《纽扣杀人案》之番外,《一号歹徒》作者:鬼马星2008年3月5日岳程静静地注视着眼前的这个男人,不敢相信这个文质彬彬,眼神温柔,头发已经全白的四十岁男人是曾经杀死过7名妇女的连环杀手。他手头的卷宗里有这个杀人犯的名字——陆劲,原纽扣收藏家俱乐部成员,5年前,因为炮制“人血纽扣”连续杀死7人。2004年1月5日,陆劲被判死刑立即执行,但不知什么缘故,当时这个判决被临时接到的一道命令拖延了,24小时后,他的刑期被改判为死缓,两年后,他的刑期又被改判为无期徒刑,按理说,他这辈子都该老死在监狱里了,但据岳程所知,此人现在每个月有两天时间可以自由外出。杀了7个人的杀人犯,被捕4年后不仅仍然活着,而且竟然还被允许有部分的行动自由,岳程起初听说此事时,觉得非常吃惊,也难以接受,但自从他接手现在这件案子后,他很快就明白了此人对局里意味着什么。...
《幽灵信箱》 总序序幕(1)电子邮箱提示:你有一封未读邮件。谁发来的?打开看看-邮件名:往事那天晚上发生的事让我害怕。夜很黑,我们走过一座石桥后就迷了路。以前在城市里从没感受过真正的黑夜,所谓伸手不见五指,这只有在乡村的月黑天才能体会到。我忘记了我们为什么走入这黑夜中。我们要去哪里?天堂或者地狱,我都不在乎。从小父母总认为我是一个胆小的丫头,可身处这个黑夜我却什么也不怕了。天地万物都已隐去,只有我们,仿佛是从史前走来的两个人,相知相伴,踩着原始部落的鼓点前行-那是我们的心跳。黑色的矮树丛前方像有人蹲着,你挥臂甩出小石头,但却听不见石头落地发出的声音。乡村的大地芳香柔软,漆黑中我的鼻孔里充满草香和水腥味。从小梦想过做仙女或者公主,可是今夜我却成了一个巫女,你说和我走在一起时有眩晕的感觉,我的身上真的散发出什么东西了吗?...
Honore de Balzacby Albert Keim and Louis LumetTranslated from the French by FREDERIC TABER COOPERGENERAL NOTEOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice.Even one who confines his reading solely to biographies of thinkers, writers, inventors, poets of the spirit or poets of science, will in a short time have acquired an understa
Epilogue IChapter 1SEVEN YEARS had passed by. The storm-tossed, historic ocean of Europe was subsiding within its shores. It seemed to have grown calm; but the mysterious forces moving humanity (mysterious, because the laws controlling their action are unknown to us) were still at work.Although the surface of the ocean of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity was as uninterrupted as the flow of time. Various series of groups of men were joining together and separating; the causes
PHOCION402?-317 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenDEMADES, the orator, when in the height of the power which heobtained at Athens, by advising the state in the interest of Antipaterand the Macedonians, being necessitated to write and speak many thingsbelow the dignity, and contrary to the character, of the city, waswont to excuse himself by saying he steered only the shipwrecks of the...
Phantasmagoria and Other PoemsPHANTASMAGORIACANTO I - The TrystyngONE winter night, at half-past nine,Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,I had come home, too late to dine,And supper, with cigars and wine,Was waiting in the study.There was a strangeness in the room,And Something white and wavyWas standing near me in the gloom -I took it for the carpet-broomLeft by that careless slavey.But presently the Thing began...
Lectures on the History of Philosophyby G W F Hegel (1805-6)Translated by E S Haldane (1892-6)Inaugural AddressPrefatory NoteIntroductionA. Notion of the History of Philosophy1. Common Ideas regarding the History of Philosophya. The History of Philosophy as an accumulation of Opinionsb. Proof of futility of Philosophical Knowledge obtained through History of Philosophyitself...
TWICE-TOLD TALESTHE GREAT STONE FACEby Nathaniel HawthorneONE AFTERNOON, When the sun was going down, a mother and her littleboy sat at the door of their cottage, talking about the Great StoneFace. They had but to lift their eyes, and there it was plainly tobe seen, though miles away, with the sunshine brightening all itsfeatures.And what was the Great Stone Face?Embosomed amongst a family of lofty mountains, there was a valley...