tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68179724987812896602011-09-30T11:58:07.168-07:00"more happiness than you could wish for"劉建伶(Chien-Ling Liu)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14398266492171820553noreply@blogger.comBlogger1781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817972498781289660.post-61158074476013333492011-05-01T17:28:00.000-07:002011-05-01T17:31:05.077-07:00

~from the film: Il deserto dei Tartari (The Desert of the Tartars)(1976)

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an encounter with a well-dressed and eloquent beggar who mistakes cash with soul Gas station on Gayley Westwood, Tuesday afternoonChien-Ling is putting some air in the tires.A Stranger: Miss, sorry to bother you. I don't smoke, drink and do drugs. I went to college. But I ......blah blah blahChien-Ling: sorry, I don't have cash on me.A Stranger: you don't have soul on you.Chien-Ling: You must be

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Economix: Comparing This Recession to Previous Ones: Job ChangesBUSINESS | September 03, 2010Economix: Comparing This Recession to Previous Ones: Job ChangesBy CATHERINE RAMPELLA look at how the jobs situation has changed since the most recent recession began in December 2007, and a comparison to trends from earlier downturns.

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"[For] those who do not love time never stands still." ~ Graham GreeneFor those who love time flies~~

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Another work related to François Villon: Georges Brassens' Ballade des dames du temps jadis(Villon's poem)

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我的第二個學期在按著"send"鍵寄出最後一份報告之後正式結束了!雖然離下學期只剩下一個週末的時間, 但是總算可以休息一下。我真的需要假期, 想著過了這個春天之後, 夏天就可以回台灣好好玩耍就很開心!來寫一寫這個學期做了什麼吧! 這個學期除了閱讀之外, 跟上學期比起來, 多了很多寫報告的時間, 平均每兩個禮拜要交一份五到十頁的報告 (雖然一學期只有十週), 學期末要將這些報告作整理, 三門課就是三份大報告。除了延續上學期科學史課的清末反種牛痘計畫(也因為這個計畫, 跟中國醫療史專家Charlotte Furth見面), 我和上學期的經濟史老師上一門獨立研究課, 繼續閱讀英國工人賠償問題。另外, 和一位每年冬天到學校講課的德國教授上了一門十九世紀資本主義史。也為了下學期的法文翻譯測驗去上了法文翻譯課。本來打算去旁聽一門大學部的計量經濟課, 但是因為花我太多的時間而作罷。課本身是有趣的,

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Renoir's paintings and sculptures are awesome, but I also see something interesting in my today's visit at LACMA (Los Angesles County Museum of Arts). One of the memorable exhibits is Robin Rhode's "Kite". The running images on the kite are like the scenery you see while you are riding a bike, and the hands on the painting are holding three black kite strings: nostalgic, but at the same time,

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Forgetfulness by Hart CraneForgetfulness is like a songThat, freed from beat and measure, wanders.Forgetfulness is like a bird whose wings are reconciled,Outspread and motionless, --A bird that coasts the wind unwearyingly.Forgetfulness is rain at night,Or an old house in a forest, -- or a child.Forgetfulness is white, -- white as a blasted tree,And it may stun the sybil into prophecy,Or bury the

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即使在一開學就計畫好接下來十周裡每週要完成的事, 但是在不斷增加的閱讀材料和慢吞吞的寫作進度, 加上感冒的攪局, 落得現在進度嚴重落後. 已經很久沒有周末了, 現在連休息的時候都一直想著接下來的報告內容, 和怎麼擠壓時間做更多的事, 搞的我緊張的要命. 想想把這個寫下來說不一定會好一些, 有好一些嗎?

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Le Petit Parisien (1952) by Willy Ronis (1910-2009), French photographer.

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Like an angel you sit next to me. Among us the sleeping souls are not disturbed in this misty night, swaying with the sea. You draw me a tree and plant it on my hand. The youth and tenderness is in the soil. But you give up fear and toil. When the dawn breaks, my place will be empty. With silence and cold kisses, it buries the shadow in the sea.

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My kind of songs!

