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Books


2025
Jan: Euripides's Medea (Svarlien; 呂健忠)
Jan: Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Svarlien; 呂健忠)
Jan: Saga of Volsungs (Jesse L Byock)
Mar: Nibelungenlied 1-19 (Hatto; Edwards); 20-39 (Whobrey; Edwards). Hatto's intro to 2R
Mar: Poetic Edda: Sinfiotli to end (Larrington)
Apr: Waltharius (Brian Murdoch)
Apr: Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Byock)
Apr: Nibelungenlied 1-19 (Whobrey), 1-2 (Raffel); Klage (Whobrey)
May: Euripides's Helen (Svarlien; Emily Wilson), Orestes (Svarlien; Ian Johnston), Ion (Svarlien); audio by Center for Hellenic Studies
May: Kudrun Part 1-2 (Whobrey)
Jul: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (方重; 李家真); Audio by Colin Gibbings
[Jul: 北島 :: 波動]
[Aug: 查建英 :: 中國波普 (李家真)]
[Aug: 劉以鬯 :: 酒徒, 對倒, 打錯了, 郵海, 演戲的人]
Sept: Virgil's Georgics (C Day Lewis); Audio excerpts by C Day Lewis
Sept: Aristophanes's Lysistrata (Aaron Poochigian)
[Oct: Peter Mayle's A year in Provence]
[Oct: 劉以鬯 :: 潮濕的記憶]
[Oct: St Benedict's Rule (RB1980)]


2024
[Jan: Dragon King's Daugther (楊憲益, 戴乃迭)]
[Feb: DH Lawrence's 查泰萊 (饒述一)]
Feb: Ovid's Tristia, Ex Ponto (Slavitt)
Mar: Homeric Hymns (Jules Cashford)
Mar: Apollodorus's Library (JG Frazer); 希臘神話 (周作人)
Apr: Ovid's Amores, Cosmetics, Cures (Melville)
Apr: Song of Roland, etc (OUP Gaunt and Pratt); 羅蘭之歌 (楊憲益)
[Apr: 二葉亭四迷 :: 浮雲 (石堅白)]
[Apr: 夏目漱石 :: 心 (林皎碧)]
May: Death of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage)
May: King Lear (孫大雨)
[May: Peter Brook's Open Door (于東田)]
Jun: Mahabharata: 摩訶婆羅多毗濕摩篇 (黃寶生); Retold by Devdutt Pattanaik (余淑慧), by Rajaji (唐季雍), by Carriere/Peter Brook
Jun: 第十二夜 (方平); 元宵 (陳均潤)
[Jul: James Joyce's Dubliners: Sis. to Mother]
[Aug: Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms; 戰地春夢 (湯新楣)]
[Aug: 格非::雪隱鷺鷥卷一, 卷三]
Sept: Pearl (Jane Draycott)
[Sept: OUP vsi: Vatican II, Angels]
[Oct: TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral]
Oct: Dante's Inferno (Allen Mandelbaum)
Oct: Euripides's Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women (DA Svarlien); Marina Carr's Hecuba
Nov: Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (AE Stallings)
Dec: Dante's Purgatorio (Durling; Merwin; 黃國彬; 田德望; 朱維基); Audio by Lucilla Giagnoni
Dec: Euripides's Alcestis (DA Svarlien; Ted Hugh)


2023
Jan: 歷史書 (前先知書) (馮象)
Jan: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Stephanie McCarter)
[Jan: 白先勇::臺北人]
Feb: Keats 濟慈詩選 (查良錚)
Feb: Ovid's Fasti (Anne Wiseman)
Feb: Samuel 1, ch.1-14 (Everett Fox)
Apr: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Allen Mandelbaum)
Jun: Apollonius of Rhodes's Jason and Argonauts (Aaron Poochigian)
[Jul: 三毛::撒哈拉歲月, 稻草人的微笑, 夢中的橄欖樹, 快樂鬧學去, 萬水千山走遍, 流浪的終站]
[Aug: 賀喜, 科大衛::秘密社會的秘密]
Aug: Virgil's Aeneid (David West)
Sept: Sophocles's Oedipus the King (Berg and Clay)
[Sept: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (何瑄)]
Oct: Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautika, Bk 1--2 (Peter Green)
Nov: Iliad (Emily Wilson); Bk 1--7 (呂健忠)
Nov: Horace's Epodes and Odes (David West)
[Nov: 尚仲賢::柳毅傳書雜劇; Liu Yi and Dragon Princess (David Hawkes)]
Dec: Dante's Purgatorio (Sisson)
[Dec: 巴爾扎克::都爾的本堂神甫, 比哀蘭德 (傅雷)]
[Dec: Hammett's The Maltese Falcan]


