PART ONETheTurning WheelEnd of PART ONE1Tears and SmokeTiamak found the empty treelessness of the High Thrithing oppressive. Kwanitupul was strange, too, but he had been visiting that place since childhood, and its tumbledown buildings and ubiquitous waterways at least reminded him a little of his marshy home. Even Perdruin, where he had spent time in lonely exile, was so filled with close-leaning walls and narrow pathways, so riddled with shadowy hiding places and blanketed in the salt smell of the sea, that Tiamak had been able to live with his homesickness. But here on
第1节:参透天机好过活(1) 黄金法则全集 前 言 参透天机好过活 生活当中,我们是不是经常会有这样的体验 比如,上班迟到了,越是怕被人发现,越是容易在电梯门口撞到老板。至少,我们的感觉中常常会是这样。 另外,越不想让外人知道的事情,往往越会引起对方的探知欲,到头来秘密反倒泄露得更快。至少,事实常常就是如此。 还有,商界之中,有的老板整天忙作一团,恨不能让自己变成"八爪鱼",但是麾下的公司却日见萎靡;而有的老板好像终日悠游自如,事业却生龙活虎!至少,这样的情形不在少数。 …… 种种表象之下,看似暗藏玄机,其实只不过契合了这样一个道理:世间万物都自有其规律,正是它们,在我们生存的这个世界中默默发挥着重要的作用。这些看不见的潜规则,之于我们的生活与工作,就如同一只只看不见的手,在冥冥中拨弄着我们彼此的命运!有的成为我们生命中的暗礁,有的则成为通往成功与辉煌的...
《中国人的精神》序言(1) 最后,我收入了一篇关于时政的文章作为附录——即“战争与出路”。众所周知,谈论现实时政是危险的,但我仍打算这么做,因为这可以证明中国文明的价值,我想说明的是,学习中国文明如何有助于解决当今世界面临的问题——拯救欧洲文明免于崩溃。事实上,我想表明的是,学习中国语言、中国著作和中国文学不仅仅是汉学家的爱好。 在这篇文章中,我尝试揭示导致这场战争的道德因素;因为,除非战争的真正原因的道德被理解并修正,否则无法找到解决之道。在文中我尝试揭示,战争的道德因素,是英国的暴民崇拜和德国的强权崇拜。在文章中,相对于德国的强权崇拜来说,我更强调英国的暴民崇拜,因为,客观地看待这个问题,我认为正是英国的暴民崇拜,导致了德国的强权崇拜;事实上,整个欧洲,尤其是英国的暴民崇拜,导致了现在人人痛恨谴责的、残暴的德国军国主义。...
道格卡普是美国国际搜救队长,自一九八五年至今,他及他的队员己参与全世界七十九次重大灾难的救灾工作,他曾经爬进近七百栋因为地震、爆炸而严重倒塌的建筑物内搜查受困的生还者以及罹难者的遗体。除了参与1995年日本神户大地震及美国俄克拉荷马市联邦大楼爆炸案救搜工作,十二年来国际新闻中的重大灾难救灾,他都没缺席。2006年12月19日他在结束台湾访问离开前,除了台湾搜救总队曾邀他演讲,美国在台协会等部门也邀请他,为有关的外交官员传授在建筑物倒塌时如何求生。很多学生在防震演习中,老师总是叫他们躲在课桌下,道格得知这点后,很焦急地一再呼吁:不要躲在桌子、床铺下,而要以比桌、床高度更低的姿势,躲在桌子床铺的旁边。他以先前和土耳其政府、大学合作拍制的地震逃生录像带,说明不要躲在桌下避震的道理。通过土耳其政府协助,制作单位爆破一栋废弃大楼,仿真地震时建筑物倒塌的情形,工作人员先依据“常识”,在...
The Danger in Dreams Thomas Covenant was talking in his sleep. At times he knew what he was doing; the broken pieces of his voice penetrated his stupor dimly, like flickers of innocence. But he could not rouse himself-the weight of his exhaustion was too great. He babbled like millions of people before him, whole or ill, true or false. But in his case there was no one to hear. He would not have been more alone if he had been the last dreamer left alive. When the shrill demand of the phone cut through him, he woke up wailing. For a moment after he threw himself
第1节:一、时间荒漠 第一章 时间零点 一、时间荒漠 按照大爆炸宇宙学理论,宇宙起源于一个"奇点"。所谓"奇点",实际上是一个数学上的描述,这个"奇点"的特征就是体积无限小,质量无限大,密度无限大,时空曲率无限大。突然有一天,这个"奇点"发生了改变,变得不再是"奇点",而是产生了时间和空间的结构,在这个时间和空间的结构上,宇宙开始创生。物理学家们形象地称之为"大爆炸",这就是所谓"大爆炸宇宙学"的起源。 实际上,上面这些看起来很玄妙、超越我们想象能力的描述,不过是物理学家和数学家用以描述宇宙最初状态的一种方式。 根据爱因斯坦的广义相对论,宇宙不是静止的,而是膨胀的,或者是收缩的。后来的物理学家和天文学家经过天文观测注意到,在很大的尺度上,各种星系都在离我们远去。这不但印证了爱因斯坦的理论,而且说明宇宙在膨胀。既然它在膨胀,那么如果往回想,过去的宇宙一定比现在小;如果继...
前言前言由于近几年来艺术拍卖会上竹木牙角器行情看好,成交几率很高,大有与书画、玉器相抗衡之势,所以许多人对竹木牙角器给予很大的关注。只是文博界、收藏界习惯地把竹木牙角器划归为“杂项”之列,就是这个“杂”字,也足以使许多人产生了误解,以为这不过是一些小玩意、小摆设而已,没有什么文化含量。其实,就艺术品欣赏而言,其文化含量本不在于形体的大小,也不在于风格的繁复与简练,而在于是否体现时代的精神与风貌。正如文学上的楚辞、汉赋、六朝骈文、唐诗、宋词有特定时代风貌一样,雕刻艺术也是如此,三代彝器是雕刻最早流行的艺术形式,其后又有石窟寺艺术盛行于南北朝至唐代之间。在宏伟的艺术形式之后,便有明代小玩意、小摆设的兴起。故明清是装饰小雕塑盛行的时代,是制作小玩意、小摆设为主的时代,各种材质、各种技法的工艺雕刻纷纷登场,大放异彩,一物一器莫不雕工精妙、做工奇巧。明张岱《陶庵梦忆》记载...
A RED-HAIRED GIRL THE residence of Mr. Peter Pett, the well-known financier, on Riverside Drive is one of the leading eyesores of that breezy and expensive boulevard. As you pass by in your limousine, or while enjoying ten cents worth of fresh air on top of a green omnibus, it jumps out and bites at you. Architects, confronted with it, reel and throw up their hands defensively, and even the lay observer has a sense of shock. The place resembles in almost equal proportions a cathedral, a suburban villa, a hotel and a Chinese pagoda. Many of its windows are of stained glas
The solitary figure in the saffron robes shielded his eyes from the glare and squinted down the glacier to where the enormous black vessel lay, one-third submerged, in the floor of the valley. Allowing for the portion lost below the icy surface of the frozen lake it was easily some three hundred cubits long, at least fifty wide and another thirty high. It had, overall, the appearance of some fantastic barge with a kind of gabled house mounted upon its deck. Its gopher wood timbers were blackened by a heavy coating of pitch and hardened by the petrification of the glacier