Preface The madman talks about dreams
"I'm British......" said Mr. Dahl, pushing his glasses, very seriously.
"Not really," I quipped, looking at the yellow-skinned, dark-eyed, flat-nosed man, "if ......"
"What if?"
"If you raise your nose a little higher," I said, "some people may believe it, but the eyes and hair ......."
"My nose is mortgaged to God, so I can only be reincarnated as an Oriental. He said.
"To put it this way, my stature is also mortgaged to God. "Hearing him say that, I, a short man, suddenly found the reason why I didn't grow tall.
"No kidding," he said seriously, "do you know who I am?"
"Mr. Dahl, you're not sick. "Mr. Dahl's words became more and more bizarre, and at first I thought he was going to joke with me, but now I felt that something was not quite right, and I touched his forehead with my hand, but it was not hot.
Mr. Dahl was my elementary school classmate, we grew up together, we were friends who talked about everything, and if one of us was a woman, it would be a childhood sweetheart, but unfortunately, we were neither the opposite sex nor homosexual.
I know everything about him.
"Of course I'm not sick," he said, "and you must be surprised that I'm Darwin......
"When did you add the word 'Wen' to your name? Is it because you are 'sensitive and studious, and you are not ashamed to ask'?"
The students all know the name Dahl.
New students are required to fill out an application form.
"What's your name?" asked the dean of academic beings, a young boy who had come to sign up.
"I don't have a name. ”
"And what's your last name?"
"The surname is Da. ”
"What if you don't have a name?"
"Teacher, give it up. The little boy looked timidly at the dean.
In rural areas, some uneducated parents do not know how to name their children, and it is common for teachers to go to school to name them.
"What's the name for you?" the Dean of Academic Affairs thought for a moment.
"What did you call me just now?" the child asked.
"You ......" The director of education didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the child's gourd.
"Then call it 'you'. ”
The director of academic affairs was about to get angry, thinking that the child was mischievous, but when he looked at the child, he actually looked sincere.
Anyway, I couldn't think of a suitable name for a while, so the director of academic affairs simply wrote a 'you' word on the paper, who would have thought that after such a toss just now, the tip of the pen was dry, and the words written were missing a single person, becoming a 'er' word.
"Dahl ......," said the dean of academic affairs excitedly.
It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. At that time, it was popular to learn "Paul", and the word "Dahl" was very fashionable.
Because of this good name, everyone has followed suit, Zhang Er, Wang Er, Lear, Zhao Er, everywhere. There is also a man surnamed Lang, who was not originally called 'Er', but was nicknamed "Wolf Ear" (we call the little wolf cub 'Wolf Ear' there).
"It's not an addition," said Dahl, "I'm Darwin the Biologist." ”
"You are Darwin, who proposed the theory of evolution and published his book The Origin of Species?"
"Exactly. ”
"Exactly nonsense. I said.
Darwin's name is known to women and children, and he has been out of this world for hundreds of years, and today someone comes to pretend to be Darwin, and no one will believe it.
I thought he was crazy, so this conversation ended like that. Despite his best efforts to explain, I didn't give him a chance.
He came to me several times and wrote me a long letter explaining to me, but I never believed it, because he was so outrageous, without any scientific basis, and very different from what I had learned.
He told me about his so-called experience, and he used the fashionable phrase, "Darwin went to heaven, and God smiled." ”
I didn't laugh at this, because a great man said that when Mr. Maddy went to heaven, God laughed. The original words may not be said like this, mainly to express the memory and praise of Mr. Ma Ji.
"It's a mockery," he continued, seeing that I had no expression, "after Darwin ascended to heaven, God smiled at him, and the gods around him also smiled at him, but he was at a loss for himself, and he fixed his mind and asked God what he was laughing at, and God said, 'You are really a genius novelist!' He wondered even more, he had never written a novel before! God smiled and said, 'Isn't your 'Origin of Species' a very good novel? Darwin felt that he had been greatly insulted, and as a rigorous biologist, no one dared to insult him and his doctrine in such a way. This book is the culmination of his life's work, and his doctrine is also recognized by the world. ”
"What happened then?" I asked, listening to him have a lot of fun.
