可爱的米老鼠

奇境中的爱丽丝

日本最好玩的地方，就是迪士尼。什么清水寺啦，大阪城啦，火山啦，让人特别特别地失望。

Believe it or not, it is true.

    女娲造人的时候,为了防止泥浆弄脏自己的纤纤玉手,便戴上一副长长的手套.左手的手套上粘满智慧的种子,右手的手套则布满了财富的基因.她先用右手捏了几个精巧别致的泥人,那些人以及他们的后代便成为今天的贵族,天生荣华富贵,拥有一生享受不尽的财富.因为没有接触到女娲的左手,所以,按照神话的常理推断,这些人应该没有智慧.而且,按照男左女右的习惯,他们坚定地认为,,所以,他们有理由瞧不起左手或者没有用手造就的另外两类人.

    女娲累了,她随手拿起一根柳条,蘸满泥浆乱甩了一通.这些泥点以及他们的后人便成了既无智慧又没有财富的芸芸众生.正是因为没有智慧,他们整日生活在痛苦之中却不知道痛苦,他们都是阿Q先生最最忠孝的子孙.

    女娲歇了一会儿,又重新振作精神,用左手捏制了几个古色古香的小泥人.这些泥人和他们的子孙就是那些充满智慧,却与财富无缘的读书人,

    下面的这段文字，取自笔者至今尚未发表、将来也不准备再发表的一篇论文。论文是评述英国作家福尔斯的处女作《收藏家》的。笔者认为，《收藏家》所欲揭示的是“艺术与科学的抗争”，小说是对科学至上论的反击。也许是由于自己是人文学者的缘故吧，论文论点似乎有些“偏激”，论证也更像散文，抒情性大于“理性”。但我执著地认为，就像《法国中尉的女人》的结尾所说的那样，艺术的文风总有一天会破茧而出，成为文学批评的新的时尚。“总有一天，生活之河会重新奔流，最终注入深不可测的、带有咸味的、遥远的大海。”

The War Against Science: Artistic Freedom in The Collector

    科学至上论的阴影并不能遮盖永恒的艺术之光，“被科学家非人化的东西，必须有人将其人性化”，福尔斯肩负着这样一种崇高的历史使命。通过对莎士比亚《暴风雨》的回写，福尔斯让世人看清

1926     John Robert Fowles born at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, 31 March. Son of Robert, a tobacco importer, and Gladys（formerly Richards）.

Lead-in

The underlying difference between a boy's point of view and an adult's point of view may be illustrated by the following example. While we are watching the starry noght, a little boy's response is 'twinkle twinkle little star', but an adult's stock response is 'the star is the star as it was'.

When we remain innocent, the world is beautiful. When we have experienced the growing pain, the world is monotonous.

Innocence is happiness.

Songs of Innocence-The Chimney Sweeper

When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,
That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: so I said,
'Hush, Tom! never mind

Notes:

It seems that love poems are for the young, by the young and of the young. E.g. Burns’ A Red Red Rose & Yeats’ When You Are Old. To the best of my knowledge, John Anderson My Jo is the only English poem of the old. It should be cherished for its uniqueness.

John Anderson，My Jo

这首诗，摘自梁实秋的'槐园梦忆'，文中对故妻程季淑女士的绵绵情意，读来令人感动又羡慕。这是他俩生前非常喜爱的一首诗。但是梁在该文发表不久，即像年轻人一样狂热地去追求韩菁菁了，可见世上没有永久的爱情。

Comment: Life is more an irony than a journey.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

 John Anderson my Jo, John,

When we were first acquent,

Your locks were like the raven.

Your bonie brow was brent;

But now your brow is beld, John,

Your lock

1.  Head, Domimic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction. Chongqing Publishing House,2006.
2. Shaffer, Brian W. Reading the Novel in English. Blackwell Publishing,2006.
3. Finney, Brian.
4. Finney,Brian. British Fiction since 1984. Blackwell Publishing,2006.
5. Moseley, Merritt. Understanding Julian Barnes. University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
6. Childs, Peter. The Fiction of Ian McEwan. Palgrave, 2006.
7. Dedrick, James. Understanding Martin Amis. University of South Carolina Press, 1997.

The above list is only part of the suggested reading for the MA compulsory course 'British fiction since 1945'. All the books are available now in my personal library.

The anatomy of literature may be boring, but the reading of literature is always pleasant in its own way.