The Unwritten Unalterable Laws

今晚靜坐，想起鄧拓先生以下詩句。謹以此紀念六四20周年：

莫道書生空議論，頭顱擲處血斑斑。

Tonight's sit-in demonstration for June 4 crackdown reminds me the following dialougue in the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone, because I know the leaflet that the mothers of the June 4 victims cannot openly remember their past son or daughter:  

P. 138-139

Creon(the King): ...... Did you know the order forbidding such an act?

Antigone: I knew it, naturally. It was plain enough.

Creon: And yet you dared to contravene it?

Antigone: Yes.

    That order did not come from God. Justice,

    The dwells with the gods,below, knows no such law.

    I did not think your edicts strong enough

    To overrule the unwritten unalterable laws

    Of God and heaven you being only a man.

    They are not of yesterday or to-day, but everlasting,

    Though where they came from, none of us can tell.

    Guilty of their transgression before God

    I cannot be, for any man on earth.

    I knew that I should have to die, of course,

    With or without your order. If it be soon,

    So much the better. Living in daily torment

    As I do, who would not be glad to die?

    This punishment will not be any pain.

    Only if I had let my mother's son

    Lie there unburied, then I could not have borne it.

    This I can bear. Does that seem foolish to you?

    Or is it you that are foolish to judge me so?

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