阴火诞生二十五岁那年春天,当时他与众多同学一道怀着忐忑的心情成了新的毕业生,得到了一顶菱形的学士帽后荣归故里。轻型的敞篷马车上镌刻着雄鹰展翅的家徽,载着这位少爷从停车场起程,沿着约有三里远的车道上疾驰而去。车轮的吱呀吱呀声,马具随风荡漾的叮当声,马车夫叱咤吆喝声以及铁蹄厚重的橐橐声,都混杂在了一起,此外还不时传来云雀清脆的啼鸣。在北国,即便到了春天都仍是冰天雪地,唯有道路都被踏成一条涩涩的黑线。田埂上的雪开始融化,覆雪的山脉蜿蜒起伏,似乎也被冻得缩成一团。山脉显出了一幅铁青色的画卷,山麓中黄色木材垛子垒在一起,旁边可以看见一间矮矮的厂房。厂房的烟囱里升起袅袅青烟,飘向晴朗的天空。这里就是他的家。这次是作为新毕业生回来,再次凝望久违的故乡风物,眼眸里透出一丝淡淡的忧郁。不知怎的,他煞有介事地轻声打了个哈欠。...
在美国以及世界上很多的国家,比尔·克林顿都是一个十分熟悉甚至亲切的名字,他之所以产生了这么大的影响,与他总统任期内作出的一系列成就有很大的关系。但世人最了解的还是他因为性丑闻案而声名狼藉却又最终获得了美国民众原谅的传奇经历,没有在丑闻案中成为千古罪人,但确实成了世人调侃的对象,这要从1998年的莱温斯基向大陪审团作证开始,从此,缠绕克林顿和希拉里的恶梦开始了。不过早在他参加总统竞选的1992年,就已经被人称为“每星期都要闹一次丑闻的总统候选人”,1998年的“莫妮卡风暴”不过是长期积累的结果。美国国会将独立检察官斯塔尔关于克林顿性丑闻案的调查报告公布在互联网上,相关站点立刻发生了交通堵塞。据统计,报告公布当天互联网访问率达每分钟32.3万人次。一时间,全世界各地好奇的人们都可以从互联网上了解克林顿绯闻案的详细情况,这着实令克林顿更加尴尬。曾几何时,克林顿为互联网的建设不懈地摇旗...
前言 一位真正的作家永远只为内心写作,只有内心才会真实地告诉他,他的自私、他的高尚是多么突出。内心让他真实地了解自己,一旦了解了自己也就了解了世界。很多年前我就明白了这个原则,可是要捍卫这个原则必须付出艰辛的劳动和长时期的痛苦,因为内心并非时时刻刻都是敞开的,它更多的时候倒是封闭起来,于是只有写作,不停地写作才能使内心敞开,才能使自己置身于发现之中,就像日出的光芒照亮了黑暗,灵感这时候才会突然来到。 长期以来,我的作品都是源出于和现实的那一层紧张关系。我沉湎于想象之中,又被现实紧紧控制,我明确感受着自我的分裂,我无法使自己变得纯粹,我曾经希望自己成为一位童话作家,要不就是一位实实在在作品的拥有者,如果我能够成为这两者中的任何一个,我想我内心的痛苦将会轻微得多,可是与此同时我的力量也会削弱很多。...
Billy and the Big Stickby Richard Harding DavisHad the Wilmot Electric Light people remained content only to makelight, had they not, as a by-product, attempted to make money, theyneed not have left Hayti.When they flooded with radiance the unpaved streets of Port-au-Prince no one, except the police, who complained that the lightskept them awake, made objection; but when for this illumination theWilmot Company demanded payment, every one up to President Hamilear...
A Book of Scoundrelsby Charles WhibleyTo the Greeks FOOLISHNESSCONTENTSINTRODUCTIONCAPTAIN HINDMOLL CUTPURSE AND JONATHAN WILDI. MOLL CUTPURSEII. JONATHAN WILDIII. A PARALLELRALPH BRISCOEGILDEROY AND SIXTEEN-STRING JACKI. GILDEROYII. SIXTEEN-STRING JACKIII. A PARALLELTHOMAS PURENEYSHEPPARD AND CARTOUCHEI. JACK SHEPPARDII. LOUIS-DOMINIQUE CARTOUCHEIII. A PARALLELVAUX...
The Naturalist on the River Amazonsby Henry Walter BatesAN APPRECIATIONBY CHARLES DARWIN Author of "The Origin of Species," etc.From Natural History Review, vol. iii. 1863.IN April, 1848, the author of the present volume left England in company with Mr. A. R. Wallace"who has since acquired wide fame in connection with the Darwinian theory of Natural Selection"on a joint expedition up the river Amazons, for the purpose of investigating the Natural History of the vast wood-region traversed by tha
Aucassin and NicoleteTranslated by Andrew LangINTRODUCTIONThere is nothing in artistic poetry quite akin to "Aucassin andNicolete."By a rare piece of good fortune the one manuscript of the Song-Storyhas escaped those waves of time, which have wrecked the bark ofMenander, and left of Sappho but a few floating fragments. The veryform of the tale is peculiar; we have nothing else from the twelfthor thirteenth century in the alternate prose and verse of the cante-...
Notes from the Undergroundby Feodor DostoevskyPART IUNDERGROUND**The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course,imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as thewriter of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist inour society, when we consider the circumstances in the midst ofwhich our society is formed. I have tried to expose to the viewof the public more distinctly than is commonly done, one of the...
Little Britainby Washington IrvingWhat I write is most true...I have a whole booke of caseslying by me which if I should sette foorth, some grave auntients(within the hearing of Bow bell) would be out of charity with me.NASHE.IN the centre of the great city of London lies a smallneighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets andcourts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goesby the name of LITTLE BRITAIN. Christ Church School and...
这些大家伙是怎么被训练出来的?看着跳跃着的虎鲸那令人惊叹的表演,3000多名观众目瞪口呆、屏息静气。这是海洋世界沙姆表演馆里的一幕情景。看台上所有人的眼睛都牢牢地盯着那些庞然大物和它们的训练师们,所以没有人注意到他们中间一个穿着蓝衬衫和卡其布裤子的男子脸上复杂的表情。每当那些鲸鱼的精彩跳跃引起观众雷鸣般的掌声和欢呼声时,这个男子的眼睛里就会闪现出惊异和兴奋的光彩,可在其他时候,他的脸却总是阴沉着,目光也似乎在茫然地注视着远方。韦斯·金斯利(WesKingsley)是到奥兰多来参加一个商务研讨会的。会议日程上安排了一些给与会者到户外放松、打高尔夫或游览当地名胜的时间,于是他决定去举世闻名的海洋世界公园看看,让自己可以暂时忘却烦恼。...
事情发生得实在太突然了,几乎就是一眨眼的工夫,一场交通血案就发生了。出事地点在省国道78公里处,也就是由省城通往边阳市岔路前一千米处的一个下坡道上,死者是边阳市的市长高中信和他的司机魏勇。据目击者说,高市长的奥迪车刚下坡时,行速很快,就在这时,前面的一辆康明斯大货车突然一个急刹车,奥迪车猝不及防,只听见“哧”的一声,小车钻进了大货车的车厢底下,随之,发生了一系列不轻不重的追尾事故。待后面车上的人下来,已经停下了一长串车。大家纷纷围过来观看,奥迪车已经被撞得稀烂,车中的两个人已被撞得血肉模糊。有人认出了奥迪车的车号是边阳市市长高中信的,就立即给边阳市打报警电话。一时间,道路拥挤,交通堵塞,名震全省的“2?23”交通大案就这么发生了。...