「我知道的你也知道,我不说的你也不说,我是什么?」
——谜语大师巴德•巴比巴伯•巴拉
「神秘」的追随者才人辈出,「谜语人」更是个中翘楚。他们曾是殿堂诗人、光影画家、变相师或秘学僧侣,在各自的领域栩栩生辉,却在接触了星神之后,变为一群口出胡言,书写妄语的莫名其妙之徒。
虚构史学家致力于历史的神秘化,而「谜语人」醉心于破坏语言的确定性;用来言词表意的文字在「谜语人」的口中逐渐模糊。他们解构文本,创造喻象,变换语序,篡改含义,将原本精确的语言变得面目全非。
谜语人虽不如虚构史学家那样大张旗鼓,但其所作所为仍然对现实宇宙造成了潜移默化巨大的影响。如今银河中已难寻纯粹精准的语言,原因何在?这是谜语人留下的又一个谜语。
The Riddlers — Enigmata
"You know what I know, and you don't say what I don't say. What am I?"
— Riddler Baden Babbibalo Bala
Enigmata has a large number of followers, with The Riddlers being a prominent group. They were once palace hall poets, chiaroscuro painters, masters of disguise, or occult monks. While having reached great heights in their respective fields, after coming into contact with the Aeons, they turned into an incomprehensible group of people who spouted ridiculousness and wrote falsehoods.
Where the History Fictionologists are devoted to the mystification of history, the Riddlers are obsessed with destroying the certainty of language. Words used to express meaning are gradually obfuscated in the mouths of the Riddlers. They deconstruct texts, abuse metaphors, change word orders, tamper with semantics, and transform an otherwise precise language into something beyond recognition.
While the Riddlers are not as prominent as History Fictionologists, their actions still have a subtle yet huge impact on the current universe. Why is it so hard to find a pure and precise language in the cosmos these days? That is another riddle left by the Riddlers.