Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
-- W. B. Yeats, the stolen child, 1886
Writing and reading about Fairies some may deem to be mark of a trifling turn of mind. On this subject … dulce est desipere in loco. (It is sweet to be silly in places.) – Thomas Keightley, the world guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and other little people
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ―- Francis Bacon, The Essays
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
investing
- 20260731: Friday Reedit downs a lot because of its earning on Thursday after hour. buy the big drop in the early morning, we do not know when it reaches the lowest, must be multiple buys Then it rebounds a lot that Friday later and next two days for $157 and $162 in August.
- 20260804: Palantir reports its earning after hour. buy before the market close. it’s a bet on its great result, we may be wrong for this.
- 20260805: SHOP reports its Q2 earning in the morning before hour, it reaches its high around US$159.5 and downs and ups to around US$145. It’s about $124 yesterday. It’s up more than 20% but it does not last. anything could happen.
notes
I don't have all the answers
To the troubles of the day
But neither did all our ancestors
And they persevered anyway
When I see a little baby
Reaching out its arms to me
I remember why I'm workin' on a world
I may never see
聂绀弩，散宜生诗
龚定庵说得好：“诗与人为一，人外无诗，诗外无人”（《书汤海秋诗集后》）
“五十便死谁高适，七十行吟亦及时。气质与诗竞粗犷，遭逢于我未离奇。老怀一刻如能遣，生面六经匪所思。我以我诗行我法，不为人弟不人师”（《答钟书》）
聂绀弩生前认为可相对谈诗的舒芜则评道：“聂诗乃是‘异端’的高峰”,“以杂文入诗，创造了杂文的诗，或诗体的杂文，开前人未有之境。”
“一鞭在手矜天下，万众归心吻地皮”（《放牛》）
“男儿脸刻黄金印，一笑心轻白虎堂”（《林冲题壁》）
“天寒岁暮归何处，涌血成诗喷土墙”（《林冲题壁》）
“青眼高歌望吾子，红心大干管他妈”《钟三四清归》
“文章信口雌黄易，思想锥心坦白难”（《挽雪峰》）
“昔时朋友今时帝，你占朝廷我占山”。（《钓台》）
聂老赠胡风诗道：“世有奇诗须汝写，天将大任与人担”
- 舒芜
几度风，几度雨，披风戴雨且徐行；一卷书，一支笔，担书荷笔走人生