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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, Klage (Whobrey); 1-2 (Raffel)
May: Euripides's Helen (Svarlien; Emily Wilson), Orestes (Svarlien; Ian Johnston), Ion (Svarlien); audio by Center for Hellenic Studies


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)


齊東負鼓盲翁


Conversation with AI (Assistant @poe.com)

齊東負鼓盲翁 的 典故

《齊東負鼓》中的典故講述的是一位盲人以鼓為生的故事。這位盲翁在齊國的東邊,因為失明,無法辨別音樂的高低。他的鼓聲雖然響亮,但缺乏節奏,常常受到人們的嘲笑。

故事的核心在於揭示盲翁的堅持與熱愛,儘管他遭遇困難,仍然努力追求自己的藝術。這個典故常用來表達對於追求夢想、克服困難的尊重,或形容某些人對事物的認知不足而造成的失誤。

出自何典

《齊東負鼓》出自《戰國策》,具體是《戰國策·齊策》。這篇故事通過盲翁的形象,強調了對音樂藝術的追求以及人們對於才能和努力的不同看法。典故常用來諷刺那些不能正確評價他人能力的人。

請引原文

《齊東負鼓》這個典故出自《戰國策》,具體是《戰國策·齊策》。故事講述了一位盲翁在齊國東邊以鼓為生的情景。這位盲翁雖然失明,但他仍然堅持敲鼓,並且對自己的藝術充滿熱情。雖然他的鼓聲缺乏節奏,常常受到周圍人的嘲笑,但他依然不懈追求自己的夢想。

以下是《齊東負鼓》的原文:

> 斜陽古柳赵家庄,负鼓盲翁正作场。
> 死后是非谁管得,满村听说蔡中郎。

這段詩句描繪了盲翁在村莊中表演的情景,並引發了對於人們如何評價他人及其藝術的思考。這個典故常用來諷刺那些不能正確評價他人能力的人,並強調內心的價值和追求的重要性。

### 典故的意義
- **堅持與熱愛**:盲翁的故事象徵著對藝術的堅持和熱愛。
- **評價的偏見**:故事反映了人們對於才能的不同看法,提醒我們不應以表面來評價他人。

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齊東負鼓盲翁

Always learning


好學敏求

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Orestes, Ion


Euipides, trs by Svarlien

Orestes, line 395:
My body's gone; my name is with me still.

我雖形銷骨立, 但名字猶存

418.
Terror pays back terror.

653.
Well said; go and speak. For sometimes silence / is better than speech, and sometimmes speech is better.

(by Ian Johnston, 756)
You’re right. Speak up. / There are times when silence may be better, / but there are also times when speaking / is preferable to saying nothing.


Ion, 264:
O gods, is there no limit to your nerve, / nothing you won't dare? And then---what next? / What court will hear our grievances? Injustice / destroys us, but the unjust have the power.

Checks for pedagogy


Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown)
Math's pedagogical curse, JPBM Award Lecture, JMM 2023

Checks for rigor
* Are the definitions unambiguous?
* Has each object in each theorem been given a clear definition?
* Is each claim given a rigourous justification?

Checks for pedagogy
* Do definitions have motivating examples?
* Do proofs feel rediscover-able?
* Is there personality?
* Are there enough diagrams?
* Is relative importance highlighted?


貪功起釁


世情也

Sancte Deus (Tallis)


Thomas Tallis

Sancte Deus, sancte fortis, sancte et immortalis miserere nobis.
Nunc Christe, te petimus, miserere quaesumus,
qui venisti redimere perditos noli damnare redemptos,
quia per crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
Amen.

Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy and Immortal One, have mercy upon us.
Now, O Christ, we ask thee, we beseech thee, have mercy.
Thou who came to redeem the lost, do not condemn the redeemed:
For by thy cross thou hast redeemed the world.
Amen.

韓劇、泰劇、台劇


(From Nov 2022, c.)

