泛黄的照片里有几张面孔,他们和注视着照片的这名年轻女人之间,相隔几百年的距离。年轻女人非常喜爱这张照片。每次到祖母家去玩,她总是要祖母把这张照片拿给她看。照片里是3张孩子的面孔,他们早已逝去多年,但老古董式的相机却把久远以前的童年瞬间收进了镜头。3个孩子站着排成一列,最年长而且身材最高的孩子站在最左边,其次是身高、年龄较低的孩子,按着顺序向右排开。站在两端的男孩年龄大约是10岁和2岁。而站在正中间的女孩则大约是5岁。 每次看到这张照片,年轻女人都会感到自己和未知的过去之间有一种关系。照片里是她的曾祖母和曾祖母的两个兄弟。然而如果不知道这一点,光凭想像,却能让人联想到照片里的女孩就是正在欣赏照片的她。因为照片里的曾祖母,和她童年时代的脸庞简直相似到极点。祖母把这张脸叫做“家族的脸孔”,而她的亲戚拥有这张面孔和这双眼睛的,的确相当多。...
森林运动会袋鼠、猴子因跳的高受到狮王表扬,熊挨了批不服气地说:我明天要跳过这座桥!狮王:看你熊样还在桥啊桥的呢(你还在瞧啊!)听说今天太湖里跳出来一只癞蛤蟆被车轧死,我听了一直很担心,马上给你发短信,如果你还活着的话,请回复我!江湖上知道你武功高强,但你不能骄傲,做到人中有剑,剑中有人,人剑合一,做到了这一点,你就不再是人,是剑人!剑人!剑人!你看你,美国头,法国腰,印度鼻子,香港脚,人不人,鬼不鬼,只有一个脑袋,两条腿,你看看你,还在看着短信咧着嘴!红红的太阳蓝蓝的天,农民要看三级片,兴奋地冲进电影院,愤怒的叫喊震翻了天。村长跑来问啥事,农民说“看短信的那人不主演,打死我们也不给钱”。...
A Wagner MatineeI received one morning a letter, written in pale ink onglassy, blue-lined notepaper, and bearing the postmark of alittle Nebraska village. This communication, worn and rubbed,looking as though it had been carried for some days in a coatpocket that was none too clean, was from my Uncle Howard andinformed me that his wife had been left a small legacy by abachelor relative who had recently died, and that it would be...
THE IDLE THOUGHTSOFAN IDLE FELLOW.by JEROME K. JEROME.NEW YORK:A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.TOTHE VERY DEAR AND WELL-BELOVEDFRIENDOF MY PROSPEROUS AND EVIL DAYSTO THE FRIENDWHO, THOUGH IN THE EARLY STAGES OF OUR ACQUAINTANCESHIPDID OFTTIMES DISAGREE WITH ME, HAS SINCEBECOME TO BE MY VERY WARMEST COMRADETO THE FRIENDWHO, HOWEVER OFTEN I MAY PUT HIM OUT, NEVER (NOW)UPSETS ME IN REVENGETO THE FRIENDWHO, TREATED WITH MARKED COOLNESS BY ALL THE FEMALE...
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyriaby Theophilus G. PinchesCHAPTER IFOREWORDPosition, and Period.The religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians was the polytheistic faith professed by the peoples inhabiting the Tigris and Euphrates valleys from what may be regarded as the dawn of history until the Christian era began, or, at least, until the inhabitants were brought under the influence of Christianity. The chronological period covered may be roughly estimated at about 5000 years. The belief of
羊慧明,生于1956年,1982年毕业于复旦大学新闻系,曾任成都军区摄影干事、新华社军事记者、《经济日报》驻四川记者。现系自由作家,中国摄影家协会四川分会会员。与唐步云、马平合著有《中国的出路:改革》、《中国1992:背水之战》、《中国观念大爆炸》、《中国1993:走出混沌》、《中国记者眼中的美国》等书,即将出版的有《不鸣惊人》、《新闻的背后》等书。现兼任四川慧明智囊中心负责人。《狼市》 序破译中国股市病灶DNA(1)——策划人与作者的对话策划人:羊慧明先生,你今年年初出版的《中国房市警告》一书,在社会、学界、业界都产生了一定的影响,但在我们的印象中你过去好像从未写过关于房地产的文章,初次出手却有如此的反响,真不愧是大手笔!...
