幾堂青春文學課（新潮文庫出發）：英國文學3。Alan Bloom 《愛的戲劇 莎士比亞與自然；愛欲三部曲二》《The Monkey》. 英文之美；“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”《創世紀 》Chapter 4. GENESIS By ROBERT ALTER；《創世記》馮象著/譯；Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light 。談天天讀點英文小說（張忠謀先／蔡詩萍）。"影響我最深的一本小說"？Graham Green的小說。Thomas Hardy 小說新譯。卓別林自傳歷史小說與真象：羅馬多奇幻覺？真心推薦的小說嗎？ J. L.Borges的《想像的動物》（台北：志文出版社，楊耐冬譯百鳥朝聖：【台灣戴明圈：2008年東海戴明學者講座】導言與介紹 鍾漢清 (Hanching Chung):
幾堂青春文學課（新潮文庫出發）：英國文學 3。
https://www.facebook.com/hanching.chung/videos/848910294013147
Thomas Hardy 小說新譯。
翻譯大師吳奚真先生
譯著有：《孤軍流亡記》、《人類的故事》、《教育心理學》、《斑衣吹笛人》、《希臘羅馬名人傳》、《尼古拉與亞麗珊黛》、《英語散文集錦》、《生活的藝術》等，並主編《牛津 ...
蔡詩萍
「再忙也要讀英文，
再忙也要讀英文小說。」
這話，可是一位你鐵定出乎意料之外的大咖，告訴我的喔！
他是張忠謀先生，完全不需要名片也不需要任何虛名的人了。
他在一場針對台大EMBA的畢業典禮上給畢業生的忠告。我在場，聽得很仔細，只可惜，不是經常能做到的。
他說他每天都會讀一些英文小說。
這是事實，很多訪談裡他都說過類似的話。
這也是一種成功者的自律，把閱讀當習慣，日積月累，學識淵博。
我花了二十幾天，每天再忙，也讀幾頁英文小說，我這次讀完的是，小說家村上春樹亦喜歡的美國「硬派偵探小說家」，雷蒙•錢德勒（Raymond Chandler）的《The Big Sleep》（大眠），文采粲然，故事曲折，雖是偵探推理，卻文學筆法處處，人性解剖深邃，不少段落我都很願意背下來，難怪村上春樹會喜歡他。
看看這段結尾多好：What did it matter where you lay once you were dead ? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill ? You were dead ,you were sleeping the big dead ,you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep,not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.
（我來試著翻譯：死都死了，你還計較躺在哪裡嗎？躺在污水裡，躺在山上的大理石塔裡？對已經大眠的你，實在無須再為這煩惱了！油和水如同風與氣對你沒有什麼不同，你已經大眠了，怎會在乎你怎麼死的，又為何葬身此處呢！）
一個受託找尋失蹤人口的私家偵探，最終在一連串謀殺的案件中，抽絲剝繭，看到人性的某種脆弱與糾結，而死亡，亦即大眠（Big Sleep），是終結這一切虛華矯飾最好的答案。頗有《紅樓夢》裡，了凡歌的味道。
一天忙碌，一天吵雜，回家關門讀書，最樂。
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Genesis 4 創世紀:Chapter 4. GENESIS By ROBERT ALTER； 《創世記》馮象著/譯；Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
KJV、思高聖經
----GENESIS By ROBERT ALTER (Norton, 1996)
馮象，上海人。少年負笈雲南邊疆，從兄弟民族受“再教育”凡九年成材，獲北大英美文學碩士，哈佛中古文學博士（Ph.D），耶魯法律博士（JD）。現任北京清華大學梅汝法學講席教授，兼治法律、宗教、倫理和西方語文。
《創世記：傳說與譯註》（江蘇人民，2004；北京三聯修訂版，2012），
《摩西五經》（牛津大學，2006；北京三聯修訂版，2013），
*****
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Grenfell Inquiry report 
- "Complacent" govt "well aware" of risk of cladding disaster but failed to act
- "Systematic dishonesty" by product manufacturers "very significant reason" for fire
- "Chronic and systemic" fire safety failures by tower's social landlords
