note to myself

目前关注的书籍和影视类作品

书籍
Oracle Night - Paul Auster
A Perfect Day for Bananafish (Nine Stories) - Salinger
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal (最想先看这本）
2666 - Roberto Bolano

影视
太阳照常升起 - 姜文
立春 - 顾长卫

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覺得生活中有時是有些啓示和徵兆的，也或許這樣想，日子更加有趣味，也或許是心裏開始相信些什麽。

時常看“鏘鏘三人行”，昨天看的一集裏，文濤說了一句“人生啊，僅靠一個人是擔當不起來的”（大意），當時聽到有種當頭一棒的感覺。

人生是可以被形容為走路的，我的話希望它是條山路，或者說是山裏的許多條路，而我們在正常狀態下是走在那條主路上的（就像在Appalachian Trail上獨行的Bill Bryson）。路的盡頭不明朗，方向也不十分確定，總之日復一日，我們就這樣驚險刺激也好、平淡無奇也好、感動也好、無聊也好這樣踽踽向前。周圍是樹海，主路的兩測隨時都有岔路，我們隨時都可以選擇任何一條岔路，有些岔路可以走到終點，有些岔路可以走回主路，而有些是往樹海的深處走去，沒有人知道樹海的深處是什麽。

muses

The Three Graces by Antonio Canova

It begins to dawn on me that we might be, afterall, surrounded by muses, that our artistic inspirations might not be entirely of our own.  For several years, I have been trying in vain to restore the state of mind I was in in that singular and seemingly too-good-to-be-true year of my life.  With no job in the prospect and a completed education, I had nothing better to do, and it was mere chance that I embarked upon a year of fierce writing.  Before I realized it, what started as a spur of the moment drive had turned into a full-fledged commitment and I ended up with a small crowd of dedicated and persistent followers.  To this day, I am unable to bring to a closure what I started, a story without an ending (the ending has long been decided in my head, just not put down on paper), a phase left hanging in mid-air, mildly tantalizing yet always a few inches beyond my grasp.  At a point, I seriously considered the possibility that it wasn't me in that shell with fingers maddeningly dancing away on the keyboard amassing up to ten thousand word count per day for the good part of a year, but rather a muse (in fine Greek chiton) hovering over me doing all the masterminding and orchestrating.  Nonethless, I suppose it was mortal passion that led to the advent of a wandering muse. 

念珠

那天，如練說她要去山裏尋找念珠。


念珠？蘅皋不解。如練出門前只留下這句話。他對如練的小性情總是不解。


前一天下午，如練[卒瓦]了她的木棉花茶杯。那是個細白瓷帶蓋的茶杯，杯身杯蓋用銀綫勾勒出五片花瓣，兩兩三三立於枝間，染了紅釉。如練每天用那個杯子喝茶，有時是老家村裏的親戚手炒的新茶，有時是非洲的紅茶包，有時是蘅皋煮的綠豆湯。

A Walk in the Woods

Googled "Bill Bryson" and read a little about him on Wikipedia.  He is one of those gifted writers who can write about a variety of widely different subjects.  He wrote travelogues, nature, popular sciences and the English Language.  But then again rich experiences surely grant rich and versatile writings. 

Just started reading A Walk in the Woods, and its hard to keep a straight face reading this book on the subway.  For a lot of people, hiking in the woods and be surrounded by miles of impenetrable nature is such a romantic notion.  And so far, A Walk in the Woods utterly dispels that notion, though it is done in such a coffee-choking manner.  I was told by a friend that hiking is actually a very dangerous business.  Though it is not absolutely necessary to be armed to the teeth with professional and savagely pricey hiking gears, without the right hiking attire and with the wrong parts of your bare skin exposed, you could get a deadly tick bite and lose sanity (if not your life）for the rest of your miserable life. 

同鳳閣鸞台平章事

大概是小學的時候在電視上看過86版的狄仁傑斷案傳奇，從此留下深刻的印象。之後，通過書籍或影視作品又不斷地接觸到狄仁傑的各種以史為據或完全虛構的故事。

根据百度的资料：狄仁杰（630-700），字怀英，山西太原人（唐代並州太原人），唐初期傑出的政治家，武朝的中流砥柱。武曌稱其“囯老”。狄仁傑為官，居廟堂之上，以百姓心為心。他在武朝曾擔任唐最高司法職務，判決積案、疑案；昭雪錯案、冤案。任大理寺丞時，一年内判決處理了大量積壓案件（可見當時其他官吏的無能怠職）。武朝天授二年（691），狄仁傑被任命為同鳳閣鸞台平章事，開始了其短暫的宰相生涯（後因武承嗣罷為彭澤令，於697年再度官復原職）。

　圣历元年（698年），武则天的侄儿武承嗣、武三思数次使人游说太后，请立为太子。武则天犹豫不决。狄仁杰以政治家的深谋远虑，劝说武则天顺应民心，还政于庐陵王李显。当时，大臣李昭德等曾劝武则天继续以四子李旦为嗣，但没有为武则天接受。对武则天了解透彻、洞烛机微的狄仁杰从母子亲情的角度从容地劝说她：“立子，则千秋万岁后配食太庙，承继无穷；立侄，则未闻侄为天子而附姑于庙者也。”武则天说：“此朕家事，卿勿预知。”狄仁杰沉着而郑重地回答：“王者以四海为家。四海之内，孰非臣妾？何者不为陛下家事！君为元首，臣为股肱，义同一体。况臣位备宰相，岂得不预知乎？”最终，武则天感悟，听从了狄仁杰的意见，亲自迎接庐陵王李显回宫，立为皇嗣，唐祚得以维系。狄仁杰因此被历代政治家、史学家称为有再造唐室之功的忠臣义士。（摘自百度）

狄仁傑於久視元年（700）病故，武曌泣曰，“朝堂空也。”