The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprenticesby Charles DickensCHAPTER IIn the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven,wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhaustedby the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought withit, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highlymeritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute,though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in...
附:【本作品来自互联网,本人不做任何负责】内容版权归作者所有!风从指间掠过伟大的雕塑家罗丹在写给德国女作家埃莱娜。德。诺斯兹的一封情信上说:“由于你的温雅和聪颖,我重又变得高雅,整个人都得到深化了。既然种子落进肥沃的土地,那么只要好好照料,它总会发芽结实的。一切东西都会消逝,于此我只能听天由命。但我在心里看见大自然随岁月流逝,风情万千地从我眼前掠过,不由得也对镜中衰老的自己感慨良久。我还在爱,还在理解,还没有变得驽钝……”是的,爱情可以净化一个人,也可以使之变得复杂。我心里只有你,心无旁骛,我变得单纯,从而爱惜身边的万物,只想每一对情人都幸福和长久。我唯一追求的,就是跟你厮守终生。种子已经落在肥沃的土地上,我们会种出属于两个人的果实。我是如此简单,只要看到你,我就会微笑。我的身体和我的心,都变干干净净。...
不久前,我们在一个电台谈话节目中讨论60年代的激进主义运动者。主持人问了这样一个问题:60年代最具有代表性的事件是什么?这个问题引出了几个不同的答案,包括“言论自由运动”、“五角大楼的三月”和“芝加哥事件”等。好在我们事先谈论过这个问题,大家一致同意,对于那个时代来说重要的是一些细节,而不是一些重大事件。我们告诉主持人,1969年夏季曾发生过这样一件小事。在那个变化莫测的时代,革命是所有人关注的热点。汤姆·海登是当时的一位运动领袖,正在芝加哥面临着谋反的指控,他号召在美国的城市中建立“解放区”。“气象员”组织当时控制着“学生民主社会”,计划在年底开展游击战。但是,大部分激进分子的注意力集中在“黑人黑豹党”上,海登称该党为“美国的越共”。...
The Diary of a Goose GirlThe Diary of a GooseGirlby Kate Douglas Wiggin1- Page 2-The Diary of a Goose GirlTHORNYCROFT FARM, nearBarbury Green, July 1, 190-.In alluding to myself as a Goose Girl, I am using only the most modestof my titles; for I am also a poultry-maid, a tender of Belgian hares and...
二十五年前,我的孙子于连还是个孩子,那时他经常与我和妻子一起度假。我们之间形成了一个像洗漱和吃饭一样不能更改的规矩:每天晚上,于连上床的时候,从他的卧室里都会传来呼喊:“爷爷,故事!故事!”那喊声中经常透出几分急不可耐。这时我就会坐在他的床头,讲一段古希腊传说给他听。当时,为了深入理解希腊神话,我正在对之进行分析、解构、比较、阐释等研究工作,所以不必太费力气就可以在我的百宝囊里找到材料。但是我给他讲故事用的方法与现在不同,那是开门见山、顺其自然,就像讲仙女故事一样,只需在讲述中注意让故事自始至终都能扣人心弦即可:很久很久以前……于连听得津津有味,我也讲得兴趣盎然。能够亲口给他讲一讲自己钟爱的希腊世界,这使我感到欣慰,因为我觉得,在今天,这一古老世界在我们身上的继续存在比任何时候都显得更为必要。我也欣喜于这一遗产能口头地,用讲述那些被柏拉图称为“奶水故事”的方式,...
ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCEI heartily accept the motto, "That government is best whichgoverns least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidlyand systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, whichalso I believe, "That government is best which governs not atall"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind ofgovernment which they will have. Government is at best but anexpedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are...
第一章 剑门谁牵碧玉骢七月烟雨,是李清愁荷锄采药的时候。眉州知府吴承辅觉得每天都是好日子。每天都有人送钱来,当然就都是好日子。他花了整整十万两买来的知府,做了三年,就赚回来了不知多少个十万两,比他在扬州做盐商好多了。川中繁华,本就不逊于扬州,何况吴承辅又是个风雅的人。风雅是个奇怪的东西。别人吃饭,他也吃饭,别人看风景,他也看风景,这本是很俗的事情,但风雅之人就不同,他自然能将这些俗事做得与众不同,然后就风雅无比。连伸手要钱都风雅无比。所以吴承辅的地皮虽然搜刮得厉害,却依旧得了个清官的名号,没有人知道他家财多少,绝没人。连吴承辅自己都不知道。他已经数不清了。所以到今天他卸任的时候,他已不想再做官。他只想回到扬州的沧浪园中,载酒浮舟,度此余生。...
塞娜走着走着就走不动了,夏日的夜晚,清凉的风像冰淇淋的吻,树叶们快乐地颤抖,花儿舞蹈。这是城郊的一条小路,不远处就是一丛丛的矮房,泥土的熏染中它们像是一只只的船。塞娜看着它们,再低头看自己圆润的小腿,两根萝卜似的小腿,在黑暗中发光。那是汗水对月光的反射。耳机里的音乐声突然停住,咔的一声。电池没电了。随身听里装的是大七自己录的磁带,鼓声,电子吉他声,还有一个女人的低低的歌声。塞娜有时候会听不清楚她的声音,可是感觉上是清甜的。她想象那个女孩的样子,会不会有一双装满星星的眼睛?大七是七月打来电话的,那时候塞娜正在睡觉,家里没有人,爸爸上班去了。塞娜已经忘了那个中午做的梦,她只记得迷迷糊糊睁开眼睛时,看到太阳明亮的光线刺进起来,如蜃景的箭。电话一声一声地欢叫,塞娜没有去接,只是看着窗外发呆。可是电话没停,一直一直在响。...
在很多很多年以前,我看过法国著名导演波兰斯基的一部电影《苦月亮》,影片讲的是一对恋人因一次浪漫的邂逅而相爱,却又因过分地厮缠而相厌,直至分手的故事。故事的模式是老套的,但是看完后的心理震动是令人惊悚的。男主人公与女主人公因为一次浪漫的相遇而产生了浓厚的激情,这激情燃烧时如熊熊烈火,但是在时间的消蚀中却有如沙漏中的沙,一点点地消失殆尽却又注定无法风过无痕。因为相处的时间太长,燃烧的程度太烈,失去的时候才会更痛,更难以令人释怀。影片中,男主人公残忍地用欺骗的手段抛弃了怀孕的女主人公,而在很长时间以后,女主人公又以更残忍的手段报复了男主人公,使他终生都困在轮椅上再也不能行走。因爱生恨,因爱成仇,这种爱恨的转变之剧烈,莫过于此了。...
Lecture IXThe Primitive Forms of Legal RemediesI.I stated on a former occasion (Lecture 1. p. 8) that thebranch of law which we now call the Law of Distress occupies thegreatest part of the largest Brehon law-tract, the Senchus Mor.The importance thus given to Distress is a fact of muchsignificance, and in this and the following Lecture I propose to...
TRUSTY JOHNONCE upon a time there was an old king who was soill that he thought to himself, "I am most likely on mydeath-bed." Then he said, "Send Trusty John to me."Now Trusty John was his favorite servant, and was socalled because all his life he had served him so faithfully.When he approached the bed the King spake to him:"Most trusty John, I feel my end is drawing near, and Icould face it without a care were it not for my son. Heis still too young to decide everything for himself, and...
The Lifted Veilby George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]CHAPTER IThe time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject toattacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things,my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not beprotracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with anexceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with anexceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan underthe wearisome burthen of this earthly existence. If it were to be...
An Inland Voyageby Robert Louis StevensonPREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITIONTo equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in his preface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat