休·杰克曼演一个勋爵的儿子,不像。勋爵的儿子少有这么英俊漂亮的。而且,他们好多都没钱了,连家里祖传的老古堡都供不起。另外,他口口声声说自己生长条件优越啊,父亲的产业啊,自己的公司啊,真正具备这些的人是不会将它作为话题说起来的,就像我们,介绍自己时,很少提起:我是黑头发,我是黑眼珠啊。It's a given.
不过,看电影的时候一直想提醒斯佳丽·乔汉森:get the man, forget about the rest. 当个好记者、写个好故事难道那么重要吗,碰上这样的大帅哥,我这样没出息的,早丧失革命立场了。:)
两句好玩的伍迪·艾伦台词:
I don't need to work out. My anxiety acts as aerobics.
I was born into the Hebrew persuasion, but when I got older I converted to narcissism。
"Into this universe, and why not knowing, Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing, And out of it, as wind along the waste, I know no whither, willy-nilly blowing."
【有待旁证】美男计:Wiki: He seduced the wife of a Russian minister to obtain information about German weapons shipments to Russia.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/sydney_reilly/5.html: Things seemed to be going extremely well for Reilly, especially in his love life. In February 1915, Reilly married long-time lover Nadine (Nadezhda) Zalessky, 29, a Jewish Ukrainian national of Swiss ancestry who was considered to be a great intellect and beauty. Reilly was charmed not only by her physique and intellect but also by her close ties with prominent Russian officials, which would prove beneficial in his line of work.
(更有趣的一条事实:伏尼契婚前名Ethel Lilian Boole,她老爹是著名数学家George Boole. 不知道 George Boole, 不过,却知道 Boolean, Boolean么,就是从他而来。:))
中国人知道伏尼契,却基本上全都是因为革命经典《牛虻》。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gadfly
agent employed by the British Secret Intelligence Service — met Ethel Voynich in London in 1895. Ethel Voynich was a significant figure not only on the late Victorian literary scene but also in Russian émigré circles. Lockhart claims that Reilly and Voynich had a sexual liaison and voyaged to Italy together. During this scenic tarriance, Reilly apparently "bared his soul to his mistress," and revealed to her the story of his strange youth in Russia. After their brief affair had concluded, Voynich published in 1897 her critically acclaimed novel, The Gadfly, the central character of which, Arthur Burton, was allegedly based on Sidney Reilly's own early life.[1] However, Andrew Cook, a noted biographer of Reilly, disputes Lockhart's romanticized version of such events to be doubtful and counters instead that Reilly was perhaps informing on Voynich's radical, pro-émigré activities to William Melville of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.[2]
手头还有一本 Michael Kettle 的 The True Story of the World's Greatest Spy: Sidney Reilly, 希望故事更有趣些。不过,到目前为止,在西德尼·莱利的自传里,既没有看到牛虻,也没有看到007 - Bond, James Bond. :)
http://www.sidneyreilly.com/ 这本书明白讲 Ian Flemming 是以他为原型写邦德的: The definitive biography of one of the most complex and remarkable characters in the 20th century history of espionage and the creator of a personal myth which still exerts a powerful grip on the imagination of today.
Sidney Reilly is credited with providing Ian Fleming with the inspiration for his character James Bond.
Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (January 27, 1806 – January 17, 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an exceptionally gifted composer who died at a young age.
不过,上面这段Wiki却没有提到,他的生日和莫扎特一样,莫扎特那一天应当是五十岁。
可惜,他们两个人的年龄加起来,也才五十多一点。 他的生命比莫扎特还要短,离二十岁还要差十天。
是早上上班路上听 Keith Lockhart 听到的。Keith Lockhart 每天早上八点半办他的 Keith's Classical Corner, 最近介绍的是“那是哪个音乐家”,介绍一些不太见经传的作曲家。今天正好是这个西班牙莫扎特。
Arthur Rubenstein 成了我的娜塔莎。:) 我拥有的CD不多,其中一张,就是他弹的肖邦。于是,听着肖邦,读着Arthur Rubinstein: My Young Years (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973),“儿子上床以后,老公上床之前”的那一个多小时,我成了真正的神仙。:)
鲁宾斯坦不喜欢小提琴;老爹会拉小提琴,给他买了一个,被他敲掉了,结果是他自己的脑袋挨敲。他也不喜欢诗——他号称诗是音乐的穷亲戚。鲁老头(当年的鲁小朋友)也真是的,这么风趣可爱:to me poetry was sham music, a sort of "music's poor relation." If one of the young girls in our family started decaiming poety (a fashion in those days) I would have nervous laughing spells and would have to leave the room.