****
4 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13 And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
1亞當認識了自己的妻子厄娃，厄娃懷了孕，生了加音說：「我賴上主獲得了一個人。」
2以後她生了加音的弟弟亞伯爾；亞伯爾牧羊，加音耕田。
3有一天，加音把田地的出產作祭品獻給天主；
4同時亞伯爾獻上自己羊群中最肥美而又是首生的羊；上主惠顧了亞伯爾和他的祭品，
5卻沒有惠顧加音和他的祭品；因此加音大怒，垂頭喪氣。
6上主對加音說：「你為什麼發怒？為什麼垂頭喪氣？
7你若做得好，豈不也可仰起頭來？你若做得不好，罪惡就伏在你門前，企圖對付你，但你應制服它。」
8事後加音對他弟弟亞伯爾說：「我們到田間去！」當他們在田間的時候，加音就襲擊了弟弟亞伯爾，將他殺死。
9上主對加音說：「你弟弟亞伯爾在那裏？」他答說：「我不知道，難道我是看守我弟弟的人？」
10上主說：「你作了什麼事？聽！你弟弟的血由地上向我喊冤。
11你現在是地上所咒罵的人，地張開口由你手中接收了你弟弟的血，
12從此你即使耕種，地也不會給你出產；你在地上要成個流離失所的人。」
13加音對上主說：「我的罪罰太重，無法承擔。
14看你今天將我由這地面上驅逐，我該躲避你的面，在地上成了個流離失所的人；那麼凡遇見我的，必要殺我。」
15上主對他說：「決不這樣，凡殺加音的人，一定要受七倍的罰。」上主遂給加音一個記號，以免遇見他的人擊殺他。
16加音就離開上主的面，住在伊甸東方的諾得地方。
17加音認識了自己的妻子，她懷了孕，生了哈諾客。加音建築了一座城，即以他兒子的名字，給這城起名叫「哈諾客」。
18哈諾客生了依辣得；依辣得生了默胡雅耳；默胡雅耳生了默突沙耳；默突沙耳生了拉默客。
19拉默客娶了兩個妻子：一個名叫阿達，一個名叫漆拉。
20阿達生了雅巴耳，他是住在帳幕內畜牧者的始祖。
21他的弟弟名叫猶巴耳，他是所有彈琴吹簫者的始祖。
22同時漆拉也生了突巴耳加音，他是製造各種銅鐵器具的匠人。突巴耳加音有個姊妹名叫納阿瑪。
23拉默客對自己的妻子說：「阿達和漆拉傾聽我的聲音，拉默客的妻子，靜聆我的言語：因我受傷，殺了一成年；因我受損，殺了一青年；
24殺加音的受罰是七倍，殺拉默客的是七十七倍。」
25亞當又認識了自己的妻子，她生了個兒子，給他起名叫舍特說：「天主又賜給了我一個兒子，代替加音殺了的亞伯爾。」
26舍特也生了一個兒子，給他起名叫厄諾士。那時人才開始呼求上主的名。
Every picture has it's shadows
And it has some source of light
Blindness, blindness and sight
The perils of benefactors
The blessings of parasites
Blindness, blindness and sight
Threatened by all things
Devil of cruelty
Drawn to all things
Devil of delight
Mythical devil of the ever-present laws
Governing blindness, blindness and sight
Suntans in reservation dining rooms
Pale miners in their lantern rays
Night, night and day
Hostage smiles on presidents
Freedom scribbled in the subway
It's like night, night and day
Threatened by all things
God of cruelty
Drawn to all things
God of delight
Mythical God of the everlasting* laws
Governing day, day and night
Critics of all expression
Judges in black and white
Saying it's wrong, saying it's right
Compelled by prescribed standards
Or some ideals we fight
For wrong, wrong and right
Threatened by all things
Man of cruelty, mark of Cain**
Drawn to all things
Man of delight, born again, born again
Man of the laws, the ever broken laws
Governing wrong, wrong and right
Governing wrong, wrong and right
Wrong and right
*EVER-PRESENT?
