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故城的春天看树，远处朦胧新绿，烟雨濛濛。新城的春天听鸟，后院短唱低鸣，下雪如雨。 费明: 读那些世界上人人传诵的脍炙人口的经典：87版《红楼梦》36集，每集45分钟，共计1620分钟，有名有姓的人物同样有六十多口子，在177分钟的《教父》影片风靡的上百个国家中，有几个国家曾上演悲金悼玉的红楼梦？ 老杨说红楼 《父亲的草原母亲的河》听了不下百遍，常常听的泪流满面。为云飞的歌喉，为席慕容的乡情。更为了不起的神来之笔“河水在传唱着祖先的祝福，保佑漂泊的孩子找到回家的路。” Dan Robinson Oxford Lectures on Kant’s first critique of pure reason Dan Robinson, Oxford “On the Limits of Sensibility and Reason” What is the question? The question is, how far our knowledge can reach? The extent to which we can rely on our senses, and the extent to which we can rely on reason. Kant recognizes that the ultimate arbiter in matters of this kind has always been human rationality, but no one has taken the time to test the measuring instrument. That is, if the gold standard for whether an argument succeeds or not is rationality itself, one has to assess the instrument. How good a thermometer is it? ...

Albert Camus: Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. Peter Coviello: Maybe don’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani For some time I’ve been saying that the storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism. They are obviously and consequentially different barbarisms — one had reproductive freedom, vaccines, and trans health care in it, at least for a while — and I can tell you why I have sincerely preferred one to the other. But we oughtn’t to kid ourselves. From the perspective of a world of increasingly unimaginable maldistribution of resources, cascading ecological collapse, a genocide cheered on by a putatively liberal order, both are barbarisms. Mamdani seemed to me a small glimmering break in the wall of all that. A part of me wanted to do him a solid. ...

Two mini-stories: water-bottle In a library. Put my water bottle on the foutain stand and went into the restroom. Upon returning, my water bottle was gone. While I have left it this way many many times, the water bottle always stays there without leaving. Where is it? I went outside and saw a man leaving. Ran to him and saw my water bottle in his hand. “Excuse me, that water bottle is mine.” “Oh, I thought somebody lost it.” ...