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发帖数: 430 | 1 嘿嘿，小径分岔的花园的事儿咱们就说到这里？大家说的我觉得都挺不错的，要是都达成
共识以后就没得讨论了。：）
还是说点儿轻松的吧，昨晚读了Ｋｕｒｔ Ｖｏｎｎｅｇｕｔ的Ｔｉｍｅｑｕａｋｅ，老
人家在七十多岁写的后现代体半自传小说，内容简介上说这个故事讲的是２００１年某日
，时间突然回到了十年前，人类只好被迫再重新活过这十年，有意识却没有ｆｒｅｅ ｗ
ｉｌｌ，就跟演戏一样。
这个玄乎的主旋律里面，其实穿插了Ｖｏｎｎｅｇｕｔ回顾一生的片断，有些逸事也有些
箴言哲学，还有黄色笑话！
喜欢正经文学的读者肯定会大受打击，他的文风简直是对“意识流”和“后现代体”的一
种侮辱。：）口语化文字贯穿全篇，倒像是个精神很好的老头子兴致勃勃地抓住读者，想
起什么以前遇到过的趣事名人就吹一通牛。可是我喜欢他笑呵呵的声音和幽默感，写自传
的作者有点儿幽默感真是很重要的事情，把自传写成意识流体裁的科幻小说，是件挺不容
易的事情。
Ｖｏｎｎｅｇｕｔ自己还是个画家，风格大概是漫画形式的米罗和毕加索，在他的网站（
http://www.vonnegut.com/ ）上有些收藏，在Ｔｉｍｅｑｕａｋｅ里面说他的哥哥（是
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发帖数: 361 | 2 just saw this... haha. I love Kurt Vonnegut!
laughed through all his books I've ever read.
Sometimes you feel not like reading a novel,
but listening to him by his side,
all those weird and funny imaginations throughout the books...
"Breakfast of Champions" really stands out on this point.
Remember one of his jokes in this book, about chicken soup... aha...
But my favorite is always "Cat's Cradle",
maybe since it's his first book that I read...
The idea of how to make poor people happy when u ca |
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发帖数: 2453 | 3 跑题与A Man Without A Country - 库尔特·冯内古特(Kurt Vonnegut)
2007-05-08
Kurt Vonnegut 今年四月初过世。我这篇算不上是书评的书评，赶在他走之前写了
出来，权当送行吧。
从小到大，总是东游西逛的，对于机场，对于别离，似乎也是平常得不能再平常的
事，反倒是那些送行的，每每放不下，若非再三叮嘱要保重保重，就是狠狠一吻再揉揉
头发，相比之下，自己转身时的满面笑容，竟是大大地不应该了。
其实，走便走了。
这样走，才好回来。
这样走，才好忘了你。
忘了你，才好记起你。
一如跑题。
跑题跑得严重，才好恬不知耻地绕回来，才好显得一切都理所当然，而非是能力不
及，以至开篇便驾驭不住。赵元任替《阿丽思漫游奇境记》做的序中 说，“会看书的
喜欢看序，但是会做序的要做到叫看书的不喜欢看序，叫他愈看愈急着要看正文，叫他
看序没有看到家，就跳过了看底下，这才算做序做得到家。我 既然拿这个当作做序的
标准，就得要说些不应该说的话，使人见了这序，觉得他非但没有做，存在，或看的必
要，而且还有不看，不存在，不做的好处。”译文看 了，只记得这序做得好，还... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4091 | 4 发信人: chichazi (吃叉子), 信区: USANews
标 题: 推荐一个六十年代的科幻短篇，道尽aa本质，可笑可悲可叹
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Oct 19 14:09:30 2013, 美东)
成篇于1961，你不得不佩服少数智者对于未来的洞察力。一如1984的作者，勇敢新世界
的作者，等等
故事背景是所有高于平均智商者都要在耳朵里装上一个干扰器发出随机噪音以干扰佩戴
者的思绪，结果降低智商至平均之下。
不仅是高智商要被降低，美丽女子也必须要戴上面具，但目的是为了“平权”，俊美的
兰陵王和狄青戴上狰狞面具杀敌的故事是不会在这个乌托邦里流传了。
aa的本质就是想搞均智愚，口号是造反有理傻婢万岁。
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the la... 阅读全帖 |
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 5 成篇于1961，你不得不佩服少数智者对于未来的洞察力。一如1984的作者，勇敢新世界
的作者，等等
故事背景是所有高于平均智商者都要在耳朵里装上一个干扰器发出随机噪音以干扰佩戴
者的思绪，结果降低智商至平均之下。
不仅是高智商要被降低，美丽女子也必须要戴上面具，但目的是为了“平权”，俊美的
兰陵王和狄青戴上狰狞面具杀敌的故事是不会在这个乌托邦里流传了。
aa的本质就是想搞均智愚，口号是造反有理傻婢万岁。
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter
than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody ... 阅读全帖 |
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 6 成篇于1961，你不得不佩服少数智者对于未来的洞察力。一如1984的作者，勇敢新世界
的作者，等等
故事背景是所有高于平均智商者都要在耳朵里装上一个干扰器发出随机噪音以干扰佩戴
者的思绪，结果降低智商至平均之下。
不仅是高智商要被降低，美丽女子也必须要戴上面具，但目的是为了“平权”，俊美的
兰陵王和狄青戴上狰狞面具杀敌的故事是不会在这个乌托邦里流传了。
aa的本质就是想搞均智愚，口号是造反有理傻婢万岁。
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter
than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5079 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 Midlife 讨论区 】
发信人: mirrorjj (人在天涯), 信区: Midlife
标 题: The last week in September is Banned Book Week
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Sep 23 11:56:32 2013, 美东)
The banned classics:
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by Ge... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 82482 | 8 http://www.themorningnews.org/article/lone-star-statements
Reviews Oct 21, 2005
Lone Star Statements
by Matthew Baldwin
The praise of professional critics hardly matters to the book-reviewing
readers at Amazon.com. A compilation of the best of the worst… about the
best.