韓劇 :
王后傘下 2022 NF *
千寰律師 2022 DN+ *
文森佐 2021 NF **
非常律師禹英禑 2022 NF **
機智醫生生活 2. 2021 NF *
社內相親 2022 NF
女王製造者 2023 NF **
不瘋不狂不愛你 2023 NF
醫生車智淑 2023 NF *
特工家族 2023 DN+
機智的醫生生活 2020 NF *
機智的監獄生活 2017 NF *
Stealer:七個朝鮮通寶 2023 tvN
XX 娜娜的酒吧 2020 MBC * (插敍的小品)
絕世網紅 2023 NF
有益的欺詐 2023 tvN **
舊案尋凶第二季 2023 DN+ *
(結尾過於倉卒牽強. 然而十字街頭一幕很精采)
Numbers:大廈之林的監視者 2023 MBC *
(雖然片中會計師樓所起的作用, 渲染得有點過份)(企業森林/商廈叢林的監察者)
歡迎來到王之國 2023 NF (歡迎光臨王者之國)
今生也請多指教 2023 NF *
哲仁王后 2020 tvN (古裝胡鬧劇. 以自我性別意識的轉變為眼)
雖然是神經病但沒關係 2020 NF ** (神經病但沒相干 / 神經病又何妨)
盜賊之歌 2023 NF *
戀愛不可抗力 2023 NF
大耀酒店 2024 TVN
烏當堂堂家族 2024 KBS 1TV (肥皂劇)
財閥X刑警 2024 DN+
愛在獨木橋 2024 tvN
我的完美秘書 2025 SBS *
玉氏夫人傳 2024 JTBC
加州汽車旅館 2025 MBC


泰劇 :
泰國洞穴救援事件簿 2022 ** NF


台劇 :
仙女姐姐來我家 2022 衛視 (肥皂劇)


繁有徒


[聖母聖衣堂, 和路加一齊過四旬期 #8, 14:01--]


路 8: 26--30 (吳經熊新經全集)

耶穌甫登岸,鎮中有人迎面至;是人久為鬼魔所憑,不衣不廬,素寓塚中。

......魔之屢憑此人,由來已久;雖繫以鐵索,械以桎梏,輒自折斷而為魔逐至曠野。

耶穌乃問之曰:「爾何名?」對曰:「繁有徒」;以魔之入其身者甚夥,故云。

爾何名? 繁有徒.

繁有徒, 不如譯「大軍」(羅馬兵圑). 我思疑路加安這個名, 或者以此字譯彼等之名, 根本在刻意影射羅馬軍, 將他們比諸群魔. 所以馬上要煞有介事, 鄭重補一句 以其甚夥故云, 來修飾一下, 以免過於露骨.

31--37

適有豖群,放牧山坡,魔求入豖身,耶穌允之; 群魔乃離其人入豖群。豖忽闖下山坡,投淵而溺。...... 熱辣瑟四境居民,皆惴焉而懼,共懇耶穌離境;耶穌乃登舟以返。

或謂, 群豬寧死亦不甘為魔所憑, 故投淵而溺. 斯誠為一說. 然魔亦非不憑不可, 縱憑亦一可矣, 無須憑於眾. 求入豖群而促之盡溺, 使耶穌不容於該處, 大概亦未必無此用心.

耶穌豈不之知. 知之而故允之, 自是別有心意.

38--40
惟脫魔者求與偕往,耶穌遣之歸, 囑曰:「且回家以傳揚天主施汝之洪恩。」其人往,遍歷城鄉,廣傳耶穌所行神跡。

你有張良計, 我亦有過牆之梯.

上下教會同聲


Charles Wesley

O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
聖名榮光歌

Glory to God, and praise and love,
Be ever, ever given;
By saints below and saints above,
The Church in earth and heaven.

天上聖眾地下聖徒,
上下教會同聲,
讚美主愛榮耀歸神,
千秋萬古永恆。(二版普天頌讚)


聖經是信仰的基礎, 聖詩是信仰的表達.

