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    繁星(节选) - 都德

    由于最近接触计算机过多让猫多少有些语言干瘪,面目可憎。转发篇都德写的小说。今天外面下雪了。阿花嘱咐猫多穿衣服;') 你也要多保重, 有机会一起去看星星^^ (到那里去找那么多羊呢?)

    (前文摘要,我-牧羊人 丝雷发列特-天真可爱的少女 因为暴雨都困在山上--有点“枯井底 淤泥处”的味道^^)
    .........


    “七月份,夜晚是短暂的,女主人……这不过是由于天气不好。”
    我赶快生起大火,为的是烘烤她的脚和被河水浸透了的衣裳。随后又给送去牛奶和乳酪,然而可怜的小姑娘既不想烤火,也不想吃东西,见到她双眼滚下一颗颗的泪珠,我自己也想哭出来。


    这时黑夜已完全降临。仅仅山脊上残留着一点落日的余晖,西方淡如烟雾的晚霞。我请求我们的姑娘进到棚内休息。我在新鲜的麦草上摊开一张崭新的羊皮之后,向她道了晚安,立即退出来坐在门外……上帝可以作证,尽管爱情之火在我体内燃烧,但任何坏念头都未产生过;仅仅以高度的自尊心想象着在羊舍的一角,靠近奇异的羊群,凝视着她睡觉。我们主人的姑娘一一同其他绵羊相比是更高贵更纯洁的母羊,——她躺下休息,对我的保护是衷心信任。我从不曾见过天空竟这么高旷,群星会如此璀璨。……突然,羊舍门开了,美丽的丝德法列特出现在门前,她睡不安稳,羊群把麦草弄得沙沙作响,有时它们又在梦中惊叫。她愿意坐在火堆旁边。见此情景,我便把一张母羊皮披在她的肩上,我弄旺了火,我们彼此默默无言地挨身坐着。假如你曾在灿烂的星光下过过夜,你会知道当我们进入梦乡的那一时刻,一个神秘的世界会在孤独与岑寂中显现出来。于是,泉水唱得更加欢乐,池塘映照出无数星辰。山上的一切精灵都自由自在地来来往往;空气中有各种沙沙声,各种难以听到的声音,仿佛人们听见树枝在延伸,青草在抽芽。白天,是生命活跃的世界;而黑夜,却是生物静止的世界。当人们对此还不习惯的时候,就觉得可怕……因此我们的姑娘已在全身发抖,一听到轻微的响声,就紧紧地靠着我。一次,一声悠长的惨叫来自下边闪光的池塘,波浪般地向我们冲来。同时一颗美丽的流星从我们头上向同一方向飞去,刚才我们听见的叫声似乎还带着一道白光。


    “这是什么东西?”丝德法列特低声问我。“这是一个进入天堂的灵魂,女主人。”我随即划了一个十字。她也照样划了,抬起头深有所思地沉默了一会,然后对我说:


    “这是真的吗?牧羊人,你和别的一些牧羊人全是有知识的人?”

    “并非如此,我的小姐。只因我们生活在比较接近星星的地方,所以对星体的运行,我们比住在平地的人要知道得多一些。”

     

    她时时仰望天空,头靠在手里,身上裹着羊皮,宛如银河边上的小牧童。她说:
    “这么多星星,多美丽呀!我从来不曾见过这么多的星星……你知道它们的名字吗,牧羊人?”
    “知道,女主人……你瞧!在我们头顶上方的是‘圣·杰克路’(银河)。它从法兰西直到西班牙的上空。这是在正直的查理曼对萨拉森作战的时候加利西亚的圣·杰克给他开辟的一条河。稍远一点,你可以看到‘灵魂的战车’(大熊星)和它的四条发光的车轴。在它前方的三颗星叫‘三畜星’,靠近第三颗的那颗最小的星叫‘车夫’。你见过周围如雨一般降落下来的那些星星么?那是上帝不让留在天上的一些灵魂……稍低一点,便是‘耙’,或者又叫做‘三个国王’(猎户星座)。这个星是我们用来作为时钟的,只须看看它,就知道现在已是后半夜了。再稍低一点,永远向着南方,闪着亮的‘约翰·德·米朗’,是天体的火炬(天狼里)。谈到这颗星,在我们牧羊人中有这么一种传说。据说有一天夜里,‘约翰·德·米朗’陪同‘三个国王’和‘布西里也’(昴星)被邀请参加它们的一颗友星的婚礼。‘布里西也’性子很急,它首先出发,沿着最高的一条路走去。你看,它在那里,在天空的最高处。‘三个国王’走下边这条路也赶上了它。可是,‘约翰·德·米朗’是个懒汉,因睡得很迟,就完全掉在后面了,一气之下,为了阻拦它们,便把它的手杖向它们抛去。因这缘故,‘三个国王’又叫做‘约翰·德·米朗的手杖’……然而在所有这些星体中最美丽的一颗星,女主人,要算我们的这颗星,就是‘牧羊者之星’(太白星),黎明它照着我们把羊群赶出去,黄昏时分又照着我们把羊群赶回来。我们还把它叫做‘玛格洛’,这美丽的‘玛格洛’一直跟在‘普罗旺斯的土地’(土星)的后边,而且每隔七年同它结婚一次。”“怎么!牧羊人,星星也要结婚吗?”