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我很喜歡小津安二郎(Yasujirō Ozu)的電影, 看了蔣勳這篇文章, 我終於有點兒明白我喜歡的原因了!三少四壯集－小津2010-02-05 中國時報 【蔣勳】 　最像手帖的日本導演還是小津安二郎，他在二戰後的每一部影片都像手帖，「早安」像「快雪時晴」，「晚春」像「寒切帖」，「東京物語」像極了「喪亂帖」的無聲之淚。 　手帖美學一直延續到現代日本文化，大正時期，受西洋文學影響的芥川龍之介，他的小說仍然是手帖的品味。《羅生門》裡各說各話的人物，使一個故事拼湊不起全貌。恰如王羲之的手帖，常常旁敲側擊，也只能領略一個時代大概的模糊輪廓。手帖裡的事件，不清晰，也不確定。 　芥川最像手帖的作品是《芋粥》、《鼻子》，短小篇章，寥寥一兩頁，讀完只有人性悵然的荒謬，覺得啼笑都不宜。 　我到東京根岸下町一帶閒逛，走過巢鴨，偶然經過染井靈園，在慈眼寺的墓地見到芥川的墓。

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I got a $50 parking ticket yesterday. It seems that the city has changed all of their meter parking signs. The time people have to pay is no longer 9am to 6pm. It has extended to 8pm or 9pm! What a trick! :-(It is not yet over. After tracking the mail, I realize that I am an idiot sending the check with a certified mail. Since it was sent to a POB, why did I even bother to make it certified and

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He won the Oscar (2010)!

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我一直對納布可夫(Vladimir Nabokov)存有偏見, 不單單是因為他華麗的寫作風格, 他的故事總是繞著一個沒有辦法突破的心理圈圈。袁瓊瓊在這裡以「創傷」的說法為他平反了一下, 我認同。-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------引用：http://blog.chinatimes.com/yop/archive/2009/12/23/458529.html 黑鳥袁瓊瓊2009-12-23 納布可夫的《羅麗泰》大概是全世界最知名的禁書。世界十大禁書裡說明它被禁的理由：「戀童癖」，還有：「此書在美國盡人皆知，是把它當一本黃書來讀的。」 《羅麗泰》作為一本「黃書」，實在非常奇怪。因為通篇裡對性的描寫非常的保守。既不鹹也不濕。1955 到 1982

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Sprint's tower for this area must have been down. There has been no cellphone coverage for more than 24 hours.

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其實真的不能在晚上睡覺前看這樣沈重的電影，但是如果想要讓自己沈溺在那樣的烏雲久久不去的情緒中，這部電影真的是很好的選擇。就知道這部電影的感染力有麼強烈了，不愧是去年坎城影展「金棕櫚獎」最佳影片。這樣的好電影應該來說一說。這部德國的電影叫做«白色緞帶(Das Weiss Band)»。故事的背景是發生在1913-1914年間（也就是在一次大戰之前的一年）的一個德國保守的小鄉村。這是一部黑白片，我認為當然得是黑白片才能把這個故事的整個視覺效果和故事氛圍呈現的好。故事是由一個從外地來的一個學校老師回憶敘述這個鄉村在這段期間發生一連串不可思議的悲慘事件。整個故事情節穿梭在這個鄉村老師，男爵、男爵夫人、雇農、牧師、醫生、寡婦和一群看似天真卻詭異的孩子們之間。故事從頭到尾充斥著這些人之間的衝突與禁忌，一件事件接著一個事件發生，每個事件都直接探入人性的黑暗。我當一個觀眾，在看這部電影的時候，

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張嘉鳳老師回我信了，真開心！可惜她還在修改那一些會議論文，現在還不能讓我看。但是另外她介紹了兩個專家, Larissa Heinrich和董少新博士，我可以再寫衣眉兒跟他們聯絡，請教研究材料的問題。能夠直接跟研究者聯絡討論也是在寫研究計畫中有趣的事情之一，即使我們有可能都不會見到面，但是會寫很多的衣眉兒，幾乎有交筆友或是網友般的興奮感，哈～

