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發(fā)表于 2017-2-5 15:39:47
諾克斯十誡[url=]編輯[/url]
1 The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.
罪犯必須是故事開始時出現(xiàn)過的人,但不得是讀者可以追蹤其思想的人。
2 All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
偵探不能用超自然的或怪異的偵探方法
3 Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.
犯罪現(xiàn)場不能有超過一個秘密房間或通道
4 No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
作案時候,不能使用尚未發(fā)明的毒藥,或需要進(jìn)行深奧的科學(xué)解釋的裝置
5 No Chinaman must figure in the story.
不準(zhǔn)有中國人出現(xiàn)在故事里(備注1)
6 No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
偵探不得用偶然事件或不負(fù)責(zé)任的直覺來偵破案件
7 The detective must not himself commit the crime.
偵探不得成為罪犯
8 The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.
偵探不得根據(jù)小說中未向讀者提示過的線索破案
9 The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
偵探的笨蛋朋友,比如華生,必須將其判斷毫無保留地告訴讀者,此人的智力須輕微低于讀者的平均水平。
10 Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.
小說中如果有雙胞胎或雙重身份的人時,必須提前告訴人們
*備注1 說一下,諾克斯十戒第五條并不存在歧視或者妖魔化。事實(shí)上,諾克斯十戒第五條和第二條并不相同,并不是為了排除超自然現(xiàn)象。諾克斯也沒認(rèn)為亞洲人有什么奇異的能力。諾克斯十戒第五條想表達(dá)的意思是:“不準(zhǔn)有武林高手出現(xiàn)在故事里。”
第五條是為了避免出現(xiàn)下面這樣的情況:
假定一個被害者被砸碎頭顱而死,卻始終找不到兇器。鋪墊了一大堆到最后卻告訴你兇手其實(shí)是個練家子,徒手把人腦袋砸了。或者,被害人心臟突然停止而沒有其它外傷,最后卻告訴你是被人近距離以寸拳擊中心窩。 這兩種情況都不是超現(xiàn)實(shí)的東西,練過的人的確是可以徒手砸碎椰子殼(人頭顱和椰子殼強(qiáng)度類似),寸拳(也被稱為死拳)也的確可以瞬間讓心臟停搏致死。但是,這種現(xiàn)實(shí)本身就和秘密通道一樣是一種對讀者的作弊行為,因?yàn)樽x者并不會去考慮這種作者不說就不可能知道的可能性。 |
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