Not far from my parents’ grave in a London cemetery is a striking mausoleum in solid Egyptian style. Colonel Alexander Gordon, who died in 1911, is buried there. I looked him up. Like Colonels Parker and Sanders, the title was honorific, rather than a military rank; he lived much of his life in the US where he was an industrialist. In 1977 heavy metal band Judas Priest used his tomb on the cover of their album Sin after Sin. Howard Carter, the excavator of Tutankhamun, is incidentally buried nearby, his gravestone disappointingly plain.
在倫敦一座公墓里，離我父母的墓不遠，有一座純正埃及風格、頗為醒目的陵墓。1911年去世的亞歷山大?戈登(Alexander Gordon)上校就葬在那里。我查了資料。和帕克上校、桑德斯上校一樣，“上校”的稱號是榮譽稱號，并非軍銜；他的大半生在美國度過，是一位實業家。1977年，重金屬樂隊“猶大祭司”(Judas Priest)將他的陵墓用作其專輯《Sin after Sin》的封面。順帶一提，發掘圖坦卡蒙(Tutankhamun)的霍華德?卡特(Howard Carter)也葬在附近，他的墓碑卻樸素得令人失望。