《人是太空人的试验品》作者:李卫东序言生命的起源向来被视为第一科学谜案,人类迄今为止几乎所有的科学探索都是围绕这一命题展开的。你是谁,你从哪里来,又到哪里去?五千年的人类文明史,人类辛辛苦苦构建了 - 自己的 - 知识大厦。在这座大厦里,人们贪婪地填充数不清的学说和定理。人们把这些学说、定理粘合起来,试图建造一座人类的通天塔。人们自豪他说,这是科学的进步。在这个 - 庞大完美的科学体系 - 中,人类生命的起源就成了某些人导演的一部动画片:瞧,六十万年前开始的旧石器时代;瞧;一万年前开始的新石器时代……猿猴在 - 导演 - 的指挥棒下,一次次拔掉身上的兽毛,去掉了尾巴伸直了腿,终于 - 变 - 成了人。...
A Mountain EuropaBy John Fox, Jr.TO JAMES LANE ALLENIAs Clayton rose to his feet in the still air, the tree-tops began to tremble in the gap below him, and a rippling ran through the leaves up the mountain-side. Drawing off his hat he stretched out his arms to meet it, and his eyes closed as the cool wind struck his throat and face and lifted the hair from his forehead. About him the mountains lay like a tumultuous sea-the Jellico Spur, stilled gradually on every side into vague, purple shapes
CAIUS MARIUS155?-86 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenWE are altogether ignorant of any third name of Caius Marius; asalso of Quintus Sertorius, that possessed himself of Spain or ofLucius Mummius that destroyed Corinth, though this last was surnamedAchaicus from his conquests, as Scipio was called Africanus, andMetellus, Macedonicus. Hence Posidonius draws his chief argument to...
Little Travels and Roadside Sketchesby William Makepeace ThackerayI. FROM RICHMOND IN SURREY TO BRUSSELS IN BELGIUMII. GHENTBRUGES:Ghent (1840)BrugesIII. WATERLOOLITTLE TRAVELS AND ROADSIDE SKETCHESI.FROM RICHMOND IN SURREY TO BRUSSELS IN BELGIUM. . . I quitted the "Rose Cottage Hotel" at Richmond, one of thecomfortablest, quietest, cheapest, neatest little inns in England,...
The Dominion of the Airby J. M. BaconCHAPTER I. THE DAWN OF AERONAUTICS."He that would learn to fly must be brought up to the constant practice of it from his youth, trying first only to use his wings as a tame goose will do, so by degrees learning to rise higher till he attain unto skill and confidence."So wrote Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, who was reckoned a man of genius and learning in the days of the Commonwealth. But so soon as we come to inquire into the matter we find that this good Bi
80年代初,北方的城市,面对着10多岁那种蓬勃的青春,那里的萧瑟,太让人沮丧。 我就是那些孩子中的一个。长大后终于可以离开家,辗转于国内的大城市,以及国际的大都市,有时会很惊讶在人家繁华似锦的80年代,我们的青春却阻塞在与青春痘的奋斗中,不是不惆怅的。好在—— 好在有那么一些事情可以幻想。 那时候,电影院里上演着一部电影,叫做《鼓手》。我和少年伙伴安偶然溜进去,看到银幕上的人和生活,看到银幕上秀美的张国荣,怔住了。 银幕上的张国荣,就是片名中的鼓手,第一主角,影片大约的意思是说他为了实现买套架子鼓做鼓手的想法,克服重重困难终于如愿以偿,其中当然少不了单纯的初恋。(时隔久远,不知内容是否准确,记忆有时会自动删减和混淆往事,不是我所能做的。)...
五百万年前,地球上还没有人类的足迹,洁净的天空中自由地飞翔着千姿百态的鸟儿,清澈的河水里神游着形态各异的鱼儿,大地上覆盖着茂密的原始森林.处处山青水秀,遍地琪花瑶草,各类珍禽异兽来去自由,相互间不复疑惧!一天,湛蓝的天空中突然出现了若干个银色的盘状飞行物,随后徐徐地降临了大地.只见从缓缓洞开的飞行物拱形门里,走出了一群其外形与现代人类极为相似的生物.他们来自 于遥远的外太空,是一批高度智慧的外太空生命.但是,他们只在地球上进行了短暂的停留,然后便匆匆离去了.没有人知道地球上曾经接待过多少批这样的外太空使者!没有人知道这些使者从哪里来,又到哪里去了!因为漫漫岁月已将他们的痕迹擦得干干净净.幸好,这批外太空生命在地球上留下的东西,被五百万年后的人们偶然地发现了.由此,我们终于窥视到他们冰山的一角!也许我们透过这冰山的一角,还能联想到其他更多的东西!...
TWICE-TOLD TALESTHE BIRTHMARKby Nathaniel HawthorneIN THE LATTER PART of the last century, there lived a man ofscience- an eminent proficient in every branch of naturalphilosophy- who, not long before our story opens, had madeexperience of a spiritual affinity, more attractive than anychemical one. He had left his laboratory to the care of anassistant, cleared his fine countenance from the furnace-smoke, washed...
Main Street and Other Poemsby Joyce KilmerTo Mrs. Edmund LeamyContentsMain StreetRoofsThe Snowman in the YardA Blue ValentineHousesIn MemoryApologyThe Proud PoetLionel JohnsonFather Gerard Hopkins, S. J.Gates and DoorsThe Robe of ChristThe Singing GirlThe AnnunciationRosesThe VisitationMultiplicationThanksgivingThe ThornThe Big TopQueen Elizabeth Speaks...
The Silverado Squattersby Robert Louis StevensonTHE scene of this little book is on a high mountain. Thereare, indeed, many higher; there are many of a nobler outline.It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter;but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soonbecomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont Blanc of onesection of the Californian Coast Range, none of its nearneighbours rising to one-half its altitude. It looks down on...