The Bohemian GirlThe transcontinental express swung along the windings of theSand River Valley, and in the rear seat of the observation car ayoung man sat greatly at his ease, not in the least discomfited bythe fierce sunlight which beat in upon his brown face and neck andstrong back. There was a look of relaxation and of great passivityabout his broad shoulders, which seemed almost too heavy until hestood up and squared them. He wore a pale flannel shirt and a blue...
《铁帅》作者:笛子梧桐--正文 序章 铁帅归来深夜,喧嚣的城市安静了下来,偶尔急驶而过的汽车陪伴着城市的夜色,恰到好处地昭示着现代文明之昌盛。城市道路宽阔而整洁,两旁高擎的路灯让夜的黑暗失去威力,桔黄色的迷蒙增添着抵挡不住的诱惑,五颜六色的霓虹灯不知疲倦地闪烁着。2005年1月5日,这样的夜晚与往日并没有太大的差别,但是这一天对于解放军上海蓝鲸医院是一个值得庆祝与纪念的日子。23时10分,20辆军车从蓝鲸医院列队开出,由二环路进入江滨大道,直驶上海国际机场。40分钟后,车队抵达机场,一位上校军官从第一辆车健步下来,走到值班站点,与值班人员简单交谈几句,同时从外衣口袋拿出机场特别通行证。立即,路中央的栏杆升起,车队缓慢开进停机坪。...
我小时候,身边最多的不是物质,而是人,多大的小孩都能找到与他同龄的朋友,一堆堆的小孩滚在一起玩耍。小孩子很擅长摹仿大人,竞争、娱乐、打斗、和平相处,家里的房间多是狭小逼仄的,因此,大家都必须到外面去,外面只有人,拉帮结伙。首先,我得找到我那一伙,其次,我还得与那伙人一同合作,分享痛苦、麻烦、语言、激情与梦想。每一天,在每一个孩子身上发生的事儿是单调乏味的,但几个乃至十几个小孩在一起,就总有一些新鲜事发生。当然也不是每一天都发生,谁的父母打谁了,谁的奶奶病了,谁家与另一家闹矛盾了,可以说,你必须有点无私,才能在这个空间生存下去,并获得乐趣。当然,除被欺负以外,小孩们在一起,总能找到乐趣,也许因为运气,这种日子过得日久天长,小学、初中、高中、大学毕业,让我知道了很多人群中的故事。...
The Last of the Plainsmenby Zane GreyPREFATORY NOTEBuffalo Jones needs no introduction to American sportsmen, but to these of my readers who are unacquainted with him a few words may not be amiss.He was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life to the pursuit of wild animals. It has been a pursuit which owed its unflagging energy and indomitable purpose to a singular passion, almost an obsession, to capture alive, not to kill. He has caught
天涯从此寂寞chapter 22 上大学一个月后,连晓风就失恋了,他的女朋友夏度莲被校学生会的主席江玉锋抢了。连晓风当时那个气啊,就想去找情敌火拼了,但是当我们几个找到江玉锋时就软了,只好安慰连晓风说:“算了吧,你又没有人家那么帅。”他低下郁闷的头。 连晓风失恋后的那段日子,每晚都拉我去学校门口的五山酒吧买醉。每次喝到差不多,几乎总是带着哭腔说:“你知道她以前对我多好吗?有次我踢球摔折了骨,是她背我去校医院,哥们都说我比她重背不得,她却说非背不可,那次我在她的背上流了泪,我说我这一辈子都一定要好好待她。高中那段时间啊,我们是校园版的神雕侠侣啊,她怎么这么快就变了心?”最后他带着几分醉意伏在我的肩上哭了。 我不知所措,心里暗怨夏度莲,女孩子啊,你也应该考虑一下我们男生的感受啊,那么多年的感情怎么能象换鞋子那样想换就换呢。 我只得拍拍他的肩头说:“一切会好的,时间会改变一切的。我早说女人也...
┌───────┐└───────┘《手机》作者:刘震云刘震云谈《手机》:拧巴的世界变坦了的心 为什么我眼中常含着泪水,是因为这玩笑开得过分。 ——刘震云作品题记 当然让人期待。曾经的当代文学“新写实”重镇,虽然他自己对此有些怪话出来:“我们糊里糊涂地就被戴上了‘新写实’的帽子,就像傍晚时分,一个中年妇女的售货员把一堆不同的菜搭配在一起,迅速而廉价地卖给了顾客,而不管这些菜是否乐意。”但他上世纪80年代中至90年代初的一大批创作,依然让他无可争议地作为这一大文学思潮的当然代表被写入中国文学史。然后他沉到水底,直至1998年捧出《故乡面和花朵》“巨型蛋糕”———4卷,200万字,写了8年,8年啊。全世界都晕菜了,然后变得安静。连评论界都谨言慎行,大家围着它转圈儿端详,但都喏喏不敢轻易发声。再过3年,2001年《一腔废话》再出,媒体上声音多了些,但望去风光大抵相同,刘震云用力解释...
The Vicar of Toursby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo David, Sculptor:The permanence of the work on which I inscribe your nametwice made illustrious in this centuryis very problematical;whereas you have graven mine in bronze which survives nationsif only in their coins. The day may come when numismatists,discovering amid the ashes of Paris existences perpetuated byyou, will wonder at the number of heads crowned in your...
THE LITTLE GREEN FROG[8][8] Cabinet des Fees.In a part of the world whose name I forget lived once upon a timetwo kings, called Peridor and Diamantino. They were cousins aswell as neighbours, and both were under the protection of thefairies; though it is only fair to say that the fairies did notlove them half so well as their wives did.Now it often happens that as princes can generally manage to gettheir own way it is harder for them to be good than it is for...
EUMENESReigned 197-160? B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenDURIS reports that Eumenes, the Cardian, was the son of a poorwagoner in the Thracian Chersonesus, yet liberally educated, both as ascholar and a soldier; and that while he was but young, Philip,passing through Cardia, diverted himself with a sight of the wrestlingmatches and other exercises of the youth of that place, among whom...
Droll Stories [V. 3]by Honore de BalzacCOLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINEVOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALESCONTENTSTHE THIRD TEN TALESPROLOGUEPERSEVERANCE IN LOVECONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGSABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAYBERTHA THE PENITENTHOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGEIN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE...
The Hispanic Nations of the New World, A Chronicle of our Southern Neighborsby William R. ShepherdCONTENTSI. THE HERITAGE FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGALII. "OUR OLD KING OR NONE"III. "INDEPENDENCE OR DEATH"IV. PLOUGHING THE SEAV. THE AGE OF THE DICTATORSVI. PERIL FROM ABROADVII. GREATER STATES AND LESSERVIII. "ON THE MARGIN OF INTERNATIONAL LIFE"IX. THE REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AMERICAX. MEXICO IN REVOLUTIONXI. THE REPUBLICS OF THE CARIBBEAN...