The following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books
from Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. Some
entries have been edited.
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
“Morrison’s obviously a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 82482 | 9 *Status:* */False./*
*Origins:* In July 2000, an inventive story about Oracle CEO Larry
Ellison bestowing an unusual commencement speech upon the graduating
class of Yale University began popping up in various inboxes. Some were
left wondering if this could be the real thing, given what is known of
Ellison's famed ego, and because the wide circulation of the 1997 Kurt
Vonnegut commencement speech hoax had prepared
the way for this piece to sound plausible.
In truth, El... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5079 | 10 The banned classics:
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. An... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2045 | 11 那个Siri的实验很牛呀，估计中国人活人都听不出来。
Windows Phone, however, struggled to provide consistently accurate
transcriptions, often missing words and getting more complex statements
wrong. For example, the spoken text "Kurt Vonnegut lived near Schenectady,
New York," one time resulted in the message "Could I get laid in your
Schenectady New York." An interesting message that Mr. Vonnegut would have
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发帖数: 9656 | 12 http://my.cnd.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=30543
新疆老李
这几年回国同我的中学同学来往比较多。一是我大学的同学和以后的同事都没有在我家
乡工作，回去想找朋友玩只有找中学同学了。我的许多中学同学同我一起上了12年的学
，甚至同我一起下过乡。无论是男同学，还是女同学，老感情还是有的。二是我的石河
子同学特别热情。这里也带一点个人地域偏见看问题了：俺们新疆人比较实诚，石河子
的人就更不用说了。一方山水养一方人，俺们那疙瘩的人好交往，比较实在，打交道不
用动什么脑子。第三，我们石河子一中七六级的同学们成立了一个同学会，大家还常在
一起凑一凑，特别是在办红白喜丧事的时候。喜事已经轮到我们的下一代了，我们这一
辈的只能是二婚、三婚（福气?）的同学。这几年大家已给好几个同学办了丧事，大都
是男同学，而且都同喝酒有关联。再就是我们这些远离家乡的同学回来的时候，大家美
言道我们的回来给大家的相聚创造了个机会。
我们这一批同学在外地（外省和外国）的比例不高，大约只有百分之一、二十，一般都
是上了学以后，寻找机会去了外面。我... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 204 | 13 Nicholas Castle, a 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate who taught English with
the Peace Corps in rural China, died Thursday.
Mr. Castle, who grew up in Brentwood, died at a Chinese hospital three days
after falling ill, said his mother, Susan Castle, who flew to China to be
with her son. Doctors aren't certain what the illness was, she said.
"I always called him scary smart," said Susan Castle, a freelance network
administrator. "He was all-around smart - he liked everything. I looked on
his Kindl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 15 有教徒这样问过我。
我的回答是：这个问题你搞反了。你应该问，如果死亡象征着永生的开始，那尘世间的
生活还有什么意义呢？
正是死亡的不可避免，才让人生变得有价值。The sense of impending doom makes us
what we are and gives meaning to our existence.
"Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by
an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Hea
ven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not
mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me.
