The Interrogation
Amit Majmudar
When they leathered his arm to the armrest and began
like manicurists in a nail salon
he says that he "retreated" from his hand
until the part of him that dwelt there once was gone
and heard no news from his own outer reaches.
In his memoir1 of those years, he sketches
the tricks he used, one of which was "vision."
Maybe it's better we present his version:
"I imagined my arm as a slope I had to scale,
shaft of the humerus as smooth as shale
but white like bone and giving way like sand
wherever I set foot. I couldn't stand,
couldn't take a breather, or I'd ride my own
disintegration down and end up on
the shore -- which was my hand, my fingernails.
I crested2 my shoulder, rested on its knoll3.
I looked down then and saw the pain as men
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charging uphill to where I hid my sense
of pain. At once I stomped4 a foot to see
the whole arm crack, calve, crash into the sea,
disarticulated, part of me no more.
I did this for the other arm and for
my feet and testicles and eyes until
I found myself on a Pacific atoll
that had no latitude5, no longitude6.
I built a hut, I scuttled7 the one canoe.
I saw a sun that weighed a kiloton
and the power cord by which it swung."
1 memoir
n.[pl.]回憶錄，自傳；記事錄
參考例句：
He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他剛剛出了一本傳記來(lái)紀(jì)念他的隊(duì)長(zhǎng)。 In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那個(gè)女演員的自傳中，她寫(xiě)到了自己苦樂(lè)摻半的初戀。 <a hReF=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>家長(zhǎng)推薦的蘇州吳中作文輔導(dǎo)班</a>
2 crested
adj.有頂飾的，有紋章的，有冠毛的v.到達(dá)山頂（或浪峰）( crest的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞 )；到達(dá)洪峰，達(dá)到頂點(diǎn)
參考例句：
a great crested grebe 鳳頭?? The stately mansion crested the hill. 莊嚴(yán)的大廈位于山頂。 來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
3 knoll
n.小山，小丘
參考例句：
Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll.對(duì)于希爾弗來(lái)說(shuō)，爬上那小山丘真不是件容易事。 He crawled up a small knoll and surveyed the prospect.他慢騰騰地登上一個(gè)小丘，看了看周?chē)牡匦巍?
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4 stomped
v.跺腳，踐踏，重踏( stomp的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞 )
參考例句：
She stomped angrily out of the office. 她怒氣沖沖，重步走出辦公室。 She slammed the door and stomped (off) out of the house. 她砰的一聲關(guān)上了門(mén)，暮暮地走出了屋了。 來(lái)自辭典例句
5 latitude
n.緯度，行動(dòng)或言論的自由(范圍)，(pl.)地區(qū)
參考例句：
The latitude of the island is 20 degrees south.該島的緯度是南緯20度。 The two cities are at approximately the same latitude.這兩個(gè)城市差不多位于同一緯度上。
6 longitude
n.經(jīng)線，經(jīng)度
參考例句：
The city is at longitude 21°east.這個(gè)城市位于東經(jīng)21度。 He noted the latitude and longitude,then made a mark on the admiralty chart.他記下緯度和經(jīng)度，然后在航海圖上做了個(gè)標(biāo)記。
7 scuttled
v.使船沉沒(méi)( scuttle的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞 )；快跑，急走
參考例句：
She scuttled off when she heard the sound of his voice. 聽(tīng)到他的說(shuō)話聲，她趕緊跑開(kāi)了。 The thief scuttled off when he saw the policeman. 小偷看見(jiàn)警察來(lái)了便急忙跑掉。 來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
《The Interrogation》添加時(shí)間：2024-12-14；更新時(shí)間：2025-03-09
