《陳寅恪與傅斯年》：讀書人與知識份子/Chen Yin-ke, Fu Si-nian: Intellectuals? Knowledgeable people?

曾有一個年代，讀書人不會自傲自己為知識分子，只知道自己很渺小，必須不斷求知，更必須要謙虛；曾有一個年代，讀書人開始自封知識分子，除了自我標榜，更是對自己的一種使命感，知道身為讀書人，讀聖賢書所為何事，知識分子四個字對自己而言是一種必須承擔的責任；曾經有一個年代，連不讀書的學生也自比知識份子了，只是因為他們一路補習，考上了某學校，就自認為是知識份子了，殊不知知識份子四字份量的重量並非一般人能承受。

有一個年代，以上這些都不是了。這個年代的人，連表面工夫都懶得作了，張口閉口就是錢，念書當然也是為了錢。這個年代對於知識的定義，早已狹窄到僅僅把學位的取得當成知是，甚至於連取得學位的意義，還要更加的窄化。越來越多所謂的學者，不求研究教學有意義，但求往錢看，用一些自己都解釋不清的術語，掩蓋空洞的學術內容，甚至不惜濫用自己的還有一點讓人尊敬的學術地位，自甘墮落，甘願為了一點蠅頭小利，去迎合商業利益，甚至昧著良心欺騙社會大眾。

說這個社會是禮教崩壞，或許太誇張了點，但說這社會是笑貧不笑娼，我想還算是比較接近事實。為國家未來貢獻心力芸芸已經沒甚麼人相信了，只要不做壞事，或是心中還知道做壞事不好，有一天得變好，就已經算及格了。這點可以參考王鼎鈞鼎公的大作《隨緣破密》"「生活在今天的世界上，我們還能希求甚麼呢？只要「不道德」能為道德服務，也就算是盛世了」


或許這個年代的學生們，應該看看傅斯年是如何當好一個學生：學術能力冰冷扎實，關懷社會的心熱血激昂。

或許這個年代的老師們，應該看看陳寅恪是如何當好一個老師：心中想的不是如何錦衣玉食，而是真正的教學與培育。

《陳寅恪與傅斯年》：歷史與文學/Chen Yin-ke, Fu Si-nian: History and Literature

對一般人來說 ，歷史是固定印刷在課本上的，大概第一印象就是死背，第二印象就是無聊。對一般人來說 ，文學是刊在副刊上不想看的，大概第一印象就是字多，第二印象就是看無。
這本《陳寅恪與傅斯年》講的是文學家的歷史。糟了，這樣子誰要看阿？
拿到書的第一印象大抵如此，頗為出版社擔心，不過稍微翻了一下，卻越看越有趣，因為他不用歷史課本般教條式的灌輸（例如課本最愛的XX年間幾大OO家）。你在國文課本看到胡適之，魯迅，羅家倫，梁啟超，徐志摩，王國維，蔡元培這些人的文章，你只會想：為啥要放這些人的？

以陳寅恪與傅斯年兩位文學重鎮為軸心，貫串了整個從清末到中共建政這幾十年：看清朝末年傳統世族，如何從深耕科舉與經史子集的傳統文人，轉化成留學歐美的歷史語言學者；看上萬個麻袋的明清檔案國寶，如何歷經軍閥，北伐，抗日，內戰，兩岸分治，被偷，燒，轉賣，論斤賣廢紙，眾專家千辛萬苦保存，最後才有國家力量的介入；看知識分子與學術單位，如何在戰亂之下流離失所，向南京轉移，向長沙臨時大學轉移，向昆明西南聯大轉移；向戰亂之中，苟且保命已經不容易，還要顧及寶貴的書籍，文物，古代典籍檔案。


但歷史總是令人感慨其無情：傅斯年最後的日子貢獻給了台大，卻在接受省議員質詢台大相關事宜後，因高血壓病逝於台北。陳寅恪因為一些小事情繼續留在廣東中山大學，卻在風雲變色之後，遭到紅衛兵批鬥，無依無靠而終。

《陳》的大量考據加上巧妙鋪陳安排，讀來的感覺令人融入了這個時代，有點類似看"走向共和"的那種感覺。你以為你早就了解的民國初年文化人，其實還有更多人性化的一面，透過作者教科書一般的詳實考據，特別是把許多流傳已久的八卦納入，然後用更多資料去佐證或是駁斥八卦。讀來有時像故事，但看著一條條參考文獻時，更令人驚訝：這是真實發生過的人事物。

當然本書還是有一些努力空間，例如各篇雖然讀來津津有味，人物也躍然紙上，不過畢竟現代人的注意力有限，當人文課程的參考書籍時沒這個問題，但要當成讓人會想從頭看到尾的讀物時，負擔實在有點重，建議可以另外出一本導讀，一本不引經據典更加精簡的版本相信必能成為本書的敲門磚。

Photo Reference:
Wikipedia.com

(What-if) USSR Invaded France During WWII...