It didn't hurt much. It wasn't... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 655 | 16 93% Republican
56% Libertarian
39% Democrats
Only 56& Libertarian!!! I am such a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut. :-( |
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H****y
发帖数: 2992 | 17
跟你说说我为什么要生这个闲气。现在无论多么落后的国家地区，包括非洲中东，都在
encourage女性出来工作受教育，尤其是理工类。偏偏我们文明古国的有些同胞，经常
要举些例子来discourage自己的女同胞的事业心。“你想争食儿是吧？也行，后果就是
没了老公也生不出孩子。”
你觉得我在网上争这些无聊吗？你认为无聊的话，大可娶一个不说话的老婆，这是你的
权利。我作为一个业余作家，一个非常有幸能够接受了高等教育的女性，说话不单是我
的权利，还是我的义务。我不替女同胞说话，指望你给说吗？一个人受了教育之后，只
是独善其身，自己活好了就完了，不管同类如何，那这个人的书都白读了。
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one
living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” ~ Kurt Vonnegut |
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发帖数: 9656 | 18 【 以下文字转载自 History 讨论区 】
发信人: Communipig (共产猪), 信区: History
标 题: 谈中学表现对未来的影响和预测——以我的中学同学为例
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 4 15:12:19 2011, 美东)
http://my.cnd.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=30543
新疆老李
这几年回国同我的中学同学来往比较多。一是我大学的同学和以后的同事都没有在我家
乡工作，回去想找朋友玩只有找中学同学了。我的许多中学同学同我一起上了12年的学
，甚至同我一起下过乡。无论是男同学，还是女同学，老感情还是有的。二是我的石河
子同学特别热情。这里也带一点个人地域偏见看问题了：俺们新疆人比较实诚，石河子
的人就更不用说了。一方山水养一方人，俺们那疙瘩的人好交往，比较实在，打交道不
用动什么脑子。第三，我们石河子一中七六级的同学们成立了一个同学会，大家还常在
一起凑一凑，特别是在办红白喜丧事的时候。喜事已经轮到我们的下一代了，我们这一
辈的只能是二婚、三婚（福气?）的同学... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 168 | 21 * On ordinary people:
- We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. (Japanese
Proverb)
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. (Dave Barry)
- Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. (Kurt
Vonnegut)
* On Nature of Dancing:
- Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! (Constanze)
- Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to
guess what a man is going to do before he does it. (Christopher Morl |
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发帖数: 1488 | 22 hints 还是不够多，我自由发散了～
对Arthur Hailey的书我也印象很深，《大饭店》里有个运气很好的小偷，很可爱。同
一时期我还看过一些Dick Francis 的‘通俗’小说，专门说赛马界里各色人物。前一
阵版上在讨论的John le Carre 的间谍小说耐人寻味。扯远些的话《Memoirs of a
Geisha》也算内幕？不过其实要主要想看内幕还是纪实文好，比如 Tracy Kidder的《
Soul of a New Machine》，版上bos推崇的John McPhee.
Saul Bellow 那辈里 Kurt Vonnegut的 《Slaughterhouse-Five》是绝对可以试试的。
如果是喜欢academic 题材，http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_novel 下面的“Significant examples”很多。你前面说“文艺”，我觉得自己读过的美国作家里最文艺的大概还算《The Great Gatsby》和Truman Capote的这本 http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-T... 阅读全帖 |
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w***r
发帖数: 7173 | 23 先列出新闻周刊评选出来的Top 100 books. 然后再列出BBC评选出来的 Top 100. 最后
列出这两个书目中都出现的书(24部) . 你都读过几部？
1 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
3 Ulysses by James Joyce
4 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
6 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
7 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
8 The Iliad by Homer
9 The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
10 The Odyssey by Homer
11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12 The Divine Comedy ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7050 | 24 《新闻周刊》：最好的100本书
1. War and Peace战争与和平
作者 : Leo Tolstoy列夫托尔斯泰
2. 1984
作者 : George Orwell乔治奥威尔
3. Ulysses尤利西斯
作者 : James Joyce詹姆斯乔伊斯
4. Lolita洛丽塔
作者 : Vladimir Nabokov弗拉迪米尔·纳博科夫
5. THE SOUND AND THE FURY喧嚣与骚动
作者 : William Faulkner福克纳
6. Invisible Man隐形人
作者 : Ralph Ellison拉尔夫·埃里森
7. To the Lighthouse到灯塔去
作者 : Virginia Woolf沃尔夫
8. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
作者 : Homer荷马
9. Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见
作者 : Jane Austen奥斯汀
10. The Divine Comedy神曲
作者 : Dante Alighieri但丁
11. The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事
作者 ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7050 | 25 Many different groups meet in New York City to share ideas and common
interests. Book clubs are no exception. However, many of them are either
transient or meet only rarely. These book clubs consistently meet and offer
the reader a variety of experiences, from fiction to nonfiction to the
downright strange.
