自七王国的骑士:
A queer troubled look passed across Baelor Breakspear’s face, like a cloud passing before a sun. He raised his hand and touched the back of his head with two fingers, oh so lightly. And then he fell.
——Martin, George R. R.. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (A Song of Ice and Fire) (p. 112). Random House Publishing Group
And then he fell... ...
我只从中看出了哀伤。
凯特琳的死:
It hurts so much, she thought. Our children, Ned, all our sweet babes. Rickon, Bran, Arya, Sansa, Robb … Robb … please, Ned, please, make it stop, make it stop hurting … The white tears and the red ones ran together until her face was torn and tattered, the face that Ned had loved. Catelyn Stark raised her hands and watched the blood run down her long fingers, over her wrists, beneath the sleeves of her gown. Slow red worms crawled along her arms and under her clothes. It tickles. That made her laugh until she screamed. “Mad,” someone said, “she’s lost her wits,” and someone else said, “Make an end,” and a hand grabbed her scalp just as she’d done with Jinglebell, and she thought, No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold.
——Martin, George R. R.. George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons (pp. 2533-2534). Random House Publishing Group.
这里面哪里有血腥?只有哀伤,难以用言语表达的哀伤··· ···
死亡是一件严肃的事情,马丁笔下的这个主题永远有足够的肃穆,这是格外难能可贵的。