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放假放了四個禮拜(12/7-1/4)，下個禮拜一就要開學了，可是怎麼都覺得沒有休息到。來想想寫寫放假做了些什麼事情吧！第一個禮拜當然沒有辦法休息，因為要趕著交期末報告，老師們很好心的將報告截止日期延後到放假後的第一個禮拜五，但是就表示得工作到那個時候。我科學史的研討課老師更是超級好心，因為是兩個學期的課，所以他要求報告在下個學期一開始的時候寄給他就行了，但是我這整個假期就泡湯了，一直到今天(12/30)我才把報告完成。這篇報告是一篇研究計畫，等於是下學期要寫的報告的藍圖，老師要求只要寫個三到五頁就行了，可是我寫了十四頁，我真的不知道是怎樣才能寫的那麼短又能把重要的線索說完。我另外一門課的研究計畫我寫了十九頁，老師還覺得可以再加一些東西。看看開學後老師怎麼說吧～研究計畫(prospectus)重點是要看計畫的可行性。所以在寫計畫之前要閱讀重要的二手研究，至少讀一些一手資料，

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我的筆記型電腦正式死亡, 現在用得是朋友借給我的PC, 還真好用.只是沒有中文鍵盤, 雖然有中文輸入, 所以打字的時後只能憑印象猜哪一個注音符號在哪一個鍵上, 可以猜中80%, 只能說"習慣"的力量真可怕!

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第一個學期結束了，hurrah~經歷了很多事，完成了很多事，也"開發"了許多待完成的事。學期一開始的選課並不困難，因為有許多老師和學長姐的幫助，所以上的課都是與我的研究興趣相關，也對我未來的論文有所幫助的。喔，要先說一下我的研究興趣（通常這是第一個學期研究生的備好台詞，因為這是所有人跟你第一次認識的時候會問你的問題）。我的研究興趣在福利國家的發展，由於我的研究領域在歐洲，所以主要是歐洲福利國家的變遷。我在台大歷史研究所的碩士論文寫的是廿十世紀初英國政府濟貧政策的變遷（從濟貧法到國民保險法），所以我想延續我當時所做的，延伸到歐洲其他國家，或是就英國本身探討更深入的福利政策議題。（我就知道說起來又落落長～）所以呢，我這個學期上了三門課，旁聽了一門課。旁聽的課是歐洲史學史，從年鑑學派，談到微觀歷史，一直到現代的文化史。旁聽的意思是只要上課時間出現做筆記就好了，基本上可以是一個隱形人，

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Not all groups have felt the recession equally. **NY Times

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The unemployment rate reached 10.2 percent in November, 2009. The last scary one was at the unemployment rate of 10.8 percent in December, 1982, 26 years ago. **News Source from NY Times (Bureau of Labor Statistics)***Picture from canadianemploymentlaw.com

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It can't be more obvious that a good historian always tries to address an idea by making a case that changes over time. This historical approach is not very different from how a good story teller tells his story. The nature of fiction lies on a character moving over time. Historians are constrained in the aspect of evidences, but they are obligated to compose vivid narratives as fiction writers

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Robert Brenner speaks with Jeong Seong-in Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus**Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai.

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再過兩個禮拜學校就要開學了。因為太晚看到申請停車證的訊息，申請的時間已經過了，再加上完全不可能因為求情或其他理由買到停車證（停車證一學期三個月189美金），包括我登廣告要買也買不到，所以就必須生出其他的交通方式。來洛杉磯已經三年了，因為一來就有車開的關係，所以到昨天為止只因為車子壞掉修理的時候坐過兩次公車。經過一番調查，發現還是坐公車最經濟和方便，因為在學校可以用學生證買到折價的公車證，坐一趟只要半塊錢；我在日落大道接近好萊塢的公車站上車，車子就直達學校，而且不用半個小時就到了，跟開車的時間差不多。可是有一個問題，因為我家住在山上，所以家裡離公車站牌有半座山的距離，我不想要每天煩麥可開車載我，所以我想到一個方法：開車下山，把車停在一個離公車站近而且不會被罰錢的地方，然後坐公車去學校。今天，我就按照這個計畫進行一遍，一切都還算順利。只有在回程的時候發生了一個突發事件（第一天就有突發事件）。

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Why do you deceive yourself that you can be out of love? You can't afford to loss it for which there is no reparation, ever.

