用手边的东西造出来的

兰姆霍尔姆岛上的小教堂，是两间军用铁皮房首尾接在一起的。波莉到的时候，一位管理员正在开门。“你的工作是什么？”她问他。他早上开门，他说，还要把咸空气啃掉的地方重新刷漆。

The chapel on Lamb Holm is two army huts joined end to end. A caretaker was unlocking it when Polly arrived. "What is your job?" she asked him. He opened the doors in the morning, he said, and painted what the salt air took off.

进到里面，铁皮房就消失了。二十世纪四十年代，意大利战俘来到这里修防波堤。他们请求有个地方做礼拜。人家给了他们波纹铁皮。他们做出来的是一个彩绘天顶、一道铁屏风和一幅祭坛画。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 came here in the nineteen forties to work on the sea barriers. They asked for somewhere to worship. They were given corrugated metal. What they made was a painted ceiling, an iron screen and an altarpiece. A painter named Domenico Chiocchetti led the work.

“你还需要什么才能完成这项工作？”这就是当时的问题。他们要了水泥，也拿到了水泥。其余的一切都来自营里扔掉的东西。屏风是废铁做的。烛台是旧肉罐头。圣坛的石头是画出来的石膏板。

"What do you need to complete the work?" That was the question. They asked for cement, and they got cement. Everything else came from what the camp threw away. The screen is scrap iron. The candle holders are old meat tins. The stone of the chancel is painted plasterboard.

窗台上放着一件小手工具。“你能教我怎么用这个工具吗？”波莉问。他教了，她没看懂。“可以再解释一遍吗？”他又教了一遍。然后她抬头看那片平的铁皮天顶，它假装自己是一道弧。

A small hand tool sat on the sill. "Could you show me how to use this tool?" Polly asked. He showed her, and she missed it. "Could you explain that again?" He did. Then she looked up at a flat metal ceiling that pretends to be a curve.