有天偶然在 youtube 上, 看到一個基督新教與天主教對談的節目, 主持人提起祈請聖母及諸聖代禱的問題. 心想, 這位主持人, 難道不知道普天頌讚中的名曲: 聖名榮光歌嗎? 怎麼下判斷下得這麼隨便?

更何況, 自說自話, 怎稱得上對話.

Pending


Nibelungenlied Part 2: Raffel

Poetic Edda, Herodotus

vsi:
virgin mary, saints, angels, devils, austen, french lit, shakespeare's comedies

書的歷史, 上班記,
半透明鏡, 忽必烈,

HK Diaries

Mangham short stories 1, 3, 4

沉睡夢中


(撒 26:12)

誰也沒有看見,誰也沒有理會,誰也沒有醒來,都沉睡了,因為上主使他們沉入睡夢中。(思高)

沒有人看見,沒有人知道,也沒有人醒起,都睡著了,因為耶和華使他們沉沉地睡了。(和合本)

沒有人看到或知道,也沒有人醒來;都沉睡著,因為耶和華降下一片昏睡,裹住了他們。(馮象)

No one saw or knew or woke up; all remained asleep; a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them. (NJPS)

No one saw, no one knew, no one woke up; they were all asleep, because a torpor from Yahweh had fallen on them. (NJB)

... with no one seeing and no one knowing and no one waking, for they were all asleep, for the LORD'S deep slumber had fallen upon them. (Alter)

The whole camp was asleep; no one saw him, no one knew anything, no one even woke up. A heavy sleep sent by the LORD had fallen on them. (NEB)

... and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them. (KJV)

... und es war niemand, der es sah oder merkte oder der erwachte, sondern sie schliefen alle; denn es war ein tiefer Schlaf vom HERRN auf sie gefallen. (Lutherbibel 2017)

No one saw it, or knew it, nor did anyone awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them. (NRSV)

No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep. (NIV)

Also see Ge 2:21; Ge 15:12

Snow


James Joyce, The Dead:

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight.

The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland.

It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.

It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

功夫片/武打片


代表作

1. 關德興黃飛鴻電影 (黑白片)

2. 張徹, 胡金銓 (武俠片)
獨臂刀, 刺馬
龍門客棧, 俠女

3. 李小龍

4. 成龍 (諧趣功夫片)
醉拳, 蛇形刁手

5. 李連杰, 甄子丹

6. 卧虎藏龍
一代宗師

custody


常年期第五主日集禱祝文
Collect of the 5th week in ordinary time

仁慈的上主,你天上的恩寵,是我們唯一的仰望; 求你守護你的家庭, 常常保佑我們。

1. Familiam tuam continua pietate custodi,
Keep your family safe with unfailing care,
你呢個大家庭, 望你守護住佢, 地久天長, 不離不棄

2. ut / that / 如此一來

3. quae in sola spe gratiae caelestis innititur,
relying solely on the hope of heavenly grace,
一心指望你的天恩

4. tua semper protectione muniatur.
they may be defended always by your protection.
時時有你「射住」「照住」

Luce 陸緝熙


Luce 黃昭君, 明光麗 (綾波麗), 小光
(緝熙 = 光明, 典出詩經)
希望的朝聖者 (台灣譯本, 略修以叶粵音)

*希望之火熊熊燃起,
願這歌聲上達於~你。
永恆無限生命之源,
人在旅途我信賴你。(......全依靠你)
(Like a flame my hope is burning, / may my song arise to you: / Source of life that has no ending, / on life's path I trust in you.)


1.眾國眾語言和民族,
在你聖言中找到光明。
四散纖弱的兒女,(......的幼兒)
被你愛子親迎擁抱入懷。
(Ev'ry nation, tongue, and people / find a light within your Word. / Scattered fragile sons and daughters / find a home in your dear Son.)

*希望之火 ...... 我信賴你。

2.上主堅毅溫良看顧我們,
白日初露新~曙光
生命之神衝破束~縛,(......樊~籬)
新天新~地煥然更~新。
(God, so tender and so patient, / dawn of hope, you care for all. / Heav'n and earth are recreated / by the Spirit of Life set free.)