"There is a Polish word, zal, a beautiful word, impossible to translate. It means sadness, nostalgia, regret, being hurt, and yet it is something else. It feels like a howling inside you, so unbearbale that it breaks your heart. (P10)"
这个zal, 让人想起一个土耳其词hüzün。Orhan Pamuk: the melancholy of Istanbul as hüzün
鲁宾斯坦写的这段历史我还比较熟悉。回头看,十九世纪末、二十世纪初,真是人类(起码是欧洲)艺术创造的黄金时代……不过,还是觉得鲁宾斯坦花在政治历史上的笔墨大了些,是 reading history backwards, 是成年的鲁宾斯坦事后诸葛亮地给童年鲁宾斯坦添油加醋。:)这些事件对他的命运真有那么大影响吗,当时的他,对这些事件真有那么大的感受吗。
和鲁宾斯坦并排的,是另外一本书, 也是自传,也是犹太人。Britain's Master Spy: The Adventures of Sidney Reilly. W同学推荐,然后去 abebooks 淘来的。心中愤愤,好像我们就是职业八卦篓子。:)对W说的八卦,我有些将信将疑,以我们正宗八卦帮的帮规,任何八卦,都必须要两个以上的证据互相对证,而且当事人自己的回忆录等等是最不可靠的,只能当 heresay, 不能当证据。
还真找到一本中文版的《牛虻》,我们是天生的反英雄主义者,《牛虻》的小说小时候见过,没读,只记得其中的木刻插图,手头这一本是95年出的,里边的插图,说不定是从旧版里翻印过来的。以我的“品味”,《牛虻》是政治小说,007是侦探小说,都不属于“文学”,在当年的我的心目中,地位甚至还不如琼瑶,琼瑶起码还有些少男少女的儿女情长,还可以让人偷偷跟着脸红心跳。:) 翻了翻书架上 Ian Flemming的原著们,字体老旧,文字平板,令人不忍卒读……007也就配拍拍电影而已。
昨天是“我爸妈”和“妈侃”最后一场辩论,我们还真看了,不过一边看,一边翻杂志。现如今的杂志都是在惨淡经营,这么好的杂志,一年也就十几刀,我一共订了好几份:Time, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, National Geographic,还有王瑞智免费寄赠的《万象》。惭愧惭愧,很多时候,只有时间翻翻时装广告和漫画。:)
最近一期的 Vanity Fair上居然有两篇好看的八卦,一篇是 Tony Curtis 写玛丽莲·梦露的,其实我本来并不知道 Tony Curtis 是谁,不过一看他的子女,才知道,原来他是 Jamie Lee Curtis的老爹,和玛丽莲·梦露一起拍过Some like it hot.
早晨慌慌张张带小朋友上学,小朋友看见草地上有亮晶晶的东西,问那是dew, 还是frost.然后就雀跃:yeah! It's gonna snow! We can have snow fights, build snow fortress, and I can go skiing!!!! I can't wait!!! 耶,要下雪了哎!我们可以打雪仗,堆雪城堡罗!我可以滑雪罗!我都等不及了!
Northanger Abbey was written by Austen in 1798, revised for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing the novel. The bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was already the author of four popular novels.
一本就是《与狼同奔的女人》(Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Women Archetype, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D). 学术论文,读起来不轻松。大意是,社会给女人规定的清规戒律,早已使她失去了她们的天性;与狼同奔,本来是女人的天性,然后人类社会的发展却约束了女性,迫使她们曲己逢人,使她们变得温和,非我。
最后一次试着去读Louisa May Alcott, 依旧还是没法读下去。和图书馆的 Special Collections 也约过,却再也提不起精神回访。其中最主要的一个原因,就是她的隐忍。她天生的野性受到了约束,自己也觉出了痛苦,对此她却不能诚实面对,反而为这样的尴尬寻找各种各样的遮蔽和借口。Little Women一书字里行间都透着虚假的温情——每个人都那么富于牺牲精神,大家又都是在为了什么东西在牺牲?——电影也显得矫揉造作。也许是我太 cynical了,对一百多年前的人们认认真真的挣扎缺乏应有的同情。