在咖啡館遇見米開朗基羅（簡體書）

We all know that Eve was a mixed blessing. The ancients actually believed thatArcadia was exclusively male, and that Arcadian men lived long and carefree lives,eating a diet of acorns. It was only later that women appeared on the scene, startingwith Pandora and her box of tricks. The male ignudi on the Sistine Ceiling, holdingtheir sheaves of acorns, are meant in part to evoke this all-male golden age, andwhen Adam is created he seems to belong with them, as hes of similar scale andphysique. All men, I think, yearn from time to time to return to this all-male goldenage, and are troubled by the idea of women. Thats not to say there arent greatexceptions to prove the rule. The Virgin Mary canceled out the sin of Eve, and myillustrious friend Vittoria Colonna is as chaste as she is beautiful. I wrote a madrigalfor her which begins: "A man in a woman, in fact a god speaks through her mouth."There are plenty of women among the blessed in the Last Judgment, and the damnedare all men.
我們都知道夏娃是個好壞參半的人物。實際上，古人認為阿卡狄亞人是單一的男性群體，他們吃橡樹果，長久以來過著無憂無慮的生活。只是后來女人出現了，第一個就是帶著魔盒的潘多拉。西斯廷天頂畫上手持橡樹果的男性裸像的部分用意就是去喚醒純男性黃金時代，亞當被創造出來時看起來就是跟他們在一起，因為他們的身高和體形相似。我想所有男人一直都渴望回歸這個黃金時代，只是被女人的想法所困擾罷了。不過，那并不是說不存在偉大的例外證明，圣母瑪利亞抵消了夏娃的罪過，而且我杰出的朋友維多利亞·科隆納就如同她那美麗的容顏一樣圣潔。我在為她創作的一首抒情短詩的開頭寫道： “女人中的男人，那是一位神在借她之口講話。”在《最后的審判》中很多女人升入了天堂，而下地獄的都是男人。