有人把自己去酒吧的第一次叫做“处女泡”,有人管自己的第一次喝酒叫“处女醉”,更有甚者,将自己的头一回水泳称为“处女游”……照这样的逻辑分析,我工作后的第一次值夜班,也可以和纯洁的处女拉上关系。那是一个寂静如水的夜晚。收费室的武老二照旧捧着闲书看得烟头烫到手;急诊科的高胖子依然抱着传呼机乱摁个不停直到电池预警;传染科的续小明当时正值热恋之中,放有门诊一楼唯一电视机的值班室被他紧紧关闭,门上大书“看电视者与狗不得入内。”生活如昔,一切照旧。所有的人都在习惯着自己的习惯,惟独第一次单独值班的我目光炯炯,精神抖擞,象只狼一样兴奋地满世界游走;直到120救护车尖利地刹车声在门诊口响起,瞬间还是各有所好的同事们顿时象训练有素的飞虎队一样从角落里钻出,裹夹着既兴奋又紧张的我有如雨水般地涌出……...
当《古国怪遇记》出版后,反应缤纷。因为我一直坚持非“佳评泉涌”“掌声如雷”不可的,所以,虽然出版社老板早已魂飞天外,告诉我销路不好,赔得简直要上吊啦。但我仍心硬如铁,不为所动。于是,《打翻铅字架》巨著,乃隆重出笼。 是为序。第一部分第一节 求婚记我这个人,和普通人不一样,我虽然表面上看起来很平凡,可是却有一颗非常不平凡的内心,不但脑筋灵活,而且坚毅卓绝,英勇超群。这些,你在我向张暖玉小姐求婚这件事上,可以充分地得到证明。 当我准备去张暖玉家,向她那最受人尊敬的老太爷,提出结婚请求的时候,仅在化妆上,就足足用了三个钟头。刮胡子是最麻烦的了,我恨不得刮得像根本没有胡子一样,结果,平白在颔下刮了两三条刀口,涂了一阵牙粉之后,才算定了血痂。然而最使人心乱如麻的不止这些,那个该死的理发店显然不够高级,有一根头发竟标枪似地往上直翘,我咬牙拔了去,第二根头发被带起来了,我又...
Arizona Nightsby Stewart Edward WhiteCHAPTER ONETHE OLE VIRGINIAThe ring around the sun had thickened all day long, and theturquoise blue of the Arizona sky had filmed. Storms in the drycountries are infrequent, but heavy; and this surely meant storm.We had ridden since sun-up over broad mesas, down and out ofdeep canons, along the base of the mountain in the wildestparts of the territory. The cattle were winding leisurely toward...
几年前,我完成了自传 ① 的写作,那是一次有趣却艰难的经历,是利用工作的间隙完成的。那以后,我曾发誓,再也不写书了。但我猜,自己恐怕还会写。人们第一次向我提出那样的问题是在2001~2002年,当时我正为自传的发行在世界各地做巡回宣传。看到很多人与GE有着深厚感情,我感慨万分。无论是在美国,还是在其他国家,人们告诉我许许多多关于他们在这家公司工作的故事,以及他们的姐妹、阿姨、父亲甚至祖父在这家公司做过的事情。在这些故事之外,我还非常吃惊地看到,人们是多么迫切地希望了解,如何才能把生意做好。在电话讨论会中,有人要求我介绍一下GE的业绩鉴别体系,想知道我们如何把员工的工作划分为三种业绩类型,并给予相应的奖惩。而那些参加签名售书仪式的人则希望知道,我曾说过任何公司的人力资源负责人都应该至少与首席财务官同样重要,我是否在夸大其词(其实没有,我是真心实意的)。在访问芝加哥大学商学院的时候...
《鬼魂出没》总序:一位世界性的杰出作家(1) ——从诺贝尔文学奖说起 王理行 今年是谁获诺贝尔文学奖了? ⅩⅩ国的ⅩⅩⅩⅩ。 啊?没听说过嘛!他(她)是谁? 我也不清楚。 国内出过他(她)的作品了吗? 好像没有。 进入21世纪后的每年10月上旬,有关最新诺贝尔文学奖得主的消息在瑞典一公布,在关心诺贝尔文学的人们中间,类似的对话就会不绝于耳。而且,这样的对话不仅在中国常常听到,在世界上许多国家也都很流行。 一次又一次出人意外 2003年南非作家约翰?迈克尔?库切获诺贝尔文学奖的消息曾令许多中国的文学研究者和作家大感意外,尽管此前,他的代表作《耻》已于2002年推出中文版,一些专业报刊已刊发过几篇相关评介文章,而他在欧美文坛已经享有相当高的声誉。...
Daisy Millerby Henry JamesIN TWO PARTSPART IAt the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is aparticularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels,for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place,which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edgeof a remarkably blue lakea lake that it behooves every touristto visit. The shore of the lake presents an unbroken array...
Christie JohnstoneA NOVELby Charles ReadeI dedicate all that is good in this work to my mother.C. R.,NOTETHIS story was written three years ago, and one or two topics in it arenot treated exactly as they would be if written by the same hand to-day.But if the author had retouched those pages with his colors of 1853, hewould (he thinks) have destroyed the only merit they have, viz., that ofcontaining genuine contemporaneous verdicts upon a cant that was...
Confessio AmantisorTales of the Seven Deadly SinsBy John Gower, 1330-1408 A.D.PrologusTorpor, ebes sensus, scola parua labor minimusqueCausant quo minimus ipse minora canam:Qua tamen Engisti lingua canit Insula BrutiAnglica Carmente metra iuuante loquar.Ossibus ergo carens que conterit ossa loquelisAbsit, et interpres stet procul oro malus.Of hem that writen ous toforeThe bokes duelle, and we therforeBen tawht of that was write tho:Forthi good is that we also...
On Public Creditby David HumeIt appears to have been the common practice of antiquity,make provision, during peace, for the necessities of war, and tohoard up treasures before-hand, as the instruments either ofconquest or defence; without trusting to extraordinaryimpositions, much less to borrowing, in times of disorder andconfusion. Besides the immense sums above mentioned, which wereamassed by ATHENS, and by the PTOLEMIES, and other successors ofALEXANDER; we learn from PLATO, that the frugal