     

    “是的,女主人。”,正当我试图给她讲讲这些结婚仪式的时候,我感觉到有一种清凉而细腻的东西,轻柔地压在我的身上。这是她那陷入沉思的头,还有绣花带子、花边和波浪型的头发搁在我的身上。她一直这样没有动过,直到天空的群星逐渐暗淡下去,被正在升起的晨曦抹去了它们的光彩的时候。我呢,见她睡熟了,我心灵的深处曾产生过一点儿混乱,但是,由于这皎洁的夜所给予我的高尚的情操,它神圣地维护着我的良知。在我们的四周,群星依然静静地运行着,驯服得宛如一个庞大的羊群;此刻我不禁想象着群星中的一颗星,它是最美丽的,是最明亮的,只因迷失了路,来到这儿枕着我的肩膀睡熟了…… 

    There are a lot of interesting things to do in life besides being a scientist, and in some the job market is a lot better. 高见;)

    Psychological Problems are the Biggest Barrier.

    You must establish a firm psychological stance early in your graduate career to keep from being buffeted by the many demands that will be made on your time. If you don't watch out, the pressures of course work, teaching, language requirements and who knows what else will push you around like a large, docile molecule in Brownian motion. Here are a few things to watch out for:

    1. The initiation-rite nature of the PhD and its power to convince you that your value as a person is being judged. No matter how hard you try, you won't be able to avoid this one. No one does. It stems from the open-ended nature of the thesis problem. You have to decide what a "good" thesis is. A thesis can always be made better, which gets you into an infinite regress of possible improvements.

    Recognize that you cannot produce a "perfect" thesis. There are going to be flaws in it, as there are in everything. Settle down to make it as good as you can within the limits of time, money, energy, encouragement and thought at your disposal.

    You can alleviate this problem by jumping all the explicit hurdles early in the game. Get all of your course requirements and examinations out of the way as soon as possible. Not only do you thereby clear the decks for your thesis, but you also convince yourself, by successfully jumping each hurdle, that you probably are good enough after all.

    2. Nothing elicits dominant behavior like subservient behavior. Expect and demand to be treated like a colleague. The paper requirements are the explicit hurdle you will have to jump, but the implicit hurdle is attaining the status of a colleague. Act like one and you'll be treated like one.

    3. Graduate school is only one of the tools that you have at hand for shaping your own development. Be prepared to quit for awhile if something better comes up. There are three good reasons to do this.

    First, a real opportunity could arise that is more productive and challenging than anything you could do in graduate school and that involves a long enough block of time to justify dropping out. Examples include field work in Africa on a project not directly related to your PhD work, a contract for software development, an opportunity to work as an aide in the nation's capital in the formulation of science policy, or an internship at a major newspaper or magazine as a science journalist.

    Secondly, only by keeping this option open can you function with true independence as a graduate student. If you perceive graduate school as your only option, you will be psychologically labile, inclined to get a bit desperate and insecure, and you will not be able to give your best.

    Thirdly, if things really are not working out for you, then you are only hurting yourself and denying resources to others by staying in graduate school. There are a lot of interesting things to do in life besides being a scientist, and in some the job market is a lot better. If science is not turning you on, perhaps you should try something else. However, do not go off half-cocked. This is a serious decision. Be sure to talk to fellow graduate students and sympathetic faculty before making up your mind.