What if USSR invaded France during WWII? OK. we know that the Third Reich is sitting between them, and it has beaten one and almost beaten another. However, if we draw France and USSR together and fight, what will happen? (uh, sounds like a Red Alert mission...) Image it:
Near the Ligne Maginot (Maginot Line), a Soviet commissar (political officer) announces to soldiers with a speaking trumpet:

The one with the rifle shoots!
One out of two gets a rifle.
The one without follows him!
When the one with the rifle gets killed, the one who is following
picks up the rifle and shoots!

Next to the Ligne Maginot, the Soviet soldiers line up and stare at the line...the speaking trumpet announces again:

Soldiers of the glorious Red Army, from now on...
it is either victory or death!
Those who retreat will be shot.
There will be no mercy For cowards and traitors!

The Soviet attack starts (Uraaaaaa!!!!)... and frustrated.
Soviet soldier A:

It's hopeless, comrades.
Get back!

Soviet commissar:

In the name of the Soviet Union, not a step backwards, or we shoot.
No retreat! Not a step back!
No mercy!
Deserters will be shot.

Soldiers keep retreating.
In order to motivate them, Soviet commissar said:

Fire!
Shoot the traitors!
Cowards will be shot!
No mercy for cowards!

Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da...


10 Minutes later, French armor vehicle broadcasts to the corpse mountain :

Russians, surrender.
You will see your home again.
This is not your war.
Join your French comrades,
They understand your suffering...
and will care more for you than your own officers,
who are only sending you to your death.

La Troisième République (The French Third Republic) is not your enemy.
The enemy is blood thirsty Stalin And his Bolshevik camp,
who have stolen your land, who have deported your father-

OK I admit it's boring...



PS: the photo above is the "real" Vasily Zaytsev

Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev

Globus's Europa

From Agincourt to Waterloo
阿金谷(1415，英法) 滑鐵盧(1815)
Poitiers and then Anjou
普瓦捷(732法蘭克-伊斯蘭/1355英法) 安茹(1421，英法)
The Roses War, the Hundred Years
薔薇戰爭（1453-1487，英國內戰） 百年戰爭(1337-1453，英法)
Through battlefields of blood and tears
From Bosworth Field to Pointe Du Hoc
波斯沃之戰(1485，英國內戰) 奧克角(1944，諾曼地登陸)
Stalingard and the siege of York
史達林格勒(1942-1943) 約克包圍戰(1644，英國內戰)
The bloody turf of Gallipoli
加里波利(1915，滿分上邱吉爾下)
Had no effect on the killing spree
Bannockburn to Austerlitz
班諾克本(1314，蘇格蘭獨立) 奧斯特裡茨（1805，三皇會戰）
The fall of France and the German blitz
法國淪陷（1940) 閃電戰(1939-)
The cruelest of atrocities
Europa's blood is borne of these
Heaven help in all our battles
Heaven see love, heaven help us
Bolshevisks and feudal lords
布爾什維克黨
Chivalry to civil wars
Fascist rule and genocide
Now we face the rising tide
Of new crusades, religious wars
Insurgents imported to our shores
The western world, gripped in fear
The mother of all battles here
Heaven help in all our battles
Heaven see love, heaven help us

All glory, all honor
Victory is upon us
Our savior, fight evil
Send armies to defend us

Empires built, and nations burned
Mass graves remain unturned
Descendants of the dispossessed
Return with bombs strapped to their chests

There's hate for life, and death in hate
Emerging from the new caliphate
The victors of this war on fear
Will rule for the next thousand years

All glory, all honor
Victory is upon us
Our savior, fight evil
Send armies to defend us
Europa, Europa
Find better days before us
In kindness, in spirit
Lead us to a greater calling
Europa, Europa
Find better days before us
In kindness, in spirit
Lead us to a greater calling

Lennigrad, Berlin wall
列寧格勒(1941-1944) 柏林圍牆(1961-1990)
March on Rome, Byzantium's fall
進軍羅馬(1922，墨索里尼） 東羅馬帝國滅亡（1453，君士坦丁堡陷落）
Lightning war, Dresden nights
閃電戰 德勒斯登轟炸（1945，英/美空軍）
Drop the bomb, end this fight!
Never again!