回忆录系列银色马福尔摩斯探案—回忆录 一天早晨,我们一起用早餐,福尔摩斯说道: “华生,恐怕我只好去一次了。” “去一次?!上哪儿?” “到达特穆尔,去金斯皮兰。” 我听了并不惊奇。老实说,我本来感到奇怪的是,目前在英国各地到处都在谈论着一件离奇古怪的案件,可是福尔摩斯却没有过问。他整日里紧皱双眉,低头沉思,在屋内走来走去,装上一斗又一斗的烈性烟叶,吸个没完,对我提出的问题和议论,完全置之不理。报刊经售人给我们送来当天的各种报纸,他也仅仅稍一过目就扔到一旁。然而,尽管他沉默不语,我完全清楚地知道,福尔摩斯正在仔细考虑着什么。当前,人们面前只有一个问题,迫切需要福尔摩斯的分析推论智能去解决,那就是韦塞克斯杯锦标赛中的名驹奇异的失踪和驯马师的惨死。所以,他突然声称,他打算出发去调查这件戏剧性的奇案,这不出我所料,也正中我下怀。...
LYCURGUSLegendary, 9th Century B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenThere is so much uncertainty in the accounts which historians haveleft us of Lycurgus, the lawgiver of Sparta, that scarcely anything isasserted by one of them which is not called into question orcontradicted by the rest. Their sentiments are quite different as tothe family he came of, the voyages he undertook, the place and...
我们身边的空气都弥漫着焦虑的气息…… ——一心理咨询专家 你快乐吗?这是一个简单的问题。这是一个复杂的问题。我曾就这个问题询问过许多朋友,大家的反应出奇的相似,先是一愣,然后便是神色茫然。“快乐?偶尔有,但很短暂。”一位朋友沉思良久后回答。“平时有那么多的事情让你烦心,周围的人有的买了房,有的升了职,有的出了国……这世界变化太快啦,你能不急吗?你得拼命地往前赶呐,哪儿有时间快乐呢?快乐?将来吧!” 看看吧,我们身边的许多人是不是每天都在不停地奔忙着?是不是许多人都把“忙着呢”、“烦着呢”、“真让人着急”等等的语言挂在嘴边?“这是一个焦虑的时代,所有的人都迫不及待,甚至我们身边的空气都弥漫着焦虑的气息……”一位心理咨询专家的话道出了问题的实质。...
(四)孔子眼中的“孝”-方尔加 主讲人简介: 方尔加,中国政法大学教授,北京大学兼职教授。著有《荀子新论》等专著多本,多年来一直潜心研究孔孟哲学,多年被评为学校“最受欢迎的老师”。 内容简介: 这个孝应该是我们中国最不陌生的道德了,尊重老人,尊老、爱老,这个道德也是我们中华民族最深层的道德,最普遍的道德。不管是哪个民族,不管是哪个地区,不管是什么职业,不管是哪个年龄段,人们共同认同这个道德。 孝这个道德在中国历史上源远流长,很早人们就崇尚这个道德。这个孝在卜辞里头,在最原始的文字,在卜辞里头,它的形状像什么呢?像一棵树,树上头枝繁叶茂,上头有枝叶,底下是根。你这个枝叶不管多么复杂,多么繁多。但是你都根源于一个根,你的生命力在根,你都来源于这个根,那么我们中华民族最大的祖先,最大的老,当然我们是炎黄子孙,有炎帝,有黄帝,炎黄子孙。所以孝这个道德,在...
Memoirs of Carwin the BiloquistCharles Brockden BrownChapter I.I was the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a western district of Pennsylvania. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the employment to which he was destined. His wishes never led him astray from the hay-stack and the furrow. His ideas never ranged beyond the sphere of his vision, or suggested the possibility that to-morrow could differ from to-day. He could read and write, because he had no alternativ
The Man versus the Stateby Herbert Spencer1884PrefaceThe Westminster Review for April 1860, contained an article entitled "Parliamentary Reform: the Dangers and the Safeguards." In that article I ventured to predict some results of political changes then proposed. Reduced to its simplest expression, the thesis maintained was that, unless due precautions were taken, increase of freedom in form would be followed by decrease of freedom in fact. Nothing has occurred to alter the belief I then