*希望之火 ...... 我信賴你。

3.抬頭舉目御風同行,
步伐加勁主即將來臨。
聖子甘願降生成人
萬民尋~得真理門徑
(Raise your eyes, the wind is blowing, / for our God is born in time. / Son made man for you and many / who will find the way in him.)

*希望之火 ...... 我信賴你。

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04. (午) 蘿蔔糕 . (晚) 拳頭餃黃芽菜湯麵
05. (午) 炒雜錦飯. (晚) 大戶屋
06. (午) 蘿蔔糕 . (晚) 臘味糯米飯
07. (午) -- . (晚) 拳頭餃湯麵
08. (午) 蘿蔔糕 . (晚) 蕃茄大蝦飯
09. (午) 雞脾菇甘笋炒烏冬 . (晚) 翠湖團年


2021.02
01. (午) 魚粥, 炒麵 . (晚) 煎鯖魚飯
02. (午) -- . (晚) 䱽魚飯
03. (午) 藕餅飯 . (晚) 腐皮卷飯
04. (午) 蕃茄湯耳塊 . (晚) 滷水蛋飯
05. (午) 紅菜頭湯, 鯇魚飯 . (晚) 蕃茄湯, 魚肉白菜飯
06. (午) 藕餅鯖魚粟米羹飯 . (晚) 炸豬扒椰菜花飯
09. (午) 紫菜湯麵 . (晚) 外家圑年
10. (午) 釀豆腐飯 . (晚) 紫菜湯, 雞柳蛋飯
11. (午) 菠菜湯, 雞柳蛋飯 . (晚) 沙田圑年
16. (午) 粟米粥 . (晚) 粟米粥, 蒸蛋
17. (午) 蕃茄飯 . (晚) 韶菜湯耳塊
18. (午) 粟米蓉西芹飯. (晚) 淮山魚肉粒飯
19. (午) 鯇魚飯 . (晚) 水餃韶菜湯麵
20. (午) 蕃茄西芹飯 . (晚) 南瓜湯, 炒蛋飯
23. (午) 魚肉麵 . (晚) --
24. (午) 魚肉麵 . (晚) 蕃茄湯飯
25. (午) 蕃茄蛋煎雞脾飯 . (晚) 煎魚油墨菜絲瓜飯

沖繩食店


1. 機場/名護
-琉家: soba 三枚肉 *
-名護 筑前屋 居酒屋: 串燒 *,

2. 名護
-美麗海餐車: soba
-松之古民家: 阿古豬火鍋 *
-FamilyMart: 黑豚豬肉包 *

3. 名護
-伊豆味山 よしこ (Yoshiko) 食堂: soba 豬蹄 *, 三枚肉 * (atv 越野車場 Yanbaruncher 外)
-餐車: 章魚燒 *, 串燒 (AEON Nago 停車場)
-濱壽司 (HAMA-SUSHI): 石坦貝壽司 *, 海膽軍艦, etc

4. 名護/那霸
-名護 白浜 (Shirahama) Hotel: 法式早餐
-美榮橋 花より 秋田料理居酒屋: 魚生, 秋田食物 (秋田湯鍋*, 煎小黃魚*, 冷烏冬*, 醋冷食*, 淮山, 漬蘿蔔)

5. 那霸
-玉泉洞 金ちゃんふれあい市場: 飯圑 * (55號巴士下車站附近小店家)
-那霸巴士總站外 鳥玉泉崎店 (Toritama Izumizaki): 黃金南蠻滑蛋煎雞扒定食 *, 魚子生蛋拌飯定食 *
-美榮橋 しぃーぶん (Shiibun) 烏冬店: 昆布烏冬, 咖喱飯 (沖映通 Okiei st, 過 Junkudo 書店至國際通之間)

6. 那霸糸滿
-糸滿魚市場
-對面海鮮餐廳

Week 33 in Ordinary Time


常年期第三十三主日

Entrance Antiphon and Collect
進堂詠及集禱祝文


The Lord said: I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. You will call upon me, and I will answer you, and I will lead back your captives from every place.
(Jer 29: 11, 12, 14)

上主說:我的心意不是災不是禍,而是平安。 你們呼求我,我必俯聽, 從各方各處你們被擄之所,把你們領回。


Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God, / the constant gladness of being devoted to you, / for it is full and lasting happiness / to serve with constancy / the author of all that is good.

