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為了讓此刻星光班駁而我愛過


於友人家中見到《夏宇詩集》,它的裝幀教人眼前一亮,好像一本夾了大大小小夾頁的筆記簿一樣。隨意翻了兩首,驚豔!

02 竊竊私語

灰睡在灰上,水關在水裡。時間曾經打個摺,把我們摺進去,那個向前標示卻不斷後退的箭頭,原是一大群逆向飛著的蜂。已經是上個世紀、我們存的一大罐蜂蜜──我們的竊竊私語,我們的竊竊私語。



03 你正百無聊賴我正美麗

只有咒語可解除咒語,只有秘密可以交換秘密,只有謎可以到達另一個謎。但是我忽略健康的重要性,以及等待使健康受損,以及愛使生活和諧──除了建議一起生一個小孩,沒有其他更壞的主意:你正百無聊賴,我正美麗。

薄荷在牙膏裡那種正確──當我打穿他 血像牙膏擠出來,結束他的憤怒和疲倦;至少此刻他又是個童男,在死亡面前──如果我自稱是兇手......他們就肯定要一套謀殺的敘述:我把白天當做夜晚這樣大而殘破,為了讓此刻星光班駁而我愛過;死亡如果不是流浪,音樂是垂直的,我們就水平地躺。


至少此刻他又是個童男在死亡面前如果我自稱是兇手──他們就肯定要一套謀殺的敘述:我把白天

至少此刻他又是個童男在死亡面前如果我自稱是兇手──他們就肯定要一套謀殺的敘述:我把白天


(原詩分行,無標點)



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又,網上讀到的:甜蜜的復仇,收於《備忘錄》

把你的影子加點鹽
醃起來
風乾

老的時候
下酒


甜蜜是甜蜜,但兇悍

圓滑?!


學界促當局解教育燃眉之急
大公網 2008-10-28

教育沙龍「從二○○八施政看香港教育前景」
發言者:風采中學副校長何漢權、教聯會主席黃均瑜、香港資助小學校長會主席張志鴻

......

黃:(1a) 施政報告另一項新猷,是研發電子課本。教科書的價格和重量,一直都為市民所關注,研發電子課本,一方面希望可以減輕家長金錢負擔,另一方面也有望減輕學生書包負重。(1b) 然而,教科書牽涉多方面利益,加上長期面對電腦屏幕,可能對學生視力構成影響,有關方面應慎重考慮。

何:(2a) 認同黃均瑜的說法。(2b) 施政報告提到由教育局副局長率領專家小組,推動電子課本,研究電子書及研發電子學習資源。(2c) 但看看歐美、日本以至台灣推行電子書包的經驗,成效不彰,真的有利教育整體質素的提升嗎?家長的擔負果真可以減輕?學童長期在電腦大海裡遊歷學習,真的如此有益身心健康嗎?(2d) 再者,政府真的有需要每月花十多萬聘請副局長和政治助理嗎?

張:(3a) 非常歡迎政府試行「電子書」,讓學生嘗試從媒體上,簡單容易獲取資訊。(3b) 我建議每間學校集體訂一套,循環使用。(3c) 不過,研究電子學習資源需要大量人力物力,加上要小學生長期使用電腦,會傷害眼睛視力,因此這並非一個長遠可行的計劃。


Q1: 比較 1a、1b, 應慎重考慮 = ?
Q2: 到底 2a 同意甚麼?
Q3: 3a 非常歡迎, 3c 並非長遠可行的計劃. 咁, 即係想點?

二刻拍案驚奇


二刻拍案驚奇 (明崇禎五年, 1632年)

1. 市場與政府干預

原來大凡年荒米貴,官府只合靜聽民情,不去生事,少不得有一夥有本錢趨利的商人,貪那貴價,從外方賤處販將米來。有一夥有家當囤米的財主,貪那貴價,從家裡廒中發出米去。米既漸漸輻輳,價自漸漸平減,這個道理也是極容易明白的。

最是那不識時務執拗的腐儒做了官府,專一遇荒就行禁糶、閉糴、平價等事。他認道是不使外方糴了本地米去,不知一行禁止,就有棍徒詐害,遇見本地交易,便自聲揚犯禁,拿到公庭,立受枷責。(1) 那有身家的怕惹事端,家中有米,只索閉倉高坐。又且 (2) 官有定價,不許貴賣,無大利息,何苦出糶? (3) 那些販米的客人,見官價不高,也無想頭。就是 (4) 小民私下願增價暗糴,俱怕敗露受責受罰。有本錢的人不肯擔這樣干繫,幹這樣沒要緊的事。所以越弄得市上無米,米價轉高。

(卷一 進香客莽看金剛經 出獄僧巧完法會分)


* 輻輳(湊) vs 輻射
* 不知一行禁止,就有棍徒詐害


2. 搭煞

翰林看了道:「原來是人家婚姻照驗之物,是個要緊的,如何卻將來遺下又被人賣了?也是個沒搭煞的人了。」(第三卷 權學士權認遠鄉姑 白孺人白嫁親生女)



3. 收科

那女子拈著香,跪在佛前,對著上面,口裡喃喃吶吶,低低微微,不知說著許多說話,沒聽得一個字。那妙通老尼便來收科道:「小娘子,你的心事說不能盡,不如我替你說一句簡便的罷。」(卷三)




4. 戤典. 戤, 音鈣
砉然. 砉, 音或.

real roots


世事總是如此: 當場想不到答案, 一轉頭就想出來了.