2022
[Feb: Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs]
[Feb: Jean Webster's Dear Enemy, sequel to DLL]
Feb: Goethe's 浮士德第一部 (錢春綺)
[Mar: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Lady from the Sea, Master Builder (呂健忠)]
Apr: Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannos (Emily Wilson, 呂健忠, Dudley Fitts)
[Apr: 宋怡明::被統治的藝術]
[Jun: 格理弗遊記卷三飛行島 (單德興)]
Sept: Shakespeare's 暴風雨 (楊牧)
Sept: Virgil's Aeneid VI (Seamus Heaney)
Nov: John Milton's Paradise Lost
Nov: Lord Byron's 青銅時代, 貝波, 唐璜選段 (查良錚)
[Dec: 李零::喪家狗]
Dec: Aeschylus's Oresteia (呂健忠)
Dec: Sophocles's Theban plays: Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone (呂健忠)
Dec: Sophocles's Trachiniae, Ajax, Philoctetes, Electra (呂健忠)
Dec: John Milton's Paradise Regained
Dec: 源氏物語, 紫上系及第二部至雲隱 (林文月)


2021
Jan: Tales from Ovid (Ted Hugh)
Jan: Virgil's Eclogues (David Ferry)
May: Hesiod's Work and Days (ML West)
Jun: Alcestis, Phedre, Oresteia (Ted Hugh)
[Jul: Enola Holmes Mysteries 1,3,5,6]
Aug: Ovid's Heroides (Murgatroyd et al.)
Aug: Euripides's Electra (Emily Wilson)
Sept: Ovid's Metamorphoses 1--7 (Charles Martin)
[Oct: Henrietta Harrison's The Missionary's Curse 中譯]
Oct: 近松門左衛門::平家女護島 (錢稻孫)
Oct: 貝奧武甫 (馮象)
Oct: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
Oct: Beowulf (Maria Davana Headley)
Nov: Petrarch's Canzoniere, oup selections (Mark Musa)
Nov: Euripides's Helen (Emily Wilson)
Nov: Aristophanes's 利西翠坦 (呂健忠)
[Dec: 知堂回想錄]
Dec: Seneca's six tragedies (Emily Wilson)
Dec: 太安萬侶::古事記 (周作人)
Dec: 式亭三馬::浮世澡堂 (周作人)


2020
Jan: Ovid's 變形錄 (呂健忠)
Jan: Virgil's Aeneid (Sarah Ruden)
Mar: Virgil's Georgics (David Ferry)
May: Gilgamesh (David Ferry)
May: Horace's Epistles (David Ferry)
May: Horace's Odes (David Ferry)
Jun: Apuleius's Golden Ass: Cupid and Psyche (Sarah Ruden)
Jun: Apuleius's Golden Ass: Cupid and Psyche (Robert Graves)
Aug: 先知書 (後先知書) (馮象)
Nov: Odyssey (Emily Wilson)
Dec: Confessions of St. Augustine (Sarah Ruden)


2019
Mar: Decameron (Mark Musa)
Jul: Dante's Divine Comedy (Mark Musa)
Sept: Ovid's Heroides (Harold Isbell)
Sept: Song of Roland (Robert Harrison)
Sept: Ovid's Metamorphoses 1--3 (Horace Gregory)


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人性枷鎖 Characters


Maugham, Of Human Bondage
人際的束縛

Childhood
# Philip
Philip Carey (1) *
Henry Carey, his late father (1)
Helen Carey, his late mother (1)
Emma, Philp's nurse (1,2,5)
Miss Watkin, mother's friend (1,2,5)

# Blackstable 3--10
Uncle William Carey, vicar (2-10) *
Aunt Louisa Carey, his wife (4-9) *
Mary Ann, their maid (6-9)
Mrs Foster, new maid after Mary Ann (110)
Josiah Graves, churchwarden, nicknamed Bismark (6,8,52)
Dr Wigram, doctor (6,110)

# Preparatory school at Tercanbury 10--14
Mr Watson, headmaster at prep school (10) *
Helen Watson, his wife (10)
Venning, the first school boy Philip met(10)
Singer, a school boy and a bully (11)
Mason, a school boy and a bully (11)
Luard, the classmate who broke Philip's pen-holder (13)

