到底什麼是文化呢, 有人說它是一個民族的精神和脊樑,我覺得有欠空洞, 有人說文化可以分為三種幹流,上層文化、中層文化、下層文化, 我覺得又有些籠統。即便有個大致的概念,但我們又為什麼需要它呢?這幾個問題一直纏繞著我。to entertain and to instruct前幾天取到新買的「The Best American Short Stories 2010". ed [ ...閱讀全文 ]
道可道,非常道。名可名,非常名。無名天地之始。有名萬物之母。故常無欲以觀其妙。常有欲以觀其徼。此兩者同出而異名,同謂之玄。玄之又玄,眾妙之門。There is no absolute reasoning behind everything, just like there isno general name for every object.The world was created without a name, and we started ours [ ...閱讀全文 ]
Monday night On my way home, I missed a train. It was a crowded one, which meansit must have been long since the last one came. I was upset, thought I hadto wait lonely on the subway station. However, to my surprise, the nexttrain came within seconds, with very few people. So I walked intot [ ...閱讀全文 ]
... The Dome of the Rock, 如今耶路撒冷的標誌 05年看過一部電影,Kingdom of Heaven,Orlando Bloom 演一個法國鄉村鐵匠Balian,,因為剛剛為嬰兒夭折而自殺的妻子受到神父侮辱(自殺的人是不能進天堂的,妻子的屍體被砍去腦袋,他也要背負受懲罰的十字架)一怒之下,他殺了當地的神父,千里迢迢去聖城,幫助那 [ ...閱讀全文 ]
Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination encircles the world. 年底美國大選,與在以色列的同事聊天。我是站在奧巴馬這一邊的,然而很大一部分猶太人還是更相信共和黨。我感覺到奧巴馬的middle n [ ...閱讀全文 ]
許多在黃石公園的裝飾是以熊作為標誌的,小到門上的把手,大到天花板上的裝飾。visit center的大門口, 一個醒目的地方,寫著一排字,引起了我的注意:From 1980-2002, over 62 million people visited Yellowstone National Park (YNP). During the same period, 32 people were injured by bears. The chance of being in [ ...閱讀全文 ]