我達達的馬蹄聲
「我達達的馬蹄聲是美麗的錯誤,我不是歸人,是個過客......」(鄭愁予)
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(reminder: all quotes here are fiddled, probably.)
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卡拉OK侍應周筱蘭,與男友Ken感情穩定,直至陳蕙貞走到面前告訴她一件事。「你沒見過我,不過我認識你。」阿貞原是Ken的前度女友,卻在個多月前無故被阿Ken拋棄。但她向蘭強調,這次並不是要跟她爭奪Ken,而是Ken在分手後,竟將二人過去的一張裸照放上互聯網公諸同好,令學校辭退貞教職。貞說想取回Ken手上照片,蘭為避免步貞後塵,決定與貞聯手進行潛入Ken家盜寶大行動,偷回彼此與Ken拍下的裸照。過程中二女相濡以沫,興奮如一場仲夏嘉年華,當中產生了一份微妙的女性情誼。
...... 慨自滿賊篡位以來,禮儀不存,廉恥盡喪。暴斂橫征,野皆狼心狗行之吏;賣官鬻爵,朝盡兔頭獐腦之人。有錢生,無錢死,衙門竟同市肆;朘民膏,剝民脂,官府直如盜賊。而且選舉不公,登庸盡棄,八旗之族滿朝廷,六合之英伏草莽。登第發甲,徒作田舍之翁;納賄捐資,旋登天府之籍。所以政教日衰,風俗頹敗,人心離而國勢難支矣。......
---- 1853年9月7日《平胡大都督李示》
... Since the Manchurian bandits capture the throne, propriety has ceased to exist, and all sense of shame has been lost. All over the country, there are officals with the hearts of wolves and the practice of dogs, who are oppressive, and whose demands are arbitary. They sell official posts and titles, and the Imperial Court is thus staffed with people with rabbit heads and deer breasts. The ya-men is like a market: Those who have money may live, and those who do not die. Nomination to official titles is unjust, employment is wasted. Bannermen fill the Imperial Court, and brilliant people from all quarters fall to the wayside. Those who are successful in examinations aim only to cultivate their own estates. Through bribery, they can reach high positions. Consequently, order has declined, and customs degenerate. People's hearts are not together and the country cannot depend itself...
---- David Faure, Secret societies, heretic sects, and peasan rebellions in nineteeth century china.