（外文电子版资料）Robert Silverberg - Gilgamesh in the Outback.pdf

Gilgamesh in the Outback Robert Silverberg A DF Books NERD’s Release Copyright (C)1986 Agberg, Ltd. First published in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, July 1986 Faust. First I will question thee about hell. Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? Meph. Under the heavens. Faust. Ay, but whereabout? Meph. Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are torturd and remain for ever: Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribd In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Faust.Come, I think hells a fable. Meph.Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind. Marlowe:Dr. Faustus Jagged green lightning danced on the horizon and the wind came ripping like a blade out of the east, skinning the flat land bare and sending up clouds of gray-brown dust. Gilgamesh grinned broadly. By Enlil, now that was a wind! A lion-killing wind it was, a wind that turned the air dry and crackling. The beasts of the field gave you the greatest joy in their hunting when the wind was like that, hard and sharp and cruel. He narrowed his eyes and stared into the distance, searching for this days prey. His bow of several fine woods, the bow that no man but he was strong enough to draw— no man but he and Enkidu his beloved thrice-lost friend—hung loosely from his hand. His body was poised and ready. Come now, you beasts! Come and be slain! It is Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, who would make his sport with you this day! Other men in this land, when they went about their hunting, made use of guns, those foul machines that the New Dead had brought, which hurled death from a great distance along with much noise and fire and smoke; or they employed the even deadlier laser devices from who