The red of the Revolution, of course, and the black of the oppressed race. Cliché was the common currency of all Communist dictatorships, but they had the opposite effect to what the regime intended, for they cast an aura of forbidden fruit around the slandered New World metropolis, making it seem a glowing Olympus of modernity, an urban Everest of adventure.
红色当然代表革命，而黑色则代表被压迫的民族。这样的陈词滥调在所有共产独裁政权中都司空见惯，但取得的效果却与预想中截然相反，诽谤恰恰赋予了这座新世界大都会非常浓厚的禁果意味，既像光彩奕奕的现代天堂，又像冒险城市的珠穆朗玛。