Books That Make You Go Hmmm…! Meetup
NYC Meetups
Location changes with each Meetup
meetup.com/HmmmBooks
For those with eclectic tastes, this book club reads selections from such
varied autho... 阅读全帖 |
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wh
发帖数: 141625 | 26 前天收到通知，咱们又得了一次版面成就奖，版库进账2000，谢谢各位！正好看到一个
看开头猜书名的游戏，咱就拿它来发包子吧：请猜猜以下开头分别出自哪篇名作？别
google，瞎蒙玩。有几题很容易猜，句子或书名里有线索。15题里我蒙对了9个呢，看
看你们能蒙对几个？
猜对1-3题的奖励10伪币；
4-6题20伪币；
7题以上30伪币。
也欢迎出题目（名作开头）让大家竞猜；或者说说你记得的名作开头。中文作品有什么
家喻户晓的开头？每出一题或说一个开头的奖励10伪币；30伪币封顶。请版务及时把竞
猜题目更新到主帖里，方便竞猜。
题来也——
1
a. Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”
b. Vladimir Nabokov, “Lolita”
c. Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”
d. Toni Morrison, “Paradise”
2
a. Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea”
b. Gabriel García Márquez, “One Hundred Yea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 27 对了十一题，比我多！只有1和13、14、15不对。大都看过吗？
我来公布答案：
1. All this happened, more or less.
a. Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”
2. Call me Ishmael.
c. Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick”
3. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at
the elbow.
b. Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
4. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the
Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
c. Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”
5. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11198 | 28 Name one book that changed your life?
294 Comments
Harry potter, because it taught me people will do anything under the name of
'For the Greater Good', the government will not help us and the papers will
not publish the real story because some twits can't stand the reality. Also
that it doesn't matter when we have powers or not, some people will always
think they are better than the rest and find ways to do that and degrade
others, talking about the Pureblood supremacy. Wow, doesn't it sound
fam... 阅读全帖 |
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 29 有教徒这样问过我。
我的回答是：这个问题你搞反了。你应该问，如果死亡象征着永生的开始，那尘世间的
生活还有什么意义呢？
正是死亡的不可避免，才让人生变得有价值。The sense of impending doom makes us
what we are and gives meaning to our existence.
"Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by
an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Hea
ven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not
mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me.
It didn't hurt much. It wasn't... 阅读全帖 |
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d**********n
发帖数: 3634 | 30
嗯，Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Hunter S.
Thompson都在里面写过 |
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 31 有教徒这样问过我。
我的回答是：这个问题你搞反了。你应该问，如果死亡象征着永生的开始，那尘世间的
生活还有什么意义呢？
正是死亡的不可避免，才让人生变得有价值。The sense of impending doom makes us
what we are and gives meaning to our existence.
"Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by
an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Hea
ven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not
mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me.
It didn't hurt much. It wasn't... 阅读全帖 |
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b***o
发帖数: 101 | 32 书摘，关于艺术（a.k.a. why fart around）
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of
making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly,
is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower.
Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy
poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous rewards.
You will have created something." |
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z***a
发帖数: 56 | 33 打印了一张单子，按图索骥中。。。下半年的书目都齐了。。。偶上你的研究生罢。
成
老
日
ｗ
些
一
想
传
容
（
是
几
众
得
，
论
浮
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到
何
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D****N
发帖数: 430 | 34 wow, 你们什么时候去拜访他？也带上我吧，这个作家其实是妹妹推荐的，我才看了一会
儿就乐得沉不住气了，心里想，“王小波要能活到七十多岁大概也会写这么一本自传吧。
。。”
谢谢你这个介绍啦，过两天有空了要去图书馆搬一堆他别的书。。。：）
都达
ｅ，
年某
ｅ
也有
”的
者，
写自
挺不
网站
哥（
作了
是观 |
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d****o
发帖数: 361 | 35 I don't know whether we are ever gonna realize this plan :P
Maybe I should really do that before leaving NYC.
Yeah he does remind me of Wang Xiaobo very much,
esp. the way he narrates, the way he describe things,
like everything is a joke that you shouldn't care,
that makes you so sad while laughing.
He's categoried into Sci-fi writer,
which doesn't really reflect the uniqueness of his writing.
IMHO, his sci-fi settings are just for the expression of his attitude,
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 40 有教徒这样问过我。
我的回答是：这个问题你搞反了。你应该问，如果死亡象征着永生的开始，那尘世间的
生活还有什么意义呢？
正是死亡的不可避免，才让人生变得有价值。The sense of impending doom makes us
what we are and gives meaning to our existence.
"Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by
an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Hea
ven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not
mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me.
It didn't hurt much. It wasn't... 阅读全帖 |
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