(良一世禮典, 五六世紀)

吾主上帝,求你賜給我們
時時都懷有 因對你一心一意
而油然生出的怡悅,
一切美善都出自你的手筆
能夠恆心地為你效勞, 就是恆久又圓滿的幸福。

(......怡悅,因為恆心地為你效勞,就是圓滿又恆久的幸福——所有美善,都出自你的機杼。)


或:吾主上帝,求你賜給我們
因專一於你而悠然怡悅的心境,
因為恆心事奉你,
一切美善的創作者,
就是圓滿而永恆的幸福。


或:吾主上帝,求你加惠我眾
因專一於你而欣欣然常悅,
你是一切美善的創作者,
恆心事奉你,就是幸福,美滿而恆存。


(2022 彌撒經書:上主、我們的天主,求你幫助我們 忠誠喜悅地事奉你, 因為你是一切美善的根源; 唯有事奉你,我們才能獲得永恆圓滿的幸福。)

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

因你的聖子、我們的主耶穌基督, 他和你及聖神,是唯一上帝,永生永王。

山陰道上 (改寫)


(參閱原文)

一條清澈的小河,右面盡是田畝,左面是個村莊。 沿河有一條修長的石路,隔河遠望, 村莊的背後是一聯青翠的山岡。 這條石路,就是所謂「山陰道上,應接不暇」的山陰道。 誠然是「青的山,綠的水,花花世界。」

道上行人很少, 我們愛那清冷,一月裏總來散步二三次。 道上有個路亭, 再往前走,來到一座石橋邊, 橋下的河水,清潔可鑑。

下午,一片斜暉將河水鍍了一層黃金, 一群白鴨聚成三角形,最魁梧的一頭做嚮導, 在那鍍金的水波上向前游去,向前游去。 河水被鴨子分成二路,無數軟弱的波紋向左右展開, 展到河邊的小草裏,展到河邊的石子上,展到河邊的泥裏……

我們在橋欄上注視著河水的流動。 那種喜悅,有如脣上的微笑、輕勻的呼吸、和善的目光。 還記得那一天,我和他兩人,看了這幅天然的妙畫, 默然相視,彷彿心靈已契合在一起,無須多言。

遠地的山岡,巍然站在四圍, 閃出散漫的青色薄光來。 山腰裏寥落的松柏也似乎看得清楚, 不似早春時候盡被白漫漫的雲霧罩著。 橋左邊的山,形態各異,獨立在那邊, 黃色裏泛出青綠。 (不過山上沒有一株樹木,似乎太單調; 山麓下卻有無數的竹林和叢藪。)

.....

山陰道上


徐蔚南:

一條修長的石路,右面盡是田畝,左面是一條清澈的小河。 隔河是個村莊,村莊的背後是一聯青翠的山岡。 這條石路,原來就是所謂「山陰道上,應接不暇」的山陰道。


一條清澈的小河,右面盡是田畝,左面是個村莊。 沿河有一條修長的石路,隔河遠望, 村莊的背後是一聯青翠的山岡。 這條石路,原來就是所謂「山陰道上.....

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不敢浮泛地說文章好不好, 它也許有可堪玩味之處, 但決不適合作小學範文, 因為行文有瑕玼, 不夠上乘. 而且繼後的段落, 經課文改寫後 也太散漫, 讀來不夠簡鍊, 有的拖沓, 有的湊併, 有的紊亂, 且文末還一派五四濫情的文藝腔 (畢竟是1926年的作品), 相當稚嫩.

小學生以此為範本學作文, 最學壞手勢.

跑馬地


跑馬地天主教墳場門口, 有一名聯:
今夕吾軀歸故土, 他朝君體也相同.
人盡皆知.

