用手边的东西造出来的

兰姆霍尔姆岛上的那座小教堂，是两间军用铁皮房首尾接在一起的，这是所有人第一眼注意到的事，也是所有人最后记住的事。波莉到的时候，一位管理员正在开门，是个不慌不忙的人，手里一串钥匙。“你的工作是什么？”她问他。他说他早上开门，晚上关门，中间把咸空气啃掉的地方重新刷一遍漆。

The chapel on Lamb Holm is two army huts end to end, which is the first thing anyone notices and the last thing anyone remembers. A caretaker was unlocking it when Polly arrived, an unhurried man with a ring of keys. "What is your job?" she asked him, and he said he opened the doors in the morning, closed them at night, and repainted what the salt air took off in between.

进到里面，铁皮房就消失了。二十世纪四十年代，意大利战俘被带到这里修筑防波堤，他们请求有个地方做礼拜。他们拿到的是波纹铁皮。他们用它做出来的，是一个拱形天顶、一处石砌圣坛、一道锻铁屏风和一幅彩绘祭坛画，其中一位名叫多梅尼科·基奥凯蒂的画家领着大家干。

Inside, the huts disappear. Italian prisoners of war were brought here in the nineteen forties to work on the sea barriers, and they asked for somewhere to worship. What they got was corrugated metal. What they made of it was a vaulted ceiling, a stone chancel, a wrought iron screen and a painted altarpiece, and one of them, a painter named Domenico Chiocchetti, led the work.

“你还需要什么才能完成这项工作？”这正是那座营地必须回答的问题。他们要了水泥，也拿到了水泥。其余的一切都出自营里正要扔掉的东西。屏风是冷锻的废铁。烛台是咸牛肉罐头。圣坛的石头其实是石膏板，画得那么仔细，你得凑近了它才肯承认自己是什么。

"What do you need to complete the work?" is the question the camp had to answer. They asked for cement, and were given cement. Everything else came out of what the camp was throwing away. The screen is scrap iron worked cold. The candle holders are corned beef tins. The stone of the chancel is plasterboard, painted so carefully that you have to lean in before it admits what it is.

管理员把一件小手工具落在了窗台上。“你能教我怎么用这个工具吗？”波莉问，他教了，可她第一遍没听明白。“可以再解释一遍吗？”他又解释了一遍。然后他回去刷他的漆，波莉抬头看那片天顶：平的铁皮假装成一道弧，而且从屋里任何一个座位看过去，这个假装都成立。

The caretaker had left a small hand tool on the sill. "Could you show me how to use this tool?" Polly asked, and he did, and the explanation went past her the first time. "Could you explain that again?" He did that too. Then he went back to his paint, and Polly looked up at a ceiling that is flat metal pretending to be a curve, and holds the pretence from every seat in the room.