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"There are, I suppose, times in all lives when concentrated attention to one problem, human, abstract, practical, seems to evoke a more than randomly distributed series of 'fortunate' encounters with related people, books, ideas. This may be a phenomenon related to the apparently concentric scratches on George Eliot's metaphorical mirror, which seem to gather round the candle and self-regarding gaze of the egoist

桓温平定成汉能写成前蜀…… 好离谱好基础的错误…… 还有胡灵太后难道不是汉人吗…… 即使有争议也应该援引前论吧……

Richard They do me wrong, and I will not endure it.

Who is it that complains unto the king

That I, forsooth, am stern and love them not?

By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly

That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.

Because I cannot flatter and look fair,

Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,

Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,

Richard They do me wrong, and I will not endure it.

Who is it that complains unto the king

That I, forsooth, am stern and love them not?

By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly

That fills his ears with such dissentious rumours.

Because I cannot flatter amd look fair,

Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive snd cog,

Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,

夢生，楚狂和“我”的關係真叫人感動

this is quite good however i'm just... stylistically fatigued with nabokov or nabokov-influenced prose for now

Gibreel dreaming - watching Mahound in Jahalia somehow reminds me of the TV and Aquinas in The Doloriad

“他依然被人爱着！尽管他很不愿意被人所爱。”

I adore the onomatopoeias that convey the speech habits of the characters

"In a space no longer than it takes to open one's eyes she was back in her accustomed life, in a leap was transferred to daylight from darkness. And yet, as by the mere closing of eyelids, one can surmise a darkness stranger than any star has pierced, a darkness of no light which only the blind can truly possess, she knew that by a moment's flick of the mind she could levant into a personal darkness, an unknown

this compared to my chief and my regiment is kind of.. really bringing out how materially comfortable american soldiers are.

my ship taking me to places i wouldn't go with a gun

"Everard and Laura never reached that stage of familiarity with James which allows members of the same family to accept each other on surface values. Their love for him was tinged with awe, the awe that love learns in the moment of finding itself unavailing."

Everard I know what you are...

What I come to read when my heart feels wrinkly and tired

“下棋和赢棋需要注意力的高度集中。在梁朝宫廷诗人看来，对每一个瞬间之思绪也就是‘一念’的全神贯注，都可以具体化为精工细刻的诗篇，而每一首诗都代表了诗人对物象之色与空的聚精会神的观照。那么，是不是真的像是严厉的唐代史臣或者宋代儒生所宣判的那样，梁朝的覆灭乃是由君臣上下错置的注意力所造成的呢？在我看来，这只是一个神话，这一神话之所以产生，是由于道学先生总是在每一个历史事件中寻找‘道德教训’。他们的目标是教导当前的王朝不要重蹈覆辙，以求千秋万代维持王朝的统治。毫无疑问，如果一个人有意寻找某样东西，他总是会找到他所寻找的，只不过寻找得太热情了，这份热情常常会扭曲手头的证据和最后的结论。”

"Everything in nature submits to becoming something to be expected."

Aquilon and Serafica's story... It's beautiful but I do not understand the last part quite well

“[...] In my own case, when I come over Sophie's troubles again—her lack of eyebrows and love of thick cream—I not only go through the same agony and delight that my uncle did, but have to cope with an additional burden—the recollection I have of him, reliving his childhood with the help of those very books. I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. Its reflection fills the

“陆杲擅长书画，是虔诚的佛教徒，三十卷《沙门传》的作者。他现存的唯一作品是《系观世音应验记》，包括69个关于观世音神通应验的故事。陆杲作于499年的序言叙述了这一故事集的起源。最早收集这一类故事的人是东晋的谢敷，谢敷把这些故事送给了傅瑗，这些故事在399年的孙恩之乱中丢失了。傅瑗的儿子傅亮后来根据记忆复写下来数条。这就是最初的《观世音应验记》。接下来，张融父亲的一个堂兄弟张演又写下十条作为续集，也就是《续观世音应验记》。在序言中，张演声称对观世音的崇拜是家族传统。据《南史》记载，张淹（？—466），张融的兄弟，陆杲的舅舅，是一个狂热的佛教徒，曾经强迫手下属吏焚烧手臂以供养佛祖，还命令犯法者都必须以拜佛作为惩罚，有时甚至要拜数千次。”

The restraint and tenderness with which Nabokov writes about his mother is quite moving... Interesting that his mother might have had some influence in his sensitivity and interest in nature:

I'm rather in love

Immediately hooked... I sense it to be (yet another) magnetic book by STW

连襟文学

WAIT THE TEA...... OMG WHAT