最後一集,兩人繼續遊走旺角,談及為何戰後這一區書檔旺盛。昔日的舊書攤,沒有精緻的裝潢、咖啡的香氣,卻能養活一代人;幫助一眾莘莘學子之餘,又凝聚了一群愛閱讀的人,在此地埋下文化的種子。
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新聞自由
新聞自由當然有好有壞,但肯定的是,新聞沒有自由的話,就只有壞處。
—阿爾貝.卡繆(法國哲學家、作家及新聞工作者)
“A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.”
—Albert Camus, French philosopher, author and journalist
擁抱 III
我可以愛人
可以愛一個人
可以愛好多人
我更可以去愛自己
懦夫最危險
懦弱的領袖是最危險的人。
—茱莉亞,史提芬京「穹頂之下」
“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
—Julia, in the novel Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King
建立科學
科學是事實積的,一如房子是石頭蓋的;但堆積的事實並不成科學,一如堆積的石頭並不是房子。
—亨利.龐加萊(法國數學家、理論物理學家及科學哲學家)
“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
—Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science
「他又不是人,他抵死!」
當我們把對手非人化和妖魔化,我們等於放棄了和平化解彼此歧異的可能性,只想合理化對他們使用暴力。
—納爾遜.曼德拉(南非國父、反種族隔離革命家、政治家)
“When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.”
—Nelson Mandela, first president of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist and politician
彩虹指南
你曾經看見怎樣的彩虹
同溫層與異溫層
本來互聯網的偉大之處,在於人們突然能夠消除所有障礙,在任何地方與任何人交流。但實際情況是,單一趨勢被放大至佔領整個國家。
—克里斯多福.懷利(加拿大數據顧問,劍橋分析公司前研究總監及吹哨者)
“What was supposed to be so brilliant about the internet was that people would suddenly be able to erode all those barriers and talk to anyone, anywhere. But what actually happened was an amplification of the same trends that took hold of a country’s physical spaces.”
—Christopher Wylie, Canadian data consultant, former Cambridge Analytica Research Director and whistleblower
「我們最自由了!」
自以為自由但實際上並不自由的人,才是最受奴役的人。
—奧蒂莉日記摘抄,歌德「親和力」
“No one is more enslaved than the man who believes himself to be free and is not.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities, extracts from Ottilie’s diary
物欲
你被囚禁在自己的美好窩居裡,而那些曾為你所主宰的東西,如今反過來主宰你了。
—匿名主角,恰克.帕拉尼克「鬥陣俱樂部」
“Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
—Unnamed protagonist, in the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
不要讓貓知道你的傾慕
貓
並不需要你的傾慕
來證明自己的存在
友誼的起點
友誼始於一個人對另一個人說:「甚麼!你也是嗎?我還以為只有我呢……」
—C. S. 路易斯(英國作家及文學學者)
“Friendship…is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that on one but myself…’ ”
—C. S. Lewis, British writer and literary scholar
原始恐懼
人類最古老而強烈的情緒是恐懼,而最古老而強烈的恐懼,便是對未知的恐懼。
—洛夫克拉夫特(美國著名恐怖、科幻與奇幻小說作家)
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
—H.P. Lovecraft, American writer of horror, science and fantasy fiction
探訪
你好嗎
今天過得如何
有沒有甚麼想分享
【愛在左右】老有所依動物村 給毛孩晚年一個家
老有所依動物村由洪生和洪太兩夫婦於 2015 年成立,希望讓被人遺棄的老狗可以有安享晚年的地方,免於流離失所或被人道毀滅。動物村目前有 22 隻狗和一隻貓,平均年齡高達 14 歲。即使兩度經歷超強颱風,其中一次動物村甚至被嚴重吹毀,令洪先生在意外中重傷,兩人照顧狗狗的心卻絲毫沒有動搖,反而令他們對生命的價值更有體會,更珍惜陪伴狗狗的時間。
計量之重
並非每樣可計量之物都很重要,也不是每樣重要之物都可計量。
—威廉.布魯斯.卡麥隆(美國社會學家)
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
—William Bruce Cameron, American sociologist
空間
保持適當的空間
讓我們看見彼此的全貌
禮貌啲,生活好過啲
為了讓生活更美好,有時用一些非必要的詞語如「謝謝」或「請」是必要的。
—柯尼斯伯格(美國作家及插畫家)
“It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like ‘thank you’ and ‘please’ just to make life prettier.”
—E. L. Konigsburg, American writer and illustrator
戰爭與和平
戰爭總是常態,和平才是例外。
—蘇珊.桑塔格(美國作家、評論家及公共知識分子)
“War has been the norm and peace the exception.”
—Susan Sontag, American writer, critic, and public intellectual
借鑑歷史
我們可以借古鑑今,但也可以自欺欺人,選擇性地援古證今,來正當化我們早已下決心要做的行為。
—瑪格蕾特.麥克米蘭(加拿大歷史學家)
“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.”
—Margaret MacMillan, Canadian historian