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齐别根钮•赫伯特“猪笼草属”

来源：萌宠菠菠乐园时间：2025-11-22 12:40

猪笼草属①
柔弱的雅克•卢梭②知道猪笼草吗？
———林奈③描述过，他本该知道———
那他为何避开不提这大自然的丑闻？
诸多丑闻之一，但或许
对于这位在自然中只寻求慰藉的人，
这超出了他的听力与泪腺的承受力。
这是生长在婆罗洲黑暗丛林中的罪犯，
以一朵非花之花来引诱，
一片叶子的主脉却展开似水罐。
有一固定的盖子和很甜的口唇
吸引昆虫来到凶险的宴会，
像来到某个强权国家的秘密警察局。
因为谁能禁得起——不管飞虫还是人——
粘性的蜜露、色彩的狂欢
闪着白、紫和肉色，如妓院的窗户？
妓院老板有个漂亮女儿和老婆，
他将喝醉的被吸干血的客人送往
天堂或地狱，依据其价值。
维多利亚时代的人最喜欢
将风流的沙龙和酷刑室混合，
里面什么都有———绳索钉子毒药性皮鞭棺材
我们与猪笼草和平共处
在古拉格与集中营中，无心了解：
植物世界中———并不存在纯真。
注：①猪笼草，属于热带食虫植物。其拥有一个独特的吸取营养的器官——捕虫笼，捕虫笼呈圆筒形，下半部稍膨大，笼口上具有盖子，因其形状像猪笼而得名。猪笼草叶的构造复杂，分叶柄，叶身和卷须。卷须尾部扩大并反卷形成瓶状，可捕食昆虫。猪笼草具有总状花序，开绿色或紫色小花，叶顶的瓶状体是捕食昆虫的工具。瓶状体的瓶盖复面能分秘香味，引诱昆虫。瓶口光滑，昆虫会被滑落瓶内，被瓶底分泌的液体淹死，并分解虫体营养物质，逐渐消化吸收。
②即让-雅克·卢梭，法国启蒙时代思想家，崇尚热爱自然，认为自然中可以寻找慰藉。
③在1753年，瑞典博物学家林奈在《植物种志》中对猪笼草属命名并描述。
英译：
The Nepenthe Family
by Zbigniew Herbert
Did Jean-Jaques the Tender know about the pitcher plant
-it was described by Linnaeus he should have know it-
so why was he silent about this scandal of nature
one of many scandals but perhaps
beyond the capacity of the hear and tear glands
of the one who sought only comfort in nature
this is criminal grows in the dark jungles of Borneo
and lures with a flower that is not a flower
but the main vein of a leaf fanned out in the form of a pitcher
with a hinged lid and very sweet mouth
that draws insects to the treacherous banquet
like the secret police of a certain empire
for who can resist-fly or man-
the sticky nectars orgy of colors glowing with hues
of white of violet of meat like the windows of a red tavern
where a kind innkeeper with a beautiful daughter wife
sends the company of drunken guests drained of blood
to heaven or hell depending on their merits
it was a favorite of the Victorian decadents
combining the salon of debauchery with the torture chamber
everything was there-rope nails venom sex the knout the coffin
and we live peacefully with the pitcher plant
among gulags concentration camps with no concern for the knowledge
that innocence in the world of plants-does not exist
(translated by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter)