当午后的最后一抹云霞倾洒在广西那略带阴沉的天空上方时,我在那艘有些破旧的游船上欣赏着漓江两岸的风光。当我踏上船的那一刹那,我的灵魂已经有了一种在整个世界里飞翔起来的错觉。天空的云彩显示出了一种臃肿的堆积,在那里久久不肯散去。于是我在船舱里和那些出版界的朋友高谈阔论,尝鲜品茶。然后在那慵懒的靠椅上望着窗外缓缓向后移动的风景,码头渐渐离去,远处一些模模糊糊的船只也悄然远行。于是,我们这只老旧的游艇就在有些狭窄的水道里缓缓前行。当离开那有些做作的城区时,一切表示现代化的东西都逐渐消逝。天空上似乎无故平添了许多灿烂的湛蓝,眼前原本不甚了然的一切都变得清晰无比。于是原本在舱内的许多游客都纷纷跑到船舱的顶层,或是拍照留念,或是看一些平日里期待已久的风景。...
Hard Cashby Charles ReadePREFACE"HARD CASH," like "The Cloister and the Hearth," is a matter-of-fact Romancethat is, a fiction built on truths; and these truths have been gathered by long, severe, systematic labour, from a multitude of volumes, pamphlets, journals, reports, blue-books, manuscript narratives, letters, and living people, whom I have sought out, examined, and cross-examined, to get at the truth on each main topic I have striven to handle.The madhouse scenes have been picked out by
The Duchesse de Langeaisby Honore de BalzacTHE DUCHESS OF LANGEAISIIn a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true.Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Europe for that matter, was either destroyed or disorganised b
A Discourse of Coin and Coinageby Rice Vaughan1675A Discourse of Coin and Coinage: The first Invention, Use,Matter, Forms, Proportions and Differences, ancient & modern:with the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Rise and Fallthereof, in our own or Neighbouring Nations: and the Reasons.Together with a short Account of our Common Law therein.by Rice Vaughan, late of Grayes-Inn, Esq;London, Printed by Th. Dawks, for Th. Basset, at the George, nearCliffords-Inn, in Fleet-street. 1675....
-BBS.4020-一统后传之血战台海 第一章 顽劣太子 黄帝十一年。 庄严肃穆的建业皇宫东院的一个小房间里,门缝中飘出来本不应在此出现的袅袅清烟。 “哇,好了,着了着了,取水来……支锅支锅,笨!那个铁盔便是锅,拿过来!”年仅十二岁的太子方瑜压低声音叫嚷着,一边伸手敲着旁边一个少年的头:“我父皇说你爷爷是天下最聪明的人,怎么你这么笨!”被敲打的少年皮肤白皙,文弱清雅,正是诸葛亮的长房嫡孙诸葛尚——他一边捂着头,一边奋力吹火,可惜那火就是不旺,还弄的满屋浓烟。 屋里象军士野战一般生了堆火,把地砖熏的漆黑,火上吊着一个铁盔,盔里盛着一汪子水,里面搁着三根硕大的人参。火堆旁围着五个少年,除了方瑜和诸葛尚以外,还有关羽的孙子关兴的儿子关统、陆逊的长子陆抗、凌统的儿子凌烈。...
(历史在这里哭泣系列之六) 当十九世纪中期英国用坚船利炮打开中国封建社会的封闭大门时,中国人惊讶地发现这个世界上还有比中国更强大的国家,同时更让中国人惊愕不已的是这个国家的王位竟然可以由女儿继承,女王逝世后,再由女王的子女继承。这种改姓乱统的现象,使一向提倡忠于一姓,提倡宗法正统的儒家系统知识分子坚定地认为英国是民智未开无父无君不知礼义廉耻仁义道德为何物的蛮夷之邦。在中国,女人当皇帝是不可思议的,在五千年的文明史中只出过武则天一个女皇帝,且她的皇位是从男人手中窃取的,是不合法的,武则天也因此被后世的中国人描述成淫乱朝纲人伦丧尽的女魔王,比丧家灭国的秦二世赢胡亥和隋炀帝杨广还要邪恶一千倍。...
The Jacket (Star-Rover)by Jack LondonCHAPTER IAll my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. Ihave been aware of other persons in me.Oh, and trust me, so haveyou, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, andthis sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as anexperience of your childhood. You were then not fixed, notcrystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and...