陳佐才法政牧師曾於書中謂, 吾與君二字對調, 更富緬懷之意. :
今夕君軀歸故土, 他朝吾體也相同.
誠然.

若容許再多改幾個字:
今日君魂歸天國, 他朝我輩亦相從.
也許更有基督教的味道.

工整與否, 就莫計較了.

或曰, "今夕爾魂適天國", 如何 ?
按: 畫蛇添足. 曰君, 曰魂歸天國, 合乎挽語格式, 通俗易懂,
本來就不合對聯規格平仄, 無謂改 D 唔改 D, 適得其反.

余光中, 夢幻舞馬


中大視野「詩與音樂──前言與朗誦會 」
余光中唸夢幻舞馬 (youtube)(手跡)



夢幻舞馬!西方人怎麼把海
叫成了mar,巧合得多麼生動
一匹馬單奔成流利的散文
兩匹馬並馳就成了駢麗
一排馬向你奔騰而來呢
飄鬃引領著長尾,肩膂起伏
馬蹄錯落,馬首昂揚成浪濤
向你衝來,怎麼得了這海潮
瞬間就將你淹沒若海嘯

那一夜,我們的脈搏加速
似乎跨上了昭陵六駿
不,何止六駿,是六駿用八乘
是震動天方夜譚的驍騰
是路西塔諾,是西班牙純種
不是來沙場奔突,投身殺戮
冒著矢雨和矛簇,不是來受鞭笞
來送軍機火急或荔枝新鮮
從海角的驛亭到天涯的終站
而是來自遠古,來帶領我們
拋下一切,再返回從前

當他們還是自由之身
在野之身,造化初造成
與人親近,做人的良朋
帶我們去大野放蹄馳驟
踹過大漠,繞過火山
穿過綠陰染頰的森林
穿過悠久的中世紀,文藝復興
似乎憑空我們添了四蹄
人馬一體,兩命合成了一心
直到馬蹄踏進了夢境
蹄音踏踏呼應著心跳頻頻
夢幻舞馬乎,馬舞幻夢乎
要進那世界,只需念一聲咒
Cavalia,就叫開了門


(原詩無分段)

張愛玲, 談吃


惘然記: 談吃與畫餅充飢

上乘的中文, 上乘得令人愛不惜手


P.138
老大昌還有一種肉饀煎餅叫匹若嘰 (pierogie), 老金黃色, 疲軟作布袋形. 我因為油煎的不易消化沒買.

老大昌還有一種肉饀煎餅叫匹若嘰 ...... 我因為油煎的不易消化沒買.

P.140
美國沒有「司空」, 但是有「英國麥分 (muffin)」, 東部的較好, 式樣與味道都有點像酒釀餅, 不過切成兩片抹黃油.

...... 有點像酒釀餅, 不過切成兩片抹黃油.

P.141
美國常見的只有一種德國黑麵包還好 (westphalianrye), 也是方形, 特別沉重, 一磅只有三四吋長.

美國常見的只有一種德國黑麵包還好 ...... 一磅只有三四吋長.

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面積公式


三角形面積公式, 底乘高除以二. 人盡皆知.

今天犬兒說, 老師問他, 何以公式中, 會出現「除以二」. 犬兒說, 因為兩個等同 (全等) 的三角形合起來, 可以組成一個平行四邊形. 已知平行四邊形的面積為底乘高, 故求三角形面積, 底乘高後要除以二.

老師不滿意.

犬兒這個推理不錯, 幾乎正確, 卻有一個漏洞, 不夠周全. 我們可以舉出一個反例, 說法的結構相同, 結論卻相反.

兩個等同的正方形合起來, 可以組成一個長方形. 但正方形的面積, 為底乘高 (或長乘濶), 卻不必除以二.

兩個說法的結構完全相同, 為何一個須除以二, 另一個不必?

關鍵在於, 名同實異.

組合過程中, 所謂的高與底, 前者守恆, 後者改變了. 正方形的例子, 組合後, 底 (或高) 變成兩倍. 底乘以二, 面積取其半, 效用抵消. 因此正方形公式, 沒有除以二.

