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.
在伦敦一座公墓里，离我父母的墓不远，有一座纯正埃及风格、颇为醒目的陵墓。1911年去世的亚历山大•戈登(Alexander Gordon)上校就葬在那里。我查了资料。和帕克上校、桑德斯上校一样，“上校”的称号是荣誉称号，并非军衔；他的大半生在美国度过，是一位实业家。1977年，重金属乐队“犹大祭司”(Judas Priest)将他的陵墓用作其专辑《Sin after Sin》的封面。顺带一提，发掘图坦卡蒙(Tutankhamun)的霍华德•卡特(Howard Carter)也葬在附近，他的墓碑却朴素得令人失望。