With this in mind, I took myself to churchyards during the most secret hours of darkness. There I saw how the power and vigour of the human form became mere food for worms.
In the bodies which I dug up I saw corruption and decay, and from this I gained a deeper knowledge of how things came to be alive. I toiled long and hard, ignoring what all this work was doing to my poor mind and body, and eventually I had my reward. Towards the end of one fateful night, I looked down at the dead flesh I had pinned to my workbench and I saw it move.
I had created life!
Now, looking back on all the dreadful things that were to come, I can only think of that discovery with horror. Then, however, it seemed to me to be a marvel, a triumph of my own brilliance.
注释:墓地
备注:美 [ˈtʃɜːtʃjɑːd]
英 [ˈtʃɜːtʃjɑːd]
n. 境内;教堂院落,多做墓地
n. (Churchyard)人名;(英)丘奇亚德
churchyards
墓地
Eudora WeltyCountry Churchyards
公墓影像