天気

解説

付記

私は未来を覗いた―― 人の目が届く限り遠くへ。 そして見た――予報官の長が死に、 地獄に堕ち、永劫の嘘つきとして閉じ込められていた。 彼の非理性の記録は、地上でも稀に見るほど。 だが彼は煤の中から立ち上がった―― 真実よりも「石炭」を選んだ、その燃え立つ青年は。 彼は見回し、天を仰ぎ、 薄い石綿板にこう書いた――私はそれを読んだ。 永遠の炎の薔薇色の光の中で。 「曇り。風は変わりやすく、局地的ににわか雨。涼しくなる。雪。」 ―― ハルシオン・ジョーンズ

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Original

The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

Additional notes

Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be— Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth. While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth, From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth. He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote— For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow: Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow. Halcyon Jones