For wrong, wrong and right
Threatened by all things
Man of cruelty, mark of Cain**
** 此次演唱 mark of Cain未唱出，約4分10秒
King James Version
創世紀 第4章第15節
And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
15上主對他說：「決不這樣，凡殺加音/該隱 的人，一定要受七倍的罰。」上主遂給加音一個記號，以免遇見他的人擊殺他。~Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
*****
Greed has poisoned men's souls,
has barricaded the world with hate,
has goose-stepped us into misery
and bloodshed.
We have developed speed,
but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance
has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical;
our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery,
we need humanity.
More than cleverness,
we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities,
life will be violent and all will be lost.
~ Charlie Chaplin
羅馬的。。。。雖然以精準聞名，但也有發生過預算超支的問題，甚至導致私人承包商破產。
例如在現在的黎巴嫩巴勒貝克，有6個超巨大的單體石塊躺在地上，它們都經過工整的打磨，看起來像是要被送往某處作為建材使用。其中，最巨大的石塊重達1650公噸。
然而，這塊巨石連同其他五塊仍躺在原地，而這在當年可能背後是一場商業悲劇。
This is the final week of Calder: Un effet du japonais at Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo. As described in The Japan Times, the exhibition leaves visitors with “a striking perspective on Calder’s art, understanding how his legacy, though firmly rooted in American modernism, truly echoes Japan. Calder himself may never have traveled to Tokyo, but scions of his lineage did—decisively and emphatically. Both in the flesh (his grandson Rower) and in the form of his artistic creations, which are on display here and at 18 museums across Japan.” Calder: Un effet du japonais closes on Friday, 6 September.
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/2uccwtwb
[Image: Installation view, Calder: Un effet du japonais, Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, 2024. Photograph by Tadayuki Minamoto. © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
“Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case. Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions.”
— Bertrand Russell, London Calling (1947), p. 18
━━ 創世紀
Image: The Deluge frontispiece to Doré's illustrated edition of the Holy Bible, 1886. Based on the story of Noah's Ark, the plate portrays humans and a tiger doomed by the flood futilely attempting to save their children and cubs from God's wrath and cruelty.
The global flood is a catastrophic, mythical event found in the book of Genesis. The narrative in the scripture tells the story of a great flooding of the entire surface of world, in which every last human and animal died, except for the ones saved on the Ark, a vessel constructed at God's command by Noah and his sons. The flood, according to the Bible, was justified by this deity since every person in the whole world - except eight people the deity chose - were wicked and warranted death. The precise nature of this “wickedness” is left unclear so believers have been for centuries free to develop their own imaginative and judgmental ideas. This near total extinction, or as some have called “execution“ of Earth's biosphere includes very young children, infants (even the unborn), and almost all the world's animals, all put to death, except for the few animals and Noah's immediate family abroad the Ark, all on account of this deity's displeasure, rage, and cruelty.
“And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle, and the creeping things and the fowl of the heaven, and they were destroyed from the earth.
And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.”
— Genesis 7:21-73
“Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case. Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions.”
— Bertrand Russell, London Calling (1947), p. 18
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Image: The Deluge frontispiece to Doré's illustrated edition of the Holy Bible, 1886. Based on the story of Noah's Ark, the plate portrays humans and a tiger doomed by the flood futilely attempting to save their children and cubs from God's wrath and cruelty.
The global flood is a catastrophic, mythical event found in the book of Genesis. The narrative in the scripture tells the story of a great flooding of the entire surface of world, in which every last human and animal died, except for the ones saved on the Ark, a vessel constructed at God's command by Noah and his sons. The flood, according to the Bible, was justified by this deity since every person in the whole world - except eight people the deity chose - were wicked and warranted death. The precise nature of this “wickedness” is left unclear so believers have been for centuries free to develop their own imaginative and judgmental ideas. This near total extinction, or as some have called “execution“ of Earth's biosphere includes very young children, infants (even the unborn), and almost all the world's animals, all put to death, except for the few animals and Noah's immediate family abroad the Ark, all on account of this deity's displeasure, rage, and cruelty.
“And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle, and the creeping things and the fowl of the heaven, and they were destroyed from the earth.
