1983年诺贝尔文学奖获得者的文字功夫点燃了后来很多艺术家的灵感，比如U2乐团，比如Stephen King，知道Castle Rock城堡岩这个名字源自哪里？对，小说蝇王。

配乐选用1990年电影蝇王主题曲。Music by, Philippe Sarde

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and tickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island. The air was cool, moist, and clear; and presently even the sound of the water was still. The beast lay huddled on the pale beach and the stains spread, inch by inch

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?