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Herman Hesse the Pilgrim

Herman Hesse, the author of "Siddhartha", 1946 Nobel laureate, and most importantly, an orientalist. He is now the candidate for my new 沧海级 idol, so-called "Hesse the Pilgrim", together with "SuShi the Happy Genius, Hugo the Supreme Humanist and the Astounding Russell".
But sometimes I feel that his books are literally, well, symbols, which may be [...]


Bertrand Russell-A history of western philosophy

我家罗素同学这书也太逗了...摘抄一下...他说卢梭和尼采那段我都不行了...it's hard to take them seriously ever since...
有没有人看过卢梭的忏悔录, 我以前看的可真是对他这个人无语了, 居然有这种男人...a unshamefully candid coward啊. "He is willing to sacrifice liberty for the sake of equality".
不知道下面一段说Marxism的商务的中文版是不是删了?
The jewish pattern of history,past
and future,is such as to make a powerful appeal to oppressed and
unfortunate at all times.St Augustine adapted this pattern to
Christianity,Marx to socialism.To understand Marx psychologically,one
should use the following [...]


倪湛舸

[八月狂想曲]中的玫瑰是个好例子。有趣的是,这玫瑰仿佛曹雪芹笔下的王熙凤,“未见其形,先闻其声”,首先出现在片中孩子们的歌声(舒伯特[少年看见野玫瑰])里。我的印象中,玫瑰正式“出场”于纪念核爆死难者的乡间灵台,摄像机忽然下沉去拍一队爬行的蚂蚁,然后跟着蚂蚁摇上一株绿茎,终于,鲜红的玫瑰豁然入目,让人恍然大悟:虽然大苦难(核爆)中命若蝼蚁,而我们这些卑微的东西却总向往并追求着玫瑰般美好的理想。唉,当时一下子就热泪盈眶,真是不动声色的煽情啊。没想到黑泽明还不善罢甘休,竟让玫瑰在片尾再现。那时正值风狂雨骤,神志不清的老奶奶误以为回到了四十五年前的核爆日,于是撑着小黑伞要赶往山后的长崎去救亲人,正跌打滚爬着,手中伞被风掀成了喇叭。黑泽明老奸巨猾地掐掉风雨声,在片刻的寂静(又是“空”的运用)后换上了童声合唱的[少年看见野玫瑰]――老奶奶手中的破伞顿时等同于玫瑰,而玫瑰所象征的理想则更为鲜明起来,这原来是有关救赎的理想,虽然微小而残破
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