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Bombing Moon Gives New Meaning To Lunatics 

        by Andrei Codrescu

Landing a man on the moon to do it before the Russians was crazy enough.

The value was purely symbolic, and as far as symbolism goes, the moon has it all over nationalism.<P>

The moon has been a symbol since humanity began. She is Luna, who gave us the name for the months of the year, the faithful and lonely companion of Earth who lives in our oldest poems and crosses the sky of our dreams.<P>

She pulls up the tides and the blood in the bodies of women. She is the archetype who is always on the verge of stereotype, but never gets there because no matter how many bad songs and broken hearts she uses up, she is still just as powerful when you look up and see her in the sky growing full and sickle-thin. She works her poetic charms in English, Russian, German and every other language, the supreme metaphor.<P>

So how much does a metaphor weigh? A lot more than NASA thinks. The first man on the moon wasn't an American or a Russian, it was The Man in the Moon we all saw when we were kids, and somebody older showed him to us. That's the first man on the moon, her permanent resident, and now he's got a NASA rocket at his backside.<P>

Who does the moon belong to anyway? Can we just blow a hole in it without asking all the billions of people on Earth who look up at the sky every night and wonder at her beauty and talk to it?<P>

They used to call the mentally ill lunatics. But now I wonder who the real lunatics are. And if there is water on the moon, what are we going to do with it? Grow moon-corn for ethanol until we kill the Earth?<P>

NPR特約評論員 ANDREI CODRESCU

翻譯: 忍冬園主

炸月給了癲狂新解

搶在俄國人之前登月已夠瘋的了。其價值純屬象徵性的，而只要象徵主義還管用，月亮對所謂國家至上就是不可或缺的。

月亮從人類一開始就成了一個符號。她是把一年12等分的命名者，她是地球忠誠而寂寞的伴侶。她活在最古老的詩篇中，她劃過我們夢中的夜空。

她引動潮汐和女人們的血液。用盡了蹩腳的頌歌，破碎的心靈，她永遠是不可企及的典型，眾生仰望中，在天上圓了又缺，缺了又圓。她以詩意的魅力在英語，俄語，德語和其他語言中傳達著至高的隱喻。

好，那隱喻有多沈重？比宇航局所想象的要多得多！誰是月亮上的第一個人？不是美國人，不是俄國人，是那個小時候大人們指給我們看的月人！他才是月亮上的第一個人----她的永久居民。而現在，他屁股上卻挨了宇航局一火箭。

說到底，月亮屬於誰？幾十億地球人每天仰望夜空，驚歎和談論著她的美麗，而在月亮上炸開一個洞之前，我們可曾問過他們一句？

從月亮的周期得到了?發，拉丁文中借用了月相來定義那些時常癲狂的人們。可現在我要問一句，到底是誰真的瘋了。如果月亮上真有水， 我們將用它作什?？在月亮上種玉米造酒精-----當我們把地球毀滅之後？

（這就是我們的反對派和愛月者Andrei Codrescu在宇航局撞擊月球後的評論）