Archive for July, 2009
Paul Celan – Fugue of Death
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall
we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night
drink it and drink it
we are digging a grave in the sky it is ample to lie there
A man in the house he plays with the serpents he writes
he writes when the night falls to Germany your golden hair Margarete
he writes it and walks from the house the stars glitter he whistles his dogs up
he whistles his Jews out and orders a grave to be dug in the earth
he commands us strike up for the dance (more…)
Kumarajiva
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009我忽然想起鳩摩羅什大師,他在一千六百年前留下的許多漢譯佛經( 如《金剛經》 ),被我們傳誦至今,成為漢傳佛教的根本要典。鳩摩羅什大師的父親雖是印度貴族,但他的母親是龜茲國王的妹妹,而且他生在龜茲長在龜茲,成年後還在龜茲弘法利生,乃不折不扣的龜茲人。龜茲就是現在新疆的庫車,若按今天的族群觀點看,鳩摩羅什大師其實是個維吾爾人。他的模樣,應該就像電視裏的「暴徒」,就像那些被人打倒在地的小販。如果他活在今天,我們該看到他的那一種身份呢?
“屁民”
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Sharing and Sharing
Monday, July 20th, 2009… the demise of email sharing isn’t all that surprising considering that on the whole, social networking now has more reach than email worldwide. (more…)
“The River Sings And Sings On”
Monday, July 20th, 2009A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
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Not Just About Iran
Sunday, July 19th, 2009“News doesn’t break, it tweets.”
On the 49th Floor
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Old publishers never die; they just fade away.
Old and New Media
Monday, July 13th, 2009“Repurposing”
is
the word
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