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Northern California

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不知道我的送子鳥是不是也這麼辛苦？ 哈～I don't know if my stork had to work that hard as well? cc... Cloud - Click here for more home videos

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Pink Floyd's The TrailGood morning, Worm your honor.The crown will plainly show The prisoner who now stands before youWas caught red-handed showing feelingsShowing feelings of an almost human nature; This will not do.Call the schoolmaster!I always said he'd come to no goodIn the end your honor.If they'd let me have my way I couldHave flayed him into shape.But my hands were tied,The bleeding

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One Day in the United States, 2008.

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The sea is rocking the boat in the storm. The woman’s shrieks accompanied with the thunder tear God’s heart apart. The rag under her thighs is seeping blood with the rhythm of rocking boat. The poet next to her holds her hand and chants:Sweet little soul, fickle,Thy body's guest in close companionship,Into what regions art thou coming now,Thy little self so naked, florid and warm,in the kingdom

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The mason gets off the boat. He walks toward the old bridge with a red pebble held tightly in his hand. The sea port is still asleep in this sunny morning. He walks quietly through the alley without courage to look up at the blue frame windows. She must be still sleeping. In a protective shade, the sun light won’t disturb her. The smell of the ocean calms her. He remembers her face with her eyes

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前幾天開車到洛杉磯市中心，經過4th和Hill Street的時候，看到一群山羊在歷史悠久的Angels Flight旁邊的斜坡上吃草。原來這群山羊是被雇來清理雜草的，只是他們都回收到自己的肚子裡了！

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Als das Kind Kind war,ging es mit hängenden Armen,wollte der Bach sei ein Fluß,der Fluß sei ein Strom,und diese Pfütze das Meer.When the child was a childIt walked with its arms swinging,wanted the brook to be a river,the river to be a torrent,and this puddle to be the sea.當孩子仍是一個孩子他走路時揮動他的雙臂，希望小溪是河流，河流是奔流大江，而這窪水坑是汪洋大海。Als das Kind Kind war,wußte es nicht, daß es Kind war,alles war ihm beseelt,

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Francis Coppola's new movieTetro is quite intriguing. A self-expatriated writer in Argentina is forced to reunion with his younger brother working on a ship. The relationship of the two brothers and of the family that the protagonist(Tetro) escaped from is gradually shaped by Bennie's(the young brother)discovery of Tetro's writings in scattered pieces of paper. The difference between B/W(black

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Chekhov's Ivanov, Translated by Tom Stoppard, Wyndham's Theatre(London),17 September to 29 November, 2008.

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The Carnival Is Overby Dean Can DanceOutsideThe storm clouds gathering,Moved silently along the dusty boulevard.Where flowers turning crane their fragile necksSo they can in turnReach up and kiss the sky.They are driven by a strange desireUnseen by the human eyeSomeone is calling.I remember when you held my handIn the park we would play when the circus came to town.Look! Over here.OutsideThe

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The Unconsoled 是我閱讀的第二本石黑一雄(Kazuo Ishiguro)的作品。故事的主角是一位有名的鋼琴家被邀請到一個不知名的歐洲城市演出，但是在這三天的停留過程中，不斷地的被城裡的人帶著進行一些他事前不知道要做的事或是突然被要求幫忙些什麼，這使得他的演出變成是最不重要的事，也是他最終未完成的事。一般而言，說故事者會考量到讀者想要知道什麼，但是在The Unconsoled 卻找不到這樣直接的證據：讀者常會發現敘事者說的話前後矛盾，敘事者的觀點游移不定，人物之間的關係或疏遠或親近，事件經歷的時間長度不合常理，地點之間的距離太遠或太近，場景與物件的空間錯置。然而，這些不一致的現象正是夢境的元素。在夢境裡，我們可以花一整天走在大街上，進入一家咖啡館，一轉身，打開咖啡館的後門就是薩拉耶佛的槍擊戰場，士兵手中的槍枝是血紅色的，射出綠色的子彈，打在大象的身上，