"Darwin, like a college graduate defending his dissertation, told God and the gods about his teachings and experiences, and at first they were still laughing, and then they stopped laughing. ”
"They recognized Darwin's doctrine?"
"No, they were moved by Darwin's spirit. ”
The scene flashed in my mind for no reason: in a primeval forest infested with miasma, ferocious beasts, a professor-like man hid in a tree and watched intently how the carnivores hunted, and at some point, a caterpillar had wandered from his hair to his face, and then entered the gate through the neckline, swaggering about its long journey...... , and the professor didn't know it.
When the carnivore had already run away, and the professor was still unsatisfied, he suddenly felt itchy and uncomfortable, and then he took out a small tweezer from his bag and gently untied his clothes......
"It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. The professor had long forgotten the itch on his body, and he was unexpectedly satisfied and surprised.
The skin crawling through the caterpillar leaves a bunch of dune-like bumps, which is very itchy, and I don't think anyone but biologists can bear it.
This kind of thing happens a lot to biologists like Darwin, and they feel like it's a piece of cake, a little tidbit in life.
Somehow, I suddenly became a little indignant, I "Teng" stood up, pulled him up and left, "Go, judge ......"
"Who's going to judge?" he asked me in surprise, standing still.
"Find ......"
Before the word "emperor" was uttered, I immediately felt that I was a little abrupt: Who is God? God is the leader of the people of the whole universe. How can a leader be at fault? If it is wrong, it is also the fault of the subordinates or the staff. How can God be blamed?
"Listen to me," Dahl continued, seeing that I had calmed down. "God took me to a computer and clicked on the keyboard to show me the origins of life on Earth, and I wiped my sweat as I watched, and my reasoning, which I thought was seamless, turned out to be as absurd as the Arabian Nights. When I had read this, I said to God, 'Please let me go back to earth again, and I will revise my doctrine.' ’”
"God agreed?"
"Nope. ”
"Why?"
"God said, 'It's useless to go back, people won't believe you.'" Live your life in heaven. But I could not be at ease, I could not let my error be passed on from generation to generation, so I begged for it, and God reluctantly agreed that I should come back to earth again. ”
"Is it so difficult to return to the earth?" I asked, a little puzzled, "Aren't all the people in heaven ascending from the earth?"
"That's right, but the rule in heaven is 'you can go up but not down,' and besides, in that high heaven, who enjoys the glory and wealth that there is no earthly being, who wants to leave? Who wants to go back to the world and suffer? But they still made such a rule just in case. ”
"There must be a lot of people stopping you," I said, "and once a daredevil, there will be a lot of people who will be upset." ”
"You've guessed right," he said, "and immediately a lot of people talked to me, handed me notes, gave me gifts, and gave me a bullet. ”
"What happened in the end?"
"In the end, they couldn't resist me, so they took a compromise and let me go back to Earth temporarily, but I was not allowed to return to England, and mortgaged my nose to heaven, no, I came to China, I didn't expect that such a toss, hundreds of years have passed on Earth. ”
"Are you a temporary cadre?" somehow I suddenly came up with such a word.
"So to speak," he said, "but my main task is to revise my doctrine and present the real to mankind." ”
I suddenly became in awe of him, I have not heard of anyone who said that the theory he created after most of his life is a fallacy, and I hope people will not believe it.
"You should write your paper and publish it in some authoritative journal. "I can't wait.
"It's useless, no one publishes it to me, they say, these things can only be used as children's books, for children to read, not academic. ”
"It seems that this trip has come in vain," I said, "and God is right, 'People will not believe you.'" ’”
I saw Dahl's expression very depressed, he was born in a peasant family, his parents were illiterate, although he studied well and had great ambitions, but his parents did not provide for him to go to high school and college, so he was not highly educated and could not achieve his ideals.
So I thought what he said above was made up, but I still didn't want to hurt his heart too much, so I said, "It's okay, I'll believe you." ”
I saw a strange light in its eyes, and he held my hand tightly, unable to speak.
After that, he often came to me and told me what he knew.
However, my memory is not very good, and after a long time, I have forgotten a lot. I gathered all these bits and pieces, and managed to scrape together a few books, and showed them to Mr. Dahl, who was quite satisfied, and said that he could take them out and publish them.