所以犬兒的說法, 必須點出「組合後的圖形, 高與底與原來相同」, 公式中出現除以二的結論, 方才成立.

Shortened


HM Schey: Div, grad, curl, and all that.
3e. 1997.


p.32, Using Gauss' Law to Find the Field:

Having rejected the two expressions for E [Equations (1-4) and (1-7)], we find that the only candidate left for providing us with a good general method for calculating the field is Gauss' law.

At first glance it does not appear to be a very likely candidate because, unlike Equations (1-4) and (1-7), it is not an explicit expression for E. That is, it does not say' 'E equals something." Rather, it says "The flux of E (the surface integral ofthe normal component of E) equals something."

Thus, to use Gauss' law, we must "disentangle" E from its surroundings. Despite this, there are situations in which Gauss' law can be used to find the field as an example will now show.


Having rejected the two expressions for E [Equations (1-4) and (1-7)], we find that the only candidate left for is Gauss' law.

At first glance it does not appear to be very likely because it does not say "E equals something." Rather, it says "The flux of E equals something."

Thus, to use Gauss' law, we must "disentangle" E from its surroundings, as an example will now show.

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Shortened version by AI (POE: Assistant):

Gauss' law is the only candidate left for a good general method to calculate the electric field, despite not being an explicit expression for E.

While Gauss' law does not directly state "E equals something," it relates the flux of E to something else. To use Gauss' law, we must "disentangle" E from its surroundings.

Despite this challenge, there are situations where Gauss' law can be used to find the electric field, as the following example will demonstrate.

In Hemingway style:
Now, Gauss' law is the only way left to find the electric field in general. At first, it doesn't look promising because it doesn't just say "E equals this." It talks about the flux of E, not E itself. To use it, you have to pull E out of everything around it.

This is tough, but there are times when Gauss' law can get you the electric field. An example is coming up.

HKPL


摩訶婆羅多的故事 : 印度神話學家帶你讀懂經典史詩 = Jaya : an illustrated retelling of the Mahabharata / 德杜特.帕塔納克(Devdutt Pattanaik)著 ; 余淑慧譯.
中央 C01 / 鰂魚涌 H18
880 1033

不焦慮的幾何 : 孩子怎麼學 家長怎麼教 / 賊義著 ; 杜仁杰繪.
鰂魚涌 H18
316 7380

濟慈


John Keats
余光中譯


亮星啊,願我能如你堅定,
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art---
不是孤光高耀在夜空,
永不閉目,像造化的大隱,
耐心而無眠,看
海波流動
神父一般在主持洗禮,
要滌清下界人間的海岸;
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,

不是俯望新飄落的面具,
降雪籠罩著山頂與荒原;
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors---

都不是——只求穩定又堅貞,
能枕著俏情人成熟的胸脯,
永遠感受她溫柔的起伏,
在甜蜜的不安中長保清醒,
不斷,不斷聽她輕輕地噓息,
就此享永生——不然就暈斃。
No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever---or else swoon to death.


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名氣 On Frame

向她深深鞠躬吧,然後告退,
若然她在乎,自會來追隨。

花前月下對酒當歌


唐寅, 花月吟, 十一首之一

有花無月恨茫茫,
有月無花恨轉長,
花美似人臨月鏡,
月明如水照花香,
扶筇月下尋花步,
攜酒花前帶月嘗,
如此花好如此月,
莫將花月作尋常。

(梁羽生, 名聯觀止. #286, p.391)

數學教育


教育是啟發, 或者說, 是指點出注意力應該放到何處, 從而令人領會出/感受到背後的規律.

看了今年的 DSE 數學卷和 youtube 一些老兄的題解, 不免令我很想寫出自己的看法: 鍛鍊應該鍛鍊甚麼? 審察應該審察何處?

做練習, 對每一題, 皆應該既能 hacking (認出特例或 degenerated case), 亦能正經解, 處理一般情況.