【Book of Hours/司辰之书】1902: Skolekosophy 原文及翻译
1902 蠕虫学
意大利韦莱特里
1902年三月二十五日
致
伦敦警察局夜间事务司负责人
维多利亚堤岸
伦敦
温福德警司—
请考虑这些我在奥尔图基奥(Ortucchio)查抄的材料的封存材料和评估报告。 我知道（您之前曾提醒过我）政府部门分发了我们在提交报告时被要求遵循的标准格式，但奥尔图基奥发生的事使这有些不切实际。 因此，我在格式上给予了自己一定的自由度。
I.头骨，畸形，或非人类头骨。 其异常特质与‘拉维林病’(La Malaise Raveline)相一致，标准评估表明其存在可预见的梦魇风险。 已销毁（粉碎并稀释）。
II.三箱拉维林酒庄葡萄酒(Domaine Raveline)，酿造于1865 年。标准评估表明没有明显的梦魇风险。保留用于销售及回收开支。（警司先生，您通常认为您有必要提醒我有关隐含危险的条例。反过来，我通常也认为有必要提醒您，我明白自己在做什么。）
III.绘画作品，油画，十九世纪末，创作者不详。表现为月光下一座覆雪城市的景色。附有当代标识“无冕之阿拜多斯”(Abydos Uncrowned)。 标准评估清楚地表明其有重大的梦魇危险。已销毁（焚烧）。
IV.《富兰克林·班克罗夫特勋爵1762-1770年日记》(Diaries of Lord Franklin Bancroft 1762-1770)，1889 年由Cater & Sons出版社重印。我很清楚，我司的保管库中包含被授权托管的该文本的两个副本，并且我总的来说希望能将其焚烧处理。然而，我的好友多托尔 罗比戈（Dottore Robigo）很有说服力地指出，它们包含对于我在这里的工作很有帮助的材料。作保留处理。
V.杀人魔镜，成分未知。清晰且直接的梦魇危害。已销毁（在避开光照的情况下粉碎并稀释）。
VI.《金色午后的孩童宝库》(A child’s Treasury of Golden Afternoon)，雅各布·格里斯特伍德(Jacob Gristwood)著。显然，我知道当前关于这部作品的焚烧令，但这可能是唯一仍然存在的副本，而且坦率地讲，我司可用的蠕虫学相关资料匮乏的令人尴尬。经过详细的检查，以及与我的好友多托尔的讨论，我确定该文本价值极大，不宜销毁。作保留处理。
VII.奇异的三联画，油画，十六世纪；一场宏大的加冕弥撒及众多跪拜的人物形象。对异端基督教丰收节的生动描绘。标准评估（在适当进行解释的情况下）表明梦魇危险可以忽略不计；正是通过这项工作，我结识了我的好友多托尔 罗比戈。故保留。
VIII.银手，真人尺寸，铭文可能是古波斯文。标准评估表明存在轻微的梦魇危险。然而，鉴于目前的行动急需资金，我确定这件艺术品的残余价值超过了其向公众出售的价值。保留用于销售及回收开支。
IX.三份十年额度的寿命汇票的纸质材料（‘偷来的十年’）,有着清算人的标记。奥尔图基奥的杜福尔家族（Duffoures）的可疑的长寿就是我们这次查抄行动的正当性来源之一。其与清算人的联系清晰的解释了这种长寿的原因，其他书面证据（对这次A&S报告来说无关紧要）也佐证了这个结论。尽管最近事态有所发展（见下文），但出于职业礼节考虑，我倾向于将这份报告提交给你。我已决定保留寿命汇票供我自己使用。我的身体状况发展良好，但目前我正接近一个关键阶段，因此我必须采取一切必要的手段来维持我的健康。保留供个人使用（已批准）。
X.经干燥处理的有机物质，或为胎膜。尝起来确实有新生的味道。标准评估表明存在重大梦魇风险；我弥足珍贵的朋友多托尔 罗比戈提出了一种比焚烧更安全的方法。已收容入腹内。
我在写这些的时候就已经开始变得很不耐烦了，无论如何，你很少对我的报告给予应有的关注。我的报告到此结束。接下来是一份私人便条。
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我现在向您提出立即而有力的辞呈。在深思熟虑后，温福德警司——我很震惊，我竟允许自己长期参与英国政府的非法行动——在一个高贵的主权国家境内——在一个短视且毫无光彩可言的事业中——在一个像你这样渺小而又迟钝的人的命令之下。
我已经没收了原本为意大利夜间事物司运作提供的资金。在省当局（当然还有亲爱的多托尔 罗比戈）的协助下，我将使用这些资金资助韦莱特里大学(Università Velletri)的蠕虫学系——尽管多托尔和我已经决定，为了尽量减少麻烦的干扰，我们的公开身份将是一个研究真菌学的部门。现在我已经摆脱了你们的纠缠和精神可嘉的干涉，我接下来打算在身体和精神上得到最大程度的滋长。
我希望，根据我选择在这里分享的信息，你们将重新考量你们长期以来所采用的静态和枯燥的模式，并转而考虑一种以孳生为导向的哲学的可能性。如果您在这方面需要我的帮助，欢迎您访问我在韦莱特里的新部门，在那里，我和我最优秀的朋友多托尔 罗比戈将为您提供最紧急和最有效的帮助。
你的，
[无从辨认的污迹]
后记：
在十九世纪末二十世纪初，伦敦警察局的夜间事务司负责保护防范那些“不体面和超自然的麻烦”。“在奥尔图奇奥事件发生后，该部门被拆除，其职能被划入了防剿局。”
PS1：读着读着突然毛骨悚然，看了三分之一才意识到这是一个在行动中受到了污染而不自知的调查员写下的文字。
PS2;：影响了该文本写作者的司辰疑似戴冠之孳。
PS3：有关‘拉维林病’的更多信息参见CulSim 灰机wiki的“拉维林家族”词条主页。
PS4：部分条目中提到的物品在CulSim 灰机wiki中有对应词条，不一一列举。
原文
1902: Skolekosophy
Velletri, Italy
March 25th
1902
Superintendent
Nocturnal Branch
New Scotland Yard
Victoria Embankment
London
Superintendent Wynford -
Please consider this my Sequestration & Assessment Report for materials seized at Ortucchio. I am aware (you have reminded me on previous occasions) that Administration distributes forms that we are generally expected to use for these reports, but events since Ortucchio have made that impractical. Consequently I have allowed myself latitude in the format.