    孙悟空移民天宫的遭遇

    由于下界众仙作乱,玉帝召集手下召开紧急会议,太白金星想出一招:万岁,何不将他们移民到天宫来,一来可以解决累伯短缺,二来可以就近进行监督管理。玉帝龙颜大悦:好主意,只是如何将他们吸引到天宫来呢?太白金星说:这好办,大作广告,说天宫是最适合天下人居住的地方,并且到一定时间授予天宫正式居民身份。玉帝说:特别要把那个恐怖分子的头子孙悟空弄上来严加看管。太白金星诺诺而去。

    孙悟空在花果山看到太白金星带着一个仆从前来拜访,说是邀请孙悟空移民天宫,孙悟空说:我在这里过得好好的,去天宫干什么?太白金星连忙推过仆从:这位移民天宫快三年了,请他介绍一下经验。仆从忙说:“大圣,我原来是下界小仙,叫张有幸,移民天宫后,享受着下届没有的美好生活。天宫空气新鲜,绿草成荫,是最适合人居住的地方……”孙悟空给他说得心动,想到好朋友牛魔王和铁扇公主夫妻也移民去了天宫,就问到:我怎么才可以移民去?太白金星忙说:可以家庭团聚移民,也可以技术移民,我看大圣就适合技术移民。“技术移民?”孙悟空问,“我有什么技术?“大圣七十二变,一个筋斗十万八千里,这就是过硬的技术,到了天宫一定可以大显身手。”孙悟空一听大喜,决定移民。太白金星说:那我先回去了,让张有幸陪你随后而来。

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    Sorry lulu... But I can't stop ;3

    Well, today I shaved lulu's hair first time....  Since this is 1st time I operate my tricks on any person except myself Nervous is common.  The result is not unexpected , after standing in front of mirror for minutes. He didn't kill me anyway.  I always wonder I am a genuis! 
     
     

    顾影自怜和自我陶醉

    刚才看到书上说五四前流行的文学多半是 “满纸的顾影自怜和自我陶醉,而且激荡着青春的放纵。”
    充斥着男女“痴”情和“着了魔”似的伤感主义,我猜大概是琼瑶和金庸(特指天龙八部)的那一类把。其实稍微考虑一下当时读者的年纪就不见怪不怪了。

    对于青春期或青春期刚结束的年轻人,照着小说上讲的学着去爱一个人似乎总是嘬死的事情。我常怀疑那样是否‘浪费‘了我们年轻人最宝贵的时间(不过你有幸是家境富裕的诗人除外^^) 记得在武大上许绍健老师的大学语文,讲鲁迅的《伤逝》, 这位天才文学家(虽然他花费在政治和文化改革的精力比文学创作上要多)告诫年轻人“人生除了爱,还有很多其他要义”。  对从小饱受日本漫画(桂正和)和武侠小说(天龙八部)“毒害”的猫来说,这句话实在是根救命稻草。加上猫的小学语文课本告诉俺,写这种营营苟苟的文章的人为一伙大坏蛋(好像称作鸳鸯蝴蝶派或者新月派?)所以俺对那种家属文学向来不齿。

    前几天猫一个哥们给我唧唧歪歪什么《血色浪漫》,说看起来还很有趣,想不到这么有道行的兄弟都会沦落到这个地步;) 不过回来偷偷看了一集, 感觉似乎没有那么糟糕。昨天车上和朋友开玩笑说,人生最大的目标就是为爱找到一个目标,上帝,偶像,父母,男人,猴子,老鼠都不要紧 ?!.... 看来忠孝慈义似乎都可以算是爱的表现了,谁说爱不是无所不包的 ^^  看看卿卿我我的小说电视和幼稚无聊一样是年轻人的权利, 那些什么都明白的人多么可怜 !;)


    人生观就是这样,真实的表达出来便是,对错不是别人说了算的。猫这样好为人师又爱装老头的讨厌家伙用自己的人生阅历(二手货)来教训年轻人少走弯路....岂不是剥夺了人家犯错的乐趣 ?如果因为自己天性坚强爱斗争,喜欢革命文学或者晦涩深刻的鬼东西就要别人和你一起受苦,这不是混蛋是什么?

    恩 好为人师的毛病下次一定要改 ;)