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我昨天去看了一部電影，片名叫做Departures。我查了一下，台灣在前一陣子有上映，翻譯成"送行者：禮儀師的樂章"。 故事是描述一個原本在東京交響樂團擔任大提琴手的年輕人，在樂團解散和放下自己認為擁有演奏的才能的情況下，不再繼續演奏生涯，而與妻子回到故鄉山形縣。因緣際會循著一份印字錯誤的報紙徵職廣告，而獲得禮儀師的工作。他不情願地開始這份工作，自身的恐懼和排斥，加上妻子的不認同和周遭的鄙夷，讓他有幾次想要辭職。但是這個禮儀公司的老闆所堅持的送行禮儀方式和他自己親身經歷一次又一次的儀式，讓他漸漸瞭解禮儀師在死者與生者告別的這個階段具有深刻的影響力，也因為如此，也讓送行呈現深刻的意義。他的妻子和親友也在目睹一場送行自身親人的儀式認同與尊敬他的工作。也因為對送行的體悟讓他能夠重新面對生命中失落甚久的親情。 電影中由人物，風景和音樂所塑造出的氛圍非常具有感染力，

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我最近發現了一個日裔的英籍作家和他的作品，他的名字叫石黑一雄(Kazuo Ishiguro)。他在1954年生於日本長崎。六歲的時候因為父親工作的關係舉家移居英國。我到目前為止聽完了Never Let Me Go(別讓我走)和The Unconsoled。之所以用聽的，是因為彌補每天在洛杉磯開車的浪費的時間；再者，聽與讀的感受可以有很大的不同，這樣的聽覺刺激讓我想起當我還不認識幾個字的時候，爸媽和老師給我們的說故事課，樂趣真是無窮。前一陣子與梔子分享Never Let Me Go的讀後感，或許應該在這裡作個紀錄和整理。至於The Unconsoled，我還在咀嚼中。 聽完了Never Let Me Go之後，感覺是多層次的：心沈沈的，但是也一種解脫與自由的感覺。石黑一雄在這本書裡創造了一個虛構而完整的世界。所謂的完整，是指他不僅給書中的人物一個不同於常世的生活環境，不同稱呼彼此的方式，

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The arithmetic test will be finished in ten minutes. The classroom is forcibly quiet except on the pencils rustling on paper, and the occasional knock on a chair leg. The playground outside of the classroom is empty only the red wet slide and the squeaking gondola chairs swaying in breeze. It rained a little earlier in this spring day. The dark clouds have slowly moved apart and show the way to

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Chien-Ling the baby - Not even one year old yet!Chien-Ling and Mama

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Clouds gathered in a mountain shape with a dark bottom and a feather-like top near Hurds Hill in the south of Scofield. They moved across the town and flew to the north. Thunderstorms were expected for the next couple of weeks. It was also the time of spring tides in the month. The local fire brigade had constituted an emergency unit to evacuate the twelve households along the Ouse River.

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How the Government Dealt With Past Recessions

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人類終其一生不斷的在尋求各種結果，當你結婚的同時也給了父母一個他們想要的結果；因為他們的孩子有了歸宿。而對我來說這個結果只是邁向一個新生活的方式而已，就像這樣…每個人都在尋找屬於自己的結果：心靈上、生活上、工作上、課業上、社會上…當我創作這系列作品時，我的人生再度處於抉擇的關卡，我想要一個孩子，可我必須工作，而我又更想專注於創作。 當人生的多重線條交疊在一起時，什麼結果才是理想的呢？ 這並沒有答案，這不是蘋果樹，結的只是單純的果實。人生的結果卻常常出乎意料外。作品中以各種水果的造型和特徵作為創作的起始，不過結果卻不是你想像得那樣；安逸會讓人變得貪婪吧！平穩的生活意味的會是幸福嗎？ 看似靜悄悄的湖面是如此的美，誰知道湖底部甚或更靠近地球中心的那裏正在翻滾著。這些景象如同『結髮』後的人生，湖面和湖底各自運轉著各自的想法。 Rae部落格：LoveRae 樂福日記藝術家Rae /

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The anchor is dropped into the water at Alfama when the sun plumbs under the horizon. The ship knocking on the water at the shore stops at the edge of the land and the sea. The door of Alfama is open. The sailor can not wait to go home. He tells me that Alfama for him is as if a house without windows, but it is his hometown, where his lover sings him sweet songs and the light is never too strong

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During the Greek and Persian Wars (499~386BC), on the first day after the battle at Thermopylae and Artemisium, from the Greek deserters from Arcadia, the Persians learnt that the Greeks were “holding the Olympic games, seeing the athletic sports and the chariot races.” The Persians further enquired: “what is the prize for which they contend?” “An olive wreath” returned the others, “which is

