"David Copperfield" By Charles Dickens
"My meaning simply is that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well . . . I have always been thoroughly in earnest."--from "David Copperfield" By Charles...
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Killian Press/ the MIT Press
唐嘉麗的報導是錯誤的或過份誇大：https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/killian-press個案：The MIT Press 成立Killian Press來出版Nanjing Never Cries我對這則報導的看法，乃是從經營大學出版社的角度來看。麻省理工出版社 破例為我中研院士出小說2015-10-18 03:43:58 世界日報...
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龍瑛宗
環島旅行 賴香吟 (20061111) 二十世紀末，台灣島戒嚴鬆綁，再次興起一波全民旅遊風，商業網絡與地方政府挖空心思炒作的各類套裝行程、民俗祭典、觀光節，熱鬧有餘，但除了刺激消費之外似乎再作不出其他的動能了。 一九三九年，新曆元旦假期，小說家龍瑛宗早上七點，抵達了台南火車站。這個在當時被認為全島最現代化的車站，在外牆驕傲地掛上一個展示現代時間的大型時鐘，其大致模樣，今天仍保留著。...
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帶著希羅多德去旅行 ：Ryszard Kapuscinski
Ryszard KapuścińskiReporterRyszard Kapuściński was a Polish reporter, journalist, traveller, photographer, poet and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation. WikipediaBorn:...
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Peter Mayle, author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE
Pumpkin Eaters By PETER MAYLE 2009In France, the topic of Halloween pumpkins can become more sensitive than village politics."It was a meal that we shall never forget; more accurately, it was several...
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Leonard Sidney Woolf/ Virginia Woolf 作品及論述、a BBC radio broadcast from 1937:/...
The Paris ReviewHappy birthday, Virginia Woolf! Listen to the only known surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, part of a BBC radio broadcast from 1937:http://bit.ly/1utro6AHave You Ever Heard Virginia...
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Rimbaud in Ethiopia, "在地獄裏一季""彩畫集"(Illuminations)
Arthur Rimbaud was an "angel in exile", according to his lover and fellow poet Paul Verlaine. But Rimbaud's terrorising of established literary figures (calling them "cunty" or "ink-shitter") and his...
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好兵帥克 "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hašek
Osudy Dobreho Vojaka Svejka 好兵帥克歷險記 Jaroslav Hasek(1883- )／星燦／允晨／捷克“After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.”―from "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav HašekThe eponymous...
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Stories By Doris Lessing 趁機會讀篇 One off the Short List
Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, eBookStoriesBy Doris LessingAbout the Book:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)This wide-ranging collection of the stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate—spanning more...
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Richard P. Feynman’s blackboard and a poem
California Institute of Technology - CaltechRichard P. Feynman’s reputation as a terrific teacher inspired the creation of a teaching prize at Caltech in his name. In honor of#TeachWeekCaltech, read...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
柯立芝 (Coleridge )在倫敦講英國文學時，提到Samuel Johnson 博士有天晚上回家，碰到有一女子昏倒路旁，他就將她背回自己的家，讓她醒過來，餵養之，讓她住到復原為止。柯立芝的時髦聽眾譁然，男的樂了，女的震驚。柯立芝只說"請諸君記起好撒馬利亞人的比喻。"（I remind you of the Parable of the Good...
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Escapism 段義孚；Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lectures (1983- )
Yi-Fu Tuan, Escapism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 譯者序中將 其"A Life of Learning"寫成在JHU，應該是錯誤的，是ACLS 的：The American Council of Learned Societies was created in 1919 to represent the...
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1964年諾貝爾文學獎Satre...... 存在主義即人文主義：Existentialism and Humanism
諾貝爾獎，在1964的今天，宣布文學獎得主是存在主義大家沙特，而他拒絕了。他說：除了自我塑造之外，人，甚麼也不是。（Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.）他認為在東西文化交流等方面，機構 (如諾貝爾獎)...
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Herodotus: The Histories. Everyman's Library. Newly Translated by Tom...
Everyman's Library"Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances."--from "The Histories" By HerodotusHerodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also...
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Markings by Hammarskjöld: A Life·(道格·哈馬紹)『道しるべ』/ Who Did It? / 許達然《苦悶的英雄》
Happy 70th birthday to the United Nations!UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the General Assembly building (1950s)Hammarskjöld liked quoting Buber’s apodictic remark: “The only reply to...
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陳松勇訐譙
楊斯棓的貼文。 陳松勇因為悲情城市這部片得金馬影帝時，也有不少人說他壞話，甚至有人當面指著他怒罵：「你憑什麼得這個獎？」 陳松勇用手搥胸兩下，用台語豪邁了喊了一聲：「憑我的氣質！」 （為什麼他離我的女神這麼近...，還嗅吸） 圖片引用自：http://i.mtime.com/tonyspace/blog/2845095/2/陳松勇訐譙 1993...
View Article《墓中回憶錄》Memoires d'outre-tombe [memoirs from beyond the tomb] (1849-50)
我記得三聯簡譯本等，有解釋書名意思和作者用意？參考日本的："回想録『墓の彼方からの回想』（Mémoires...
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E.H. Shepard,
Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his illustrations ofanthropomorphic characters in The Wind in...
View Article大戰『狄更斯』三百回合 (之一)：記倫敦； "Our Mutual Friend"
"Mr. Podsnap was well to do, and stood very high in Mr. Podsnap's opinion."--from "Our Mutual Friend" By Charles DickensWhen John Harmon—who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his...
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Emily Dickinson: "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark," is put in motion. "My...
Emily Dickinson's Words, VisualizedAn animation from a Harvard neuroscience course explores representations of perceptionTHEATLANTIC.COM|由 NADINE AJAKA 上傳We grow accustomed to the Dark -When light is...
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