献给卡迪
For Cady

你在死亡中探究生命的意义，
You that seek what life is in death,

你见证生前的呼吸化作死后的空气。
Now find it air that once was breath.

新人尚不可知，故旧早已逝去：
New names unknown, old names gone:

躯体有尽时，灵魂无绝期。
Till time end bodies, but souls none.

读者啊，趁生之欢愉，快与时间同行，
Reader! then make time, while you be,

共赴永恒生命！
But steps to your eternity.

——福尔克·格莱维尔（布鲁克伯爵）《卡伊利卡》
—Baron Brooke Fulke Greville, “Caelica 83”