Q:

If a, b, and c are real, show that the equation
(b-c)x^2 + (c-a)x + (a-b) = 0 always has real roots.



A:

Rewrite the equation as Ax^2 + Bx + C = 0.
Noting that A+B+C=0, we get
\delta = B^2 - 4AC = (A+C)^2 - 4AC = (A-C)^2
which is non-negative. QED.

BTW, it has double roots when A = C, namely, 2b = a+c.
In other words, when b is the mean of a and c.



Further:

Does the equation always have real roots too if all the minus signs become plus signs: (b+c)x^2 + (c+a)x + (a+b) = 0 ?

No.

I sat next the Duchess at tea


打油詩

喝茶挨著公爵夫人坐。
我早料到這會惹上禍:
 夫人腹中隆隆叫,
 實在教人吃不消。
落得人人心裡都怪我。

(姚錦清譯, 參余光中評語略改)


怪我做甚麼?

To Robert Browning, etc.


1. Walter Savage Landor, ``To Robert Browning''

贈白朗寧

歌唱自有樂趣,即使除歌手外|沒有一個人能聽見;讚賞|也自有樂趣,縱使讚美者獨坐|看受讚者遙不可即,高高在上。|莎翁不屬於我國詩壇而屬於天下,|且不用多讚;對你,也不妨簡短:|白朗寧!自喬叟發揚蹈厲以來,|未有人走過詩壇的大道,腳步|如此矯捷,眼光如此明察,口才|如此地變化窮極。但風土更溫暖|教羽毛更鮮明,飛翼更健;你駕著|阿爾卑斯群巔的清風,一路飛揚|凌越索倫多和亞馬非,來到嬌姬|賽倫等你之地,一曲一曲相答和。

──蘭道

*陳次雲譯,參余光中之評語略改。原譯見百花文藝余光中集第九卷含英咀華





2. Emily Dickinson, ``I years has been from home''
(情怯舊居前)

離家我已多年,
如今,人到了門前
竟不敢打開,生怕一張
從沒見過的臉

茫然注視我,
問我所為何事,
我的事──不外遺落的一生
是否依然在此?

我壯一壯膽,
掃視身邊的窗戶;
寂靜像一片汪洋在翻騰
怒濤拍打耳鼓。

我木然笑了,
一扇門也畏懼?
我這人面對過危險和死亡
卻從未如此心虛。

伸手按住門閂,
我謹慎得顫抖,
唯恐可怕的門往後一彈,
留我獨立在門口。

我把手指縮回,
戰兢如對待玻璃,
然後捂著雙耳,像小偷
逃走,猛喘著氣。

*丁雍嫻譯,參余光中評語修改。原譯見余集卷九

張五常, etc.


1. 南周, 张五常:“平生没有见过这么好的制度”

其實我懷疑自己看不看得明白他寫甚麼, 這些我實在不懂.


2. 若缺齋
阪井三郎與零戰二書 (一)
英國何以稱「第一」?(一), (二), (三), (四)

鏘鏘三人行(訪問朱天文)


一豆, 終於等到.

第二三部分有趣些. 朱天文愛談胡蘭成雖然理所當然, 可是聽著她老在讚他怎的怎的, 就是不爽.

四字熟語


四字熟語

社會 = 美脚重視
作者 = 食事重視
翻譯 = 暗闇王子
編輯 = 赤字一筋
結婚 = 波乱人生
婚姻 = 惨敗宣言

小C = 悪口二段
阿四 = 災難美人

難忘郁達夫


難忘郁達夫


  Heine《Harzreise》

  Ledet wohl, ihr glatten Saale,
  Glatte Herren, glatte Frauen!
  Auf die Berge will ich steigen,
  Lachend auf euch niederschauen!


  浮薄的塵寰,無情的男女,
  你看那隱隱的青山,我欲乘風飛去,
  且住且住,
  我將從那絕頂的高峰,笑看你終歸何處。

  (excerpt from 郁達夫《沉淪》)

Antigone


Kyle Brenton, Acts of War

At the center of Sophocles' original play is a struggle to reconcile personal beliefs with the needs of society. At no time is this question more relevant than in periods of war . . .


