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The Egg
2010 — 2018，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
《The Egg（蛋）》是 Andy Weir（《火星救援》作者）创作的著名科幻短篇：主角死后与'神'对话，得知宇宙中所有生命其实都是同一个灵魂的无数次转世，最终将成长为神。故事多次登上 HN 首页，广为流传。
为什么经久不衰：它用极短的篇幅给出一个关于生命与轮回的震撼设定，文笔简洁、余味悠长，多年来被反复推荐，至今仍是绝佳的十分钟读物。
HN 评论精选
从黑暗角度解读：记忆重置让主角无法成长，故事实为糖衣恐怖故事
我想我属于少数派——我不觉得这个故事温暖治愈。记忆重置是最大的问题：主角无法从错误中吸取教训。到时间尽头，所有记忆与人格合并时，他将回望亿万个重复着同样错误与遗憾的人生。这就像有人给你下了药让你无法形成记忆，对你恶作剧二十次，然后清醒后放视频给你看：'哈哈，你每次都上当！'——只不过不是二十次，而是亿万次人生，也不只是恶作剧，而是无数心碎、悔恨、失败与不安。这还没算自然施加的残酷：疾病、饥荒、台风、海啸……我甚至怀疑作者本意就是一篇裹了糖衣的克苏鲁式恐怖故事。
chroma查看英文原文
I guess I'm in the minority that doesn't find this story uplifting. The memory reset is the biggest problem, since it doesn't allow the main character to learn from his mistakes. At the end of time, the main character will have his memories and personalities merged. Then he'll look back on countless lifetimes of the same mistakes and regrets. It would be like if someone slipped you some Ambien (to prevent memory formation), played the same prank on you 20 times, then showed you a video of it after you sobered up. "Ha-ha, you fell for it every time! Classic!" Except instead of 20 times it would be billions (possibly trillions) of lifetimes. And instead of one prank, it would be countless heartbreaks, regrets, failures, and insecurities. And that's only looking at the character's own "choices." (Is it really a choice if you can't stop yourself from becoming John Wilkes Booth?) The cruelty inflicted by nature would be much greater. Disease, famine, famine, disease, famine, typhoon, famine, rattlesnake bite, famine, tsunami, etc. Now I wonder if a sugar-coated Lovecraftian horror story was the author's intent. No other kind of god would set up a system where you're forced to repeat the same mistakes for billions of years.
引用故事中关于丧偶者心理的段落，赞其真实而悲悯的人性刻画
我读过这篇小说好几遍，这段话每次都直击内心：'别担心，你的孩子会记住你完美的一面，他们还没来得及对你产生轻蔑。你妻子表面会哭，但暗地里会松一口气——说句公道话，你的婚姻早已破裂。唯一能安慰的是，她会为松了口气而内疚。'它太真实、太有人情味了，近乎直白地承认'事情有时就是这样'，却带着十足的悲悯。这种反差恰恰道尽了我对人类处境的感受。
rosser查看英文原文
I've read this several times before, and this bit always gets me, as they say, "right in the feels": “Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.” It's just so human. It's almost confrontational in its degree of, "That's just how shit is sometimes," but it's delivered with utter compassion. That juxtaposition captures so much of how I feel about the human condition.
推荐主题相近的经典短篇《最后的问题》
另一篇类似的好短篇是阿西莫夫的《最后的问题》。
dhughes查看英文原文
Another good short story similar to this is Asimov's "The Last Question." http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
联想到'单电子宇宙'假说，与故事设定异曲同工
这让我想起一个物理学假说：宇宙中所有电子其实是同一个电子，在时间中来回穿梭。
harperlee查看英文原文
This reminded me of a physics theory in which all electrons are actually the same electron, going back and forth in time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
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