And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.”
— Genesis 7:21-73
📚影響我最深的一本小說📚
朱和之〈那些虛構的祖靈教我的事──讀《一九四七高砂百合》〉
朱嘉漢〈《西夏旅館》之於我〉
吳佳駿〈一本讀了好久的小說〉
林佑軒〈都春美後，瀟湘神〉
連明偉〈喑啞的鳴叫〉
班與唐〈回到赤裸的起點──重讀《太陽的血是黑的》〉
梁莉姿〈文學的談法——從〈暮色將至〉到《島（新版）》〉
陳栢青〈駱以軍總是比較長〉
楊富閔〈日出〉
蕭熠〈沉默之後的島〉
●精采內容請見《印刻文學生活誌》※九月號➪https://campsite.bio/ink_mag
On this day in 1931, a teenage girl made history in a way that no one saw coming. Jackie Mitchell, the 17-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts, took the mound and did the unthinkable: she struck out baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game. This feat, which sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie, is very real and showcases the incredible talent Mitchell possessed.
From a young age, Mitchell's potential was evident. Living next door to future Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Dazzy Vance, she learned to pitch using his special "drop ball" technique. Her skills quickly advanced, and by 17, she was playing for a women's team, attending a baseball school in Atlanta, and catching the eye of the Chattanooga Lookouts. In 1931, she signed one of the first professional baseball contracts given to a woman.
Mitchell's moment of fame came swiftly that season, but her triumph was short-lived. Despite her impressive performance against Ruth and Gehrig, the baseball commissioner soon voided her contract, deeming the sport "too strenuous" for women. Undeterred, Mitchell continued to play professionally with traveling teams until her retirement in 1937.
Jackie Mitchell's story is a testament to breaking barriers and challenging norms. Her legacy reminds us that talent knows no gender, even if the world isn't always ready to accept it.
談百元鎂賄賂12歲女兒讀完整本小說……新潮文庫十幾本讀書之道的書之外……。 J.
百鳥朝聖：【台灣戴明圈：2008年東海戴明學者講座】導言與介紹 鍾漢清 (Hanching Chung)
波赫士The Book of Imaginary Being的作品中，有一則故事說鳥王Simurge在中國留了一片羽毛。三十隻鳥決定飛往中國見Simurge。經過長途飛行，這三十隻鳥才發覺牠們都是這隻Simurge，牠們其實就是「一體」的。
【在1998年年底的戴明紀念會上，我講有關以西遊記比喻戴明晚年成道的故事。1999年，我讀J. L.Borges的《想像的動物》（台北：志文出版社，楊耐冬譯，pp.164-65）的「知識樹上的不朽鳥西牟[1]（Simurgh）」故事，覺得它是一個很好的修成正道比喻。很顯然，Borges對此故事情有獨鍾，他又在《永恆的故事》（1936）中的〈阿個莫塔斯〉，花了半頁的注解來說明、闡明：尋找者和被尋者，兩者同一，是一體的兩面。】--注
「遠古的鳥王西牟（意思為「三十隻鳥」，牠在中國某地，拋下一根光彩奪目的羽毛。眾鳥兒知道了這件事之後，立即一陣騷動，牠們決定出發去尋找這位鳥王。
開始的時候，有的鳥兒就喪失了勇氣，開了小差：因為夜鶯向改魂求愛去也；鸚鵡祈求能讓美麗永遠鎖在牠的籠中；鷓鴣（松雞）呢，牠不能在山中沒有個家好寄託；蒼鷺不能離開牠的沼澤；貓頭鷹不能沒有廢墟來棲身。
後來，眾鳥兒還是冒著險出發去了。牠們飛越七谷、七海（最後第二個海洋叫「迷海」，最後的名為「滅海」）。這隊伍中殘生的，受盡折磨卻沒離開的，最後只剩下三十隻。牠們歷經千辛萬苦之後，終於抵達西牟大峰。牠們終於得以見到鳥王。
最後，他們終於明白了，其實他們自己就是西牟；西牟也者，就是他們每個個體，也是他們的全體。」