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I am singing on my little boat there on the cruel sea. It is a song about flying to the sun. A boy from the east climbs up to the highest mountain of the world at a July dawn. He waits there, crouching like a black jaguar. When the sun rises from the bottom of his feet, he jumps down as if flying to the sun. It is not the sun that he has fallen to. He falls into the bottom of the cruel sea. My

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At two o’clock in the morning, the ship is ready to depart. We stop walking at the end of the lonely dock of Izar-Carenas. This is where we had to part.The ship is to take me for a long voyage, a voyage keeping the fools from the sane. There is no captain on board, and each passenger has to decide his own destination. I don't have a destination in mind. Besides the gloves that you gave me last

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Steer, hither steer your winged pines,All beaten mariners!Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines,A prey to passengers -Perfumes far sweeter than the bestWhich makes the Phoenix' urn and nest.Fear not your ships,Nor any to oppose you save our lips;But come on shore,Where no joy dies till Love hath gotten more.For swelling waves our panting breasts,Where never storms arise,Exchange, and be awhile our

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Pourquoi Dieu avait-il fait cela? Puisque la nuit est destinée au sommeil, à l'inconscience, au repos, à l'oubli de tout, pourquoi la rendre plus charmante que le jour, plus douce que les aurores et que les soirs, et pourquoi cet astre lent et séduisant, plus poétique que le soleil et qui semble destiné, tant il est discret, à éclairer des choses trop délicates et mystérieuses pour la grande

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On the second day after we arrive in Cádiz, we accept the invitation from the girl with black lipstick at the café near the Arco de la Rosa to visit her at the studio where she practices Alegrias dance. Next day, we go back to the Arco and followed east on Calle Pelota. We hold each other so tightly as if we were one person in order to walk side by side on this narrow street. The studio is near

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A falling starThe autumn wind knowsA tree in this cold night waiting for all the stars to fallis waning, alasI was a fool, bidding defiance to an impaired truthUne étoile tombanteLe vent d'automne sait queun arbre dans cette nuit froide attendant toutes les étoiles pour tombers'affaiblit, hélasJ'étais un fou, offrant le défit à une vérité altérée是一顆被貶的星秋雲們都知曉那棵寒夜中等待繁星隕落的樹悄悄地褪盡春風，唉他是個痴子，

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My little baby, Are you comfortable living in a rotten soul?**photograph of Krystian Kozerawski

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Mark Twain was an irascible curmudgeon who frequently outraged people with whom he found fault. He did not suffer fools gladly and employed his talent for sarcasm and satire to skewer self-righteous politicians, remorseless racists, hypocritical churchmen and many others, regardless of their status. The quote appears as if his advice to them. “Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than

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chayikid replied that Butoh reminded him of Kabuki, which he experienced in Tokyo and Kyoto. He mentioned that in a Kabuki performance, "If you have a rough idea about the storyline, it can be quite interesting; otherwise, it’s a test of your patience…". I like Kabuki, too. It is one of the most delicate performances! I can see the similarities between Butoh and Kabuki, such as the white face and

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Velvet nightenchants my sweet valentine.Silence, somber and tranquil,puts water to sleep.A long distress call has ceased.Only willows, sighing in the breeze.**photograph of Jan von Holleben

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Imagine that there is a raw egg in your mouth and a potato wedged between your thighs. You stoop low with eyes closed, and start walking backwards as an old woman. You are crouching down closer to the ground; still as your two thighs are almost close to each other, you are protecting the fragile part of yourself. There is more. You are to find someone and find the way to exchange the potato, from

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I do have moments of doubt. I wonder about the meaning of existence. However, being aware of my own existence expropriates the people I love. After all, it is better not to point out the distinction of my own. I should be there and not be there at the same time. I use the term, should, for the emphasis of my own interests. Sometimes I really wish I could just disappear, a suicide probably. Who

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Animadverti jam ante aliquot annos quàm multa, ineuente aetate, falsa pro veris admiserim, & quàm dubia sint quaecunque istis postea superextruxi, ac proinde funditus omnia semel in vitâ esse evertenda, atque a primis fundamentis denuo inchoandum, si quid aliquando firmum & mansurum cupiam in scientiis stabilire; sed ingens opus esse videbatur, eamque aetatem expectabam, quae foret tam matura, ut