Brecht's Antigone is a vehement and uncompromising attack on tyranny . . . Brecht uses the Antigone myth as a platform for his economic philosophy. His Chorus expresses concern for the wartime metal shortage in Thebes, and repeatedly asks when the treasure-wagons from Argos will arrive.

mathmatica makes students miss the point?


Walk versus Wait: The Lazy Mathematician Wins

In this recreational mathematics note, we address a simple, yet instructive question:

Justin has to travel a distance of d miles along a bus route. Along this route, there are n bus stops i, each spaced at a distance of d_i from the starting point. At each bus stop, Justin is faced with a choice: to walk or to wait. If he walks on, he can still catch a bus at the next bus stop--but if a bus passes him while he walks, he is almost assured a longer wait.

We model Justin's decision constraint and completely solve the model in a special case. The answer is intuitive: the optimal strategy is the laziest.







16 Puzzles for International Puzzle Day




Flipping Out over Technology in Education

In one of the two main examples cited in the study, the students waste time carefully and cleverly using Mathematica to solve a difficult integral that, it turns out, they didn’t need to solve in the first place because it cancels out. Why does it cancel out? Because if it didn’t, this wouldn’t be a homework problem; it would be way too hard to solve by hand.

A student who didn’t have Mathematica but did have rudimentary test-taking skills would have realized immediately that the problem couldn’t be that hard, and would have started looking for ways around the integral.

You can call that a higher level of thinking, and blame Mathematica for leading the students astray, but I think this misses the point. In any sort of real-world scientific problem, chances are you actually would need to solve the integral. Are we really serving our students well by shielding them from this reality and encouraging them to look for tricks and shortcuts they know must be there simply by virtue of the fact that they’re working on a homework problem and not a real-world problem?



BTW,
Schools are not just about teaching practical skills, they are about our hope for the future. They must help our children think with depth and clarity, see the world with open eyes, and ultimately be our worthy successors in the great enterprise we call civilization.

平遙鎮國寺, etc,


1. Rosas

Rosas (玫瑰花)

En un día de estos en que suelo pensar
這是那些日子當中的某一天,我習慣了說服自己說——
“hoy va a ser el día menos pensado”,
“今天把心放下,什麼也不想”
nos hemos cruzado, has decidido mirar,
我們擦肩而過,你下了決心看看身旁
a los ojitos azules que ahora van a tu lado
身旁飄過的那雙藍眼睛,正向你看過來



歐洲語言, 德法意西, 似乎越近地中海, 聲音越好聽.


2. 梁啟超談佛學 P20
山西平遙 鎮國寺
五代萬佛殿 十一尊佛像
當中如來, 兩側迦葉, 阿難
向外, 文殊普賢, XX天王

___________ | 寺數 | 僧數
承明元年476 | 7000 | 80K
________580 | 30K | 2000K
(永平釋老志)


3. 9部偉大的中世纪歷史影片
燈:照明的歷史



4. The Decalogue (1988, Kieslowski)

第一誡——生命無常/電腦 (崇一天主)
第二誡——進退维谷/絕症 (不可僭妄)
第三誡——黑夜漫遊/聖誕夜 (當守聖日)
第四誡——父女迷情/父女 (孝爾父母)
第五誡——殺人影片/的士 (不可殺人)
第六誡——愛情短片/偷窺 (不可姦淫)
第七誡——真假母親/私生女 (不可偷盜)
第八誡——心靈之罪/納粹 (不可妄證)
第九誡——/性無能 (毋覬人妻)
第十誡——/郵票 (毋貪人財)

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what a drag


what a drag

Most sailors are fully aware of friction drag: the resistance caused by the skin friction of a surface moving through a fluid. As the yacht (the surface) moves through the water (the fluid), it develops a boundary layer, or region of interrupted flow, surrounding the submerged surfaces. The water immediately touching the hull (the base of the boundary layer) is actually moving at the same speed as the hull. The hydrodynamic no-slip condition occurs all along the base of the boundary layer, due to the viscosity of the fluid. Further away from the hull surface, the water gradually returns to its normal flow, which occurs at the edge of the boundary layer. This transition of flow within the boundary layer causes inter-molecular shear stresses, which requires a certain force to overcome.

As the boat moves forward, it pushes water out of the way. Due to conservation of energy (remember that law from physics?), the moving boat must use some of its own energy to push the water out of the way. This loss of energy would tend to slow the boat down, which means that more energy is required to keep the boat moving at the original speed, in other words an increase in drag.

disable 持續追縱格式設定


microsoft word stylesheet
工具 > 選項 > 編輯 > 持續追縱格式設定 > unselect

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heaven can wait (Lubitsch)


wonderful.

看完劉別謙的heaven can wait, 我只想到wonderful這個字. 輕盈, 溫婉. 幽默而不尖刻. 和悅, 卻籠罩著淡淡的哀愁.

對侷促社會的反動javascript:void(0)

cf. bergman, fanny and alexender