Man of Propertyby John GalsworthyTO MY WIFE: I DEDICATE THE FORSYTE SAGA IN ITS ENTIRETY, BELIEVING IT TO BE OF ALL MY WORKS THE LEAST UNWORTHY OF ONE WITHOUT WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT, SYMPATHY AND CRITICISM COULD NEVER HAVE BECOME EVEN SUCH A WRITER AS I AM.PREFACE:"The Forsyte Saga" was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called "The Man of Property"; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us.
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...
这几年,经常有人托我为他们的书写序。有朋友便调侃,作家开始替别人写序了,多半是自己写不出东西了。我其实是有苦难言。我自己曾说,作家开始谈人生了,只怕是穷途末路了。不料自己在朋友的怂恿下,出版这部书,也谈起所谓的人生来,打了自己的嘴巴。全书五个部分:第一部分涉及我从童年到中年的经历,没有什么大事,但是说到的都是铭心刻骨的;第二部分偏重我的尘世见闻,同样没有什么大事,琐碎得有些无聊,但很多人的热血和激情正是在这种熟视无睹的琐碎中被消磨掉了;第三部分谈人类精神对肉体的背叛,这是我的某些胡思乱想,离现实生活远些,不感兴趣的读者可以跳过去不看;第四部分是文学话题,不是学术研究,只是自己文字生涯的孔见;第五部分纯粹是聊天,我的日常生活,包括读书、喝茶、写作习惯、生活习性等等,也谈男人和女人。...
其实在敌后活动真的不是很惬意的事情,因为你不知道哪里就给你安排监视哨或者干脆给你拿地雷阵布上。尤其是现代战争中这种情况更不好办,山地丛林我要是安排不了那么多独立的监视哨,就给你空投各种各样的警报器,各种都有,你一过那边就呜呜叫;不能工兵人力布雷就给你飞机满天撒,反正我不会去的地方是个空挡就给你先撒上再说,在这种亚热带山地丛林落叶是层层叠叠的,撒上地雷尤其是各种小型的地雷你还真不容易看出来,根本就不用埋下去就行,都是暗绿色或者迷彩色,科学技术再一发达就给你越来越小型化。也就是说我们在蓝军后方的丛林山地活动的危险性还是很高很高的。虽然不会有真地雷,但是给你冒烟一下子也是不得了的事情,快速反应的专门反渗透的部队马上就能搜山——那时候跑得出去跑不出去真的不是别的,就是命啊!所以我们前进的速度不会很快,当然也不会很慢,一切都看情况而定。...
献给每一个中国人性是任何事物也无法熄灭的长明之火。我们应该像摩西那样,扔掉鞋,赤着双足,去探索这不可思议的火焰。——英国现代性学先驱霭理士为什么只有人的乳房是隆起来的?为什么男人的生殖器官一直在体外而不缩进去呢?为什么女人的生殖器官不在体外而缩入体内呢?为什么只有人类的女性有处女膜?为什么其它动物都有发情期,而只有人类没有发情期?徐兆寿:谈到人类的性,还得涉及到人类的产生。谈到人类的产生,就不能不谈到进化论。这是现代人的一种思维模式。很多人包括我在内对这一源渊总是充满了怀疑。近代以来,很大一部分人都接受了达尔文的近化论和科学主义观念,认为自己的祖先是猴子。中国的上一代人和上上一代人也持这种观念,不过,在此之前的中国人是另一种观念,我们这一代人在这一点似乎是模糊的,但很显然,绝大部分人在骨子里是持此观点的。我是少数怀疑者之一。我也断断续续用了十几年时间看了大量的书...
TALES FROM TWO HEMISPHERES.TALES FROM TWOHEMISPHERES.BY HJALMAR HJORTH BOYSEN.THE MAN WHO LOST HISNAME.ION the second day of June, 186, a young Norseman, Halfdan Bjerkby name, landed on the pier at Castle Garden. He passed through thestraight and narrow gate where he was asked his name, birthplace, and...
今年5月10日从文离开人世,我得到他夫人张兆和的电报后想起许多事情,总觉得他还同我在一起,或者聊天,或者辩论。他那温和的笑容一直在我眼前。隔一天我才发出回电:“病中惊悉从文逝世,十分悲痛。文艺界失去一位杰出的作家,我失去一位正直善良的朋友,他留下的精神财富不会消失。我们三十、四十年代相聚的情景还历历在目。小林因事赴京,她将代我在亡友灵前敬献花圈,表达我感激之情。我永远忘不了你们一家。请保重。”都是些极普通的话。没有一滴眼泪,悲痛却在我的心里,我也在埋葬自己的一部分。那些充满信心的欢聚的日子,那些奋笔和辩论的日子都不会回来了。这些年我们先后遭逢了不同的灾祸,在泥泞中挣扎,他改了行,在长时间的沉默中,取得卓越的成就。我东奔西跑,唯唯诺诺,羡慕枝头欢叫的喜鹊,只想早日走尽自我改造的道路。得到的却是十年一梦,床头多了一盒骨灰。现在大梦初醒,却仿佛用尽全身力气,不得不躺倒休息...
Zanoniby Edward Bulwer LyttonDEDICATORY EPISTLEFirst prefixed to the Edition of 1845TOJOHN GIBSON, R.A., SCULPTOR.In looking round the wide and luminous circle of our great livingEnglishmen, to select one to whom I might fitly dedicate thiswork,one who, in his life as in his genius, might illustratethe principle I have sought to convey; elevated by the idealwhich he exalts, and serenely dwelling in a glorious existence...
20世纪80年代在现代中国社会和思想发展史上是一个特别的时期,占有重要的位置。这个时期承担了“革命”与“改良”的双重任务。一方面,整体社会心态的激进程度并不亚于前此的几十年,“批判”仍然是社会人文研究的基本特征。记得上大学本科时,我们一帮七七、七八级(两届其实只差半年)的老学生,整天不停地读书、提问、辩论,为刘少奇、彭德怀和张志新等鸣不平,为中国改革开放的政策欢呼跳跃、摇旗呐喊。在米歇尔·福柯(Michel Foucault)1976年法兰西学院授课,分析“革命话语”(revolutionary discourse)的十年之后,①我们竟连做梦也没有想过还有所谓支配思想的“话语”体系的存在!于是,那时总体上说,是在“旧话语”的系统中开拓着“新局面”。所以,在无意识中,道德的勇气比缜密的分析显得更加有意义,并具有天然的价值优势。与这种精神气质(ethos)一脉相承,在...
THE GRATEFUL BEASTS[11][11] From the Hungarian. Kletke.There was once upon a time a man and woman who had threefine-looking sons, but they were so poor that they had hardlyenough food for themselves, let alone their children. So thesons determined to set out into the world and to try their luck.Before starting their mother gave them each a loaf of bread andher blessing, and having taken a tender farewell of her and theirfather the three set forth on their travels....
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE CARDBOARD BOXby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkablemental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, asfar as possible, to select those which presented the minimum ofsensationalism, while offering a fair field for his talents. It is,however, unfortunately impossible entirely to separate the sensational...