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Under the black sunwith peeling nails crawling in mudfor knowing no enduntil fear distends the bodyto an extentexploded

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Пусть бегут неуклюжеПешеходы по лужам,А вода — по асфальту рекой.И неясно прохожимВ этот день непогожий,Почему я веселый такой.Я играю на гармошкеУ прохожих на виду…К сожаленью, день рожденьяТолько раз в году.Прилетит вдруг волшебникВ голубом вертолетеИ бесплатно покажет кино.С днем рожденья поздравитИ, наверно, оставитМне в подарок пятьсот «эскимо».Я играю на гармошкеУ прохожих на виду…К

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I waited at the door. It was not easy for her to reason out why I came. But it did not matter. She greeted me as if she knew how much I had been through to make it here. It was a greeting for me, for me alone. I could not see anyone else in her eyes. We then sat down at the fire. She held my hands. Her warmth was no less than the fire. I felt right away that there was an unbreakable bound between

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During the Greek and Persian Wars (499~386BC), on the first day after the battle at Thermopylae and Artemisium, from the Greek deserters from Arcadia, the Persians learnt that the Greeks were “holding the Olympic games, seeing the athletic sports and the chariot races.” The Persians further enquired: “what is the prize for which they contend?” “An olive wreath” returned the others, “which is

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Um eines Verses willen muß man viele Städte sehen, Menschen und Dinge, man muß die Tiere kennen, man muß fühlen, wie die Vögel fliegen, und die Gebärde wissen, mit welcher die kleinen Blumen sich auftun am Morgen. Man muß zurückdenken können an Wege in unbekannten Gegenden, an unerwartete Begegnungen und an Abschiede, die man lange kommen sah, an Kindheitstage, die noch unaufgeklärt sind, an die

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“I lose the key.”“Don’t worry, the dog will come back itself.”“It’s the key to her apartment.”“If you walk two blocks ahead, you will see a 7-11, and you can put a notice on the bulletin board.”“What would I have put it?”“The lawyer and his wife are waiting downstairs.”“I usually wake up at ten o’clock at night, and start writing.”“Should we keep them waiting?”“I usually make sure the door is

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我很難說明這是怎麼發生的，很難說明的意思是指這其中可能的原因不明，或是原因過於複雜到我目前的言語能力無法清楚表達，所以我只能告訴你結果，這個結果是我是一個情感強烈的人。我記得有一個朋友曾經告訴我：在心理醫學上，這是屬於處理天才兒童問題的範圍。一個對周遭的不正義或是虛假非常敏感的小孩具有相當的情感力量來認知周遭的人事物，但是他容易對他所處的世界感到失望和憤世嫉俗。現代醫學認為，這樣的小孩是在判斷力、理性能力、創造力和表達能力等方面是需要「幫助」的。醫學界認為這樣的小孩因為對人生的歷練還不夠，因此他們還未具有適合存活在這個世界上的客觀態度。我在想，這個問題大概跟年紀沒有絕對的關係。一個人即使已經不是小孩了，但是他有可能還是有同樣的問題：具有與這個世界不合的強烈情感，一般人會說：太過敏感。唉，真的沒有什麼太過或不足的問題，會說「他太過敏感」這樣的話的人，

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I think it is reasonable to classify writings in two forms: prose and verse. We can find a distinct nature in each of them. I agree with what Clutton-Brock said: “If the cardinal virtue of poetry is love, the cardinal virtue of prose is justice; and, whereas love makes you act and speak on the spur of the moment, justice needs inquiry, patience, and a control even of the noblest passions.”** I

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What an incredible sensation that Keats had felt for Fanny Brown: “everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.”(Keats, Letters 1 November 1820) I often think that such a sensation could transform into a perception of a work of art. It is probably very close to what Eliphaz the Temanite described: “ A spirit passed before my face: the hair of my flesh stood up.”(Book of Job)**

