老曹與我草稿、老年與幸福 Aging and Happiness: 11月 2018

2018年11月28日星期三

Henry Miller 的 "80歲感言" On Turning Eighty 的摘句有趣。

我今四十餘，從此終身閒。若以七十期，猶得三十年。
卷429_33 「游悟真寺詩（一百三十韻）」白居易　

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Henry Miller 的文集，可在中國出版社找到。
今天注意到港版Taipei People封面有他的讚美。去Wikipedia 讀他的簡介，"80歲感言" On Turning Eighty 的摘句有趣。

Here in my opinion is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Even if that is objected to as an overstatement, it will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.[37]

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Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) "80歲感言" On Turning Eighty；Taipei People；

Henry Miller 的文集，可在中國出版社找到。今天注意到港版 Taipei People 封面有他的讚美。去Wikipedia 讀他的簡介，"80歲感言" On Turning…

2018年11月25日星期日

您卻還要自命為青年嗎？

2015年11月26日下午4:07

大法官：您的身上已經寫滿了老年的字樣，您還要把您的名字登記在少年人的名單裡嗎？您不是有一雙昏花的眼、一對乾癟的手、一張焦黃的臉、一把斑白的鬍鬚、兩條瘦下去的腿、一個胖起來的肚子嗎？您的聲音不是已經嗄啞，您的呼吸不是已經短促，您的下巴上不是多了一層肉，您的智慧不是一天一天空虛，您的全身每一部分不是都在老朽腐化，您卻還要自命為青年嗎？啐，啐，啐，約翰爵士！(朱生豪譯、吳興華校)

William Shakespeare

2015年11月26日上午7:10

eek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly?
Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double,
your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity, and will you yet call yourself young?
Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!"
--Lord Chief Justice from "The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth" (Act I, Scene II)

2018年11月22日星期四

'Too Late', William Lindsay Windus, 1858

'Too Late', William Lindsay Windus, 1858 | Tate

www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/windus-too-late-n03597

Windus emphasises the woman's unhealthy appearance by contrasting her pale clothes, lank hair and pinched features with those of her ringletted, rosy-cheeked companion. She is clearly agitated by the appearance of her lover, who hides his face in shame, symbolising his deceit.

Too Late - William Lindsay Windus — Google Arts & Culture

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/too-late/5AGg417aRYWh8w

This painting was originally exhibited with a quotation from Alfred Tennyson's poem Come not when I am dead. The woman on the left is dying of consumption ...

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/too-late/5AGg417aRYWh8w

'I wished I loved more.'"「餘年集」

剛讀點吳魯芹的「餘年集」，有點不習慣，因為他談的是花甲之年退休的成就。現在，須推出「九十幾」的，談悔，談憾，才有點說服力，才容易心服。
不過，「愛」人這回事，與年歲無關。永遠都不要怕說出我愛你。

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"When I asked one person, 'Do you wish you accomplished more?' He responded, 'No, I wished I loved more.'"

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What Do 90-Somethings Regret Most? – Youth, Now – Medium
A popular theory about happiness claims we experience it most in youth and old age, with a dip in the middle for "middle-age-misery." My interviews with 90-somethings paint a very different picture.