Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:53:29 AM
tie a Knot in the Equator
When Ted Hughes finished training college, he became a teacher in a primary school. His favourite subject was geography, because he had always wanted to travel, and he studied various parts of the world so that he could feel as if he knew them a little.
Ted liked children, and was always ready to have a joke with them, so they learnt a lot from him while at the same time having fun.
One September, he was having his first lesson with a class of boys and girls, and to start with he decided to ask them some general questions, so that he could see how much they already knew. He found that this was about the average for their age, and that some of the boys and girls had obviously heard that he enjoyed a joke and were ready to have some fun with him.
"Where's Turkeyl?" Ted asked the first boy.
"Turkey, sir?" the boy answered. "You'll find it on the Christmas dinner table, sir!"
"Very funny!" said Ted with a smile, while the class laughed loudly. "Do you really know where it is?"
The boy did, in fact, know. "Part of it is in Southeast Europe and part in Asia, sir," he said.
"Good," said Ted. The next few pupils also had funny answers to Ted's questions, but they all knew the correct answers too.
Ted knew that there was one girl in the class who was very clever. She had entered the school on a scholarship that term, and it was her he turned to next.
"Well," he said, "now let's see if there's at least one of you who doesn't talk nonsense<注2>. What is the equator<注3>?"
"It's an imaginary line drawn round the earth equally distant from the North Pole and the South Pole, sir," the girl answered at once.
"Good," Ted said. "Very good." But it sounded to him as if the girl had learnt this by heart,<注4>so he asked her another question to see whether he was right or not.
"Now, do you really know what that means?" he asked. "Could you, for example, tie a knot<注5> in the equator?"
The class laughed, but she answered, "Yes, sir."
"Oh, really?" Ted said with a smile.
"Yes, sir," the girl said. "As the equator's an imaginary line, you could tie an imaginary knot in it."
This time Ted joined happily in the class's loud laughter.
Friday, July 23, 2010 3:47:59 PM
相忘于江湖 ——风约湘裙
隔一程山水,你是我不能回去的原乡,与我坐望于光阴的两岸。
彼处桃花盛开,绚烂如满天凄艳的红霞,你笑得从容,而我却仍在这里守望,落英如雨,印证我佛拈花一笑的了然。爱,如此繁华,如此寂寥。
起身,然后落座,知道与你的缘分,也只有这一盏茶而已。结局早已先我抵达,蛰伏于五月的一场雨,十分钟,或许不够一生回忆,却足以使所有年华老去。
五月的天空泼满青釉,你瓷青的衣襟在风里飘拂。阳光遍地,你信手一捧,放进我手里,说:“我爱你!”三字成谶,我被你一语中的。从此,沉重的枷锁背负在我每个梦境,明知无望,却固守着仅存的坚持,以为,终究可以将你守候成最美的风景。
若青春可以作注,我已压上一切筹码,只待你开出一副九天十地的牌九,示我以最终的输赢。谁知,你竟中途离开,衣袖随长风斜过,拂乱了赌局。无人坐庄,这一局牌宛如三月桃花,错落于五月的湖面,飘散了满湖的灰飞烟灭。
遂重新审视命运,看它如何写就这一段际遇。暮色四合,天边的浮云已渐暗。人走,茶亦凉,有明月,照你的背影涉水而过,十丈红尘饰你以锦绣,千朵芙蓉衣你以华裳,而你竟无半点回顾,就这样,轻易穿越我一生的沧桑。
摊开手掌,阳光菲薄,一如你的许诺。太爱你,所以希望你以许诺勾兑眼泪,以永恒明见柔情,却不曾料到,岁月将你的微笑做了伏笔,只待风沙四起,尘埃遍野,便折戟扬刀,杀一个回马枪,陷我于永无翻身之日的险境。
没有狂歌当哭的勇气,却在倒地时明心见性,瞥见万里风沙之上,有人沉腕拨镫,疾书一行字:相忘于江湖。朱砂如血,触目惊心。
忘,谈何容易?烟水亭边,你用青色丝绦绾就了我的心结,江南的水光潋滟了你的眼,你已是我一生的水源,润我干涸的视线,柔我冷硬的心痂。忘记你,不如忘记我自己。
而夜幕,依旧如期降临,严冬的风替换曾经的三月烟花,举目四望,偌大的桌边只我一人,空对一盏冰冷的茶。 竟是不能不忘。
也罢,且学你拂袖而去,菩提树下觅一方青石,静待,看沧海变桑田。
你已到达彼岸,水草丰美,桃花怒放,便是落雨,也有一番风细柳斜的心事。我只能做到起身离席,却仍无法与你同步。其实,又何曾与你同步过?一盏茶的爱,终我一生,也只有这一盏茶的温度,由暖而凉,片刻而已。
你抬手落笔,转折勾挑出青春的天书。我是你无法辨识的狂草,短短一行,被你飞快地写下,翻过。再提起,只怕也要在多年以后,由阔达的魏体悄然重写,方可看清,当初的挥毫泼墨,竟是如此轻易,如此不堪。
回忆若能下酒,往事便可作一场宿醉。醒来时,天依旧清亮,风仍然分明,而光阴的两岸,终究无法以一苇杭之。我知你心意。 无须更多言语,我必与你相忘于江湖,以沧桑为饮,年华果腹,岁月做衣锦华服,于百转千回后,悄然转身,然后,离去。
Friday, July 9, 2010 3:35:59 PM
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days gaoby and weeks rush on.
And before I know it,a year is gone.
For life is a swift and terrible race
She knows I like her just as well.
In the days when i rang her bell
And she rang mine...
If we were younger then
And now we are busy,tired women
Tire of playing a foolish game,tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow,"i say,"i will call on Carol"
Just to show that I'm thinking of her.
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes.
and the distance between us grows and grows
Around the corner!----yet miles away.
Here is a telegran lady..."Carol died today!'
And that's what we get and deserve in the end...
If you love someone,tell them
Remember always to say what you mean
Never be afraid to express yourself
Take this opportunity to tell some one what they mean to you
Seize the day and have no regrets..
Most importantly,stay close to your friends and family.
For they have help
Make you the person that you are today
Pass this along to your friends.
Let it make a difference in your day and theirs
The difference between expressing love and having regrets
Is that the regrets may stay around forever