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Among the mind’s powers is one that comes of itself to many children and artists. It need not be lost, to the end of his days, by anyone who has ever had it. This is the power of taking delight in a thing, or rather in anything, everything, not as a means to some other end but just because it is what it is, as the lover dotes on whatever maybe the traits of the beloved object. A child in the full

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Où vont les chiens, dites-vous, hommes peu attentifs? Ils vont à leurs affaires.Rendez-vous de devoir, rendez-vous d'amour. À travers l’eau, à travers les ponts, sous le soleil brûlant, sous la pluie forte, ils trottent coup sur coup, ils se reposent à l’ombre des toitures, ils passent sous les voitures, excités par le boue, les puces ou la blessure. Comme nous, ils se sont levés de bon matin,

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6:33 Two sparrows are chirping at your half-open window. You forgot to close the window last night. The cold air sneaked into the room during the night. You sneeze. You wake yourself up by the sneeze.6:48 You have been staring at the ceiling for fifteen minutes. You think of David Lynch. You look at the card on the wall. It reminds you the pink background in Inland Empire.6:53 You sit up, turn to

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每次閱讀成英姝的文字，總讓我想起歐思古德所說的：「對文學語言的感覺是非常接近常理的，它不需要文字的天賦，或是生花妙筆，或是技巧性的評論。我寧願堅持一種真正的語感是建立在對每個個人充滿興趣、對人的精神生活的熱切關心、對成功與失敗的觀察、對世界的滅亡與再生的渴望。這樣才是一種完全的、真實的、相對應的文學價值觀。文學是生活，一種具有同樣程度的價值，不可或缺的律法，與不偏不倚公正的生活。」她實在太棒了！Every time when I read India Chen’s writing, she always reminds me what Charles Osgood says:“Literary sense is closer to common sense than many people suppose. It does not demand a natural talent for

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Maurice leans his chair back against a crippled wooden table with his face facing the open door. The rain pours over the threshold into the cottage. He stares up at the leaking ceiling and breathes deeply. Marked on the rain gauge, daily storms have been recorded for the past three weeks in Noris Brochi. Located in the southwest Britain, this town has been there since the Roman occupation. Noris

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Marked on the rain gauge, daily storms are recorded down for the past three weeks in Noris Brochi. Located in the southwest Britain, this town has been there since the Roman occupation. Noris brochi means “rain early”. Clouds gather in a mountain shape with a dark bottom and a feather-like top near Hurds Hill in the south of the town. They move across the town and flow toward the northern

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Helena smells the forest while stepping into the cottage. The aroma of wood becomes stronger and stronger as she walks across the hall and enters the sleeping chamber. The wood occupies half of the chamber. Maurice follows her one step behind. He smells her hair. Her delicate neck goes along a banded collar, embellished with two layers of lace. He holds Helena’s hands to touch each piece of wood.

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我坐在凱薩公園遊樂場門口左邊第二個椅子上 打盹離家出走將近一個秋天的另一個我 向我的方向跑來 停在我的影子裡 喘息手上繫著粉紅色鈴鐺的小女孩 用雙手捧起我腳邊小兔子 放在我的懷裡她輕聲告訴在影子裡喘息的另一個我 請我好好照顧小兔子在一個冬天以後 她會回來她會回來拜訪我 另一個我 和小兔子I sit on the second bench at playground gate in Caesar Parkdozing offMy other I who has run away from home for almost an autumn runs towards mestopping in my shadowpantingA little girl with a pink bell on her wrist holds up the

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Stiller Freund der vielen Fernen, fühle wie dein Atem noch den Raum vermehrt.Im Gebalk der finstern Glockenstühlelaß dich läuten. Das, was an dir zehrt,Still friend of many distances, feel how your breath increases space even now.In the timber-frames of shadowy bell towerslet yourself ring. That which saps your powers遠方靜默的友人，感覺你的呼吸如何延展了空間。在黑夜裡鐘塔的照明下讓你自己鳴響起。那些吸吮你的精力的wird ein Starkes über dieser

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I have been standing here since the sun came up. My feet inside my boots are starting to feel numb. I have to sit down. I sit down. It is easy to take off my boots. These boots I got from my dead brother are one size bigger than they should be. I look at my pink heel of my right foot. It is not as bad as the left one. A tiny sore hides inside the boot. The skin is broken. Something gooey oozes

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