# King's School at Tercanbury 15--21
Mr Tom Perkins, headmaster of King's School (15-17)
Dr Fleming, the former old headmaster (15)
Sighs, Tar (Mr Turner), Winks, Squirts (Mr Gordon), Pat: schoolmasters (15)
Mr Walters, a school boy's father (16)
Rose, Philip's close friend at King's school (18,19)
Hunter, Rose's new friend (19)
Sharp, Philip's new friend (19)
Norton, classmate (21)

Life in Germany and Paris
# Heidelberg (22--31)
Miss Wilkinson, Uncle's friend (22,32,34,35) *
Frau Professor Erlin (22)
Professor Erlin, Philip's teacher of Latin and German (23,24)
Fraeulein Thekla, their elder daughter (22)
Fraeulein Anna, their younger daughter (22, 30)
Fraeulein Hedwig, a german girl in love with Hermann, a hussar (22)
Fraeulein Caecilie, Sung's lover (22, 30)
Herr Sung, a Chinese student (22, 30)
Wharton, Philip's math tutor (22)
Monsieur Ducroz, Philip's teacher of French (25)
Hayward, an Englishman and poet (26) *
Weeks, an American student (26)
Emil, a servant (30)
Fraeulein Foerster, Dutch spinster (30)
Macalister, Hayward's stockbroker friend

# Carter's office at London
Mr Herbert Carter, head of office (36)
Mr Goodworthy, managing clerk
Watson, Carter's client

# Paris
Cronshaw, a poet (42) *
Leonard Upjohn, a publisher (83)
Miss Fanny Price, an art student (40) *
Lawson, art student and Philip's friend *
Foinet, a master at art school
Miguel Ajuria, art model
Mrs Otter, art student
Clutton, art student
Miss Chalice, art student
Flanagan, art student

Return to London
# Mildred
Mildred Rogers, the tea shop girl (57) *
Dunsford, medical student (54)
Emil Miller, salesman, named in 1934 film (68)

# Norah
Mrs Norah Nesbit, a romance novelist (67) *
Mr Kingsford, her future fiance (79)

# St Luke's Hospital, medical school
Harry Griffiths, medical student and Philip's friend (74) *
Dr Tyrell, medical school teacher (81)
Jacobs, surgeon (84)

Final chapters: The Athelnys
# Sally
Thorpe Athelny (87) *
Betty Athelny, her wife (87) *
Sally Athelny, their daughter (87) *

# linen-draper shop
Mr Sampson, buyer (103) *
Alice Antonia, music hall performer
Harris, coworker

# St Luke's Hospital
Chandler, an obstetrician (114)

# Farnley in Dorsetshire
Dr South, old doctor (116)


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主說:「如果你們有信德像芥子那樣大,即使你們給這棵桑樹說: 你連根拔出,移植到海中去!它也會服從你們的。

請增加 = 本來有
如果你們有 = 無

不禁使人想起時人好用的兩個字:「完善」.

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初 (戲與書)


2025:
Aug: 酒徒 S1 (林奕華); 對倒 S1-13, 打錯了 (謝君豪) reading
Sept: 打錯了 (劉以鬯) book, 3d
Sept: 三國演義, book 20d
Sept: 三國志的世界 (金文京) book, 1d
Sept: 茲山魚譜 film
Oct: 精神病你不知道的秘密 (苗延琼) book, 3h


2024:
Jan:* 漢書後漢書故事選 (瞿蛻園) book
May: 柳毅傳書 (元曲選, Hawkes 英譯)
May: 柳毅 (唐傳奇, 楊憲益英譯)
Jul: 貝奧武甫 (馮象譯) book
Dec: 十萬個為甚麼化學篇, 植物篇 book

Jan: A Letter to Three Wives (1949) film
Feb: Lydia (1941) film
Apr: 元宵 (中英劇圑) theatre
Apr: 逼上梁山 (TVB) tv series
Apr: 朱麗小姐 (北京人藝 2002) drama video
Jun: 摩訶婆羅多第一部:骰子戲 (鄧樹榮工作室) play reading
Jun: Mahabharata 1 (Peter Brook) drama video


2023:
Jul: 撒哈拉的故事 (RTHK) radio drama
Jul: 撒哈拉的歲月 (三毛) book
Aug: 稻草人的微笑 (三毛) book

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Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
誰知, 也許, 或會