读过《Motel of the Mysteries》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
让人会心一笑的幽默小品,捎着讽刺了一把后世盲目追求古雅的人们,这应该算不上是David的用心之作吧。十几年前第一次接触到绘本就是David Macaulay的《鸽子的罗马》,后来他的书基本上见一本买一本。
Book
Motel of the Mysteries
Douban Goodreads Skybridge
Macaulay, David
publishing house:
Houghton Mifflin
1979
- 10
other title:
Motel of the Mysteries: In 4022, amateur archeologist Howard Carson unearths a sealed motel room and misreads 1980s America as a lost civilization
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.