i. Skull, deformed/abhuman. Abnormalities consistent with la malaise Raveline, and the standard assessments suggested the expected oneiric risk. Destroyed (pulverisation and dilution).
ii. Three cases Domaine Raveline, 1865 vintage. Standard assessments suggested no discernible oneiric hazard. Retained for sale and expenses recoup. (You generally feel compelled to remind me, Superintendent, of the regulations on implied hazard. In turn I generally feel compelled to remind you that I know what I'm doing.)
ii. Painting, oils, late nineteenth century, artist unknown. Moonlit view of snowy city. Contemporary label identifies it as 'Abydos Uncrowned'. Standard assessments clearly indicated significant oneiric hazard. Destroyed (incineration).
iv. 'Diaries of Lord Franklin Bancroft 1762-1770', 1889 Cater & Sons reprint. I am well aware that the Branch depository contains the mandated two copies of this edition and that I would normally be expected to consign it to the flames. However my good friend Dottore Robigo has argued persuasively that they contain material important to my work here. Retained.
v. Muriabolic mirror, composition unknown. Clear and immediate oneiric hazard. Destroyed (pulverisation in the absence of light, dilution).
vi. 'A Child's Treasury of Golden Afternoons', Jacob Gristwood. Clearly I am aware of the Standing Incineration Order on this work but this may be the only copy still in existence and the skolekosophic resources available to the Branch are frankly embarrassing in their paucity. After a detailed examination, not to mention discussion with my very good friend the Dottore, I have determined that it is much too valuable to be destroyed. Retained.
vii. Fantastical triptych, oils,sixteenth century; prodigious enthroned mass adored by kneeling figures. Vibrant depiction of heterodox Christian harvest festival. Standard assessments (when suitably interpreted) indicate negligible oneiric hazard; and it was through this work that I made the acquaintance of my very good friend Dott. Robigo. Retained.
viii. Silver hand, life-sized, inscription probably antique Persian. Standard assessments suggest minor oneiric hazard. However given this operation's urgent need for funds, I have determined that the scrap value of the piece outweighs its sale to the public. Retained for sale and expenses recoup.
ix. Three ten-year vital-extension bond documents ('stolen decades') with Reckoner markings. The suspicious longevity of the Duffoures of Ortucchio, was, you recall, one of the concerns that justified this seizure operation. That longevity is neatly explained by a Reckoner connection and other documentary evidence (not material to an A&S Report) also supports this conclusion. Despite recent developments (see below) I am inclined to forward this evidence to you as a professional courtesy. I have however resolved to retain the vital-extension bonds for my own use. My physical development proceeds admirably but I am approaching a critical stage at which I must take all necessary means to sustain my health. Retained for personal use (approved).
x. Desiccated organic material, probably amniotic membrane ('caul'). It certainly tastes like birth. Standard assessments indicate significant oneiric hazard; my invaluable friend Dott. Robigo has suggested a safer procedure than incineration. Incorporated into abdomen.
I have become impatient as I write, and in any case I have rarely known you to pay my reports the attention they deserve. This concludes my report. A personal note follows.
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I now tender to you my immediate and vigorous resignation. On sombre reflection, Superintendent Wynford - I am appalled that I permitted myself to be involved for so long in the illegal operations of the British Government - in a sovereign and noble nation - in a myopic and ignoble cause - under the orders of a man as minimal and sluggish as yourself.
I have expropriated the funds originally provided for Nocturnal Branch operations in Italy. With the assistance of the provincial authorities (and of course of dear Dottore Robigo) I am using those funds to endow a Skolekosophy Department at the Università Velletri - though the Dottore and I have resolved that to minimise troublesome interference we will operate publicly as a Department of Mycology. Now that I am free of your pettifogging and pious interference, I intend to expand both physically and mentally to the fullest possible extent.
I hope that in light of the information I have chosen to share here, you will reconsider the static and sterile mode in which you have so long developed, and address yourself instead to the possibilities of a more growth-oriented philosophy. Should you need my assistance in this alteration, you are welcome to visit my new Department in Velletri, where I, and my most excellent friend Dottore Robigo, will tender you our most urgent and productive assistance.
Yours,
[indecipherable smear]
Afterword:
At the turn of the century, the Nocturnal Branch of the Metropolitan Police was responsible for protection against 'troubles unseemly and occult.' After the fallout from the Ortucchio Incident, the Branch was dismantled and its functions absorbed into the civilian Suppression Bureau.