GOOGLE CHINA/谷歌

I love to Google, but I really don't like the company Google China (谷歌). When mentioning google something, we simply say we "GOOGLE" it, or "估狗" it (the approximate pronunciation of google). "狗" means dog, and some people even say we "release the dog to search it for me".

However, Google China doesn't think above two common term works for them. They arbitrarily "invented" a no-one-uses-it "谷歌" (songs in a valley). They may think the term is appropriate than dog. However, for Google Taiwan they just plainly brand them "Google Taiwan" instead of inventing something completely stranger.

Moreover, the worst thing for Google China is it helps the PROC [1] to censor the information in Mainland China. When you enter "六四" (6/4, Tiananmen Square Massacre) in Google.com, it will return normal information about the incident. (related wikipedia, photo, youtube, blog...). However, if you do the same thing at GOOGLE.CN, it will never return any information about the incident- all you get is irrelevant information.At the bottom of the search, Google China will tell you "据当地法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示" (some of the search results are not shown in accordance with local regulations and policies".

Personally I am not pro or con about the incident. However, people deserve to know what others talk, write, think. If the government did the right thing, there is nothing to hide, right?

[1] People's Republic of China, communist mainland China. They are usually confused with ROC-Republic of China, which is actually TAIWAN

[2] http://blog.taragana.com/n/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/google-china.png

Convert PDF to Word File / 把PDF轉換成WORD

If you work in an office, or you are familiar with word processing, then you must already know how to convert a word file into a .pdf file very well. Usually this is done through a virtual "PDF printer", therefore you can virtually "print" any document as a decent PDF file. However, if the process needs to go backwards, it's really painful- basically it's only one way doc-2-pdf. When you try to copy-paste from pdf to a doc file, you will surely lost all the format, and just gives you some awkwardly arranges texts. You may need to start from the scratch in your word.

(I am not sure if full version acrobat works, but I don't want to pay for it)

And I found a good site:
http://convertpdftoword.net/Default.aspx

which allows you to upload a PDF (converted by word, I assume), and returns you a decent .doc file that keeps almost all the original format.

新天鵝堡 / Schloss Neuschwanstein

新天鵝堡(亦稱新天鵝石城堡)是位於德國巴伐利亞西南方，距離菲森（Füssen）鎮約4公里，靠近離德國與奧地利邊界。
不過，和一般對於城堡的印象不同的是，該城堡興建於十九世紀，距今天其實不到兩百年。該城堡為巴伐利亞國王路德維希二世的行宮之一，總共有360個房間，不過該國王在1886年逝世而未完成所有內裝。
這座城堡特別在哪裡?因為這座城堡可說是知名度最高的城堡之一，連迪士尼樂園灰姑娘城堡都參考其造型，而迪士尼樂園的LOGO也同樣參考該城堡的外型

見維基百科:Schloss Neuschwanstein

The palace has appeared in several movies, and was the inspiration for
Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park and for the Cinderella Castles
at the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neuschwanstein_Castle_LOC_print_rotated.jpg

http://bestpricevilla.com/Disneyland%20Logo.jpg

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neuschwanstein_Castle_LOC_print_rotated.jpg

香港話猜猜看

猜猜看這些是甚麼意思：
- 沙展/士多/的士/打的/
多士/士的士擔/貼士/
-花臣/OT/206/
- 波/呔/
- 柯打/巴仙/梳化/

還有經典的:"法士蔔/昔近蔔列丁蔔"





答案如下
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沙展＝Sergeant

士多＝Store

的（ㄉㄧ/）士＝Taxi
所以搭計程車＝打的（ㄉㄧ/）

多士＝toast

士的＝stick

士擔＝stamp

貼士＝tips

花臣＝fashion

OT＝檸檬茶
*0＝零＝檸
*T＝TEA＝茶

206＝熱檸檬可樂
*206諧音「熱檸樂」

波＝ball
*所以波霸是說「球」中之霸...

呔＝tie

柯打＝order

巴仙＝percent

梳化＝sofa

法士蔔昔近蔔列丁蔔（幼童初學各樣書籍發售的廣告）
法士蔔＝first book
昔近蔔＝second book
列丁蔔＝reading book?


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孫文：我要推動粵語成為國語！

沒成功。

眾人：呼...


Image reference
http://pic.nipic.com/