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7th April, 2007, Mai Po – 22-02-2007 (Thu) 最近很喜歡跟一年級學生通電郵, 預備跟他們在這學期談詩, 評theories, 寫故事: 學習不只在廣大課堂, 知識不只幾篇文章藏. 不想把魚白白送給他們, 卻是引導他們手握魚竿善用資源． 有些同學跟我說不敢講英文, 怕不夠動聽. 不講怎會好? ‘Native’也好, 不’native’也好, 世界大同, 你的唇舌不比別人的短: 有信心, 讀對音, 甚麼難得到你? ‘Hong Kong English’難道不是English嗎? 外國人學也學不到! 從前爸爸每一年過新年都會說: ‘年關難過年年過’. 爸爸是百分百粗人, 可間中會說幾句精句. 一轉眼一年真的飛逝, 自己也老了. 今天早上救護車把爸爸送去醫院: 醫生說他血壓比平常人高出一倍; 我當然擔心. 兩個孖妹陪同爸爸左右,…
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This post was originally written on 23-06-2007 (Sat) 這些是從我家窗外拍得的窗照．還記得最初搬進這位於上環荷李活道的小房子時,感覺自己像進駐了驚嚇大師希治閣的電影 Rear Window 《後窗》的片場．但這裡亦同時點綴著一點點東歐的情懷, 因為這些窗讓我記起在波蘭克拉 科夫的短暫住處．我能清楚看到對面各家的一動一靜,卻怕自己的舉動也給全然窺探．日子久了才發覺對家的四口子早己習慣這種坦然的生活方式,只是有時會不覺意的看到我在把弄電視機的開關按鈕或是在書櫃中拿出一本本陳舊的詩集． 最近窗戶對面的其中一間房子搬進了一男一女, 他們可真讓我感到不自在. 男的總愛赤膊的站在窗前假裝整理著曬在窗旁的衣服． 我可不是特意在找不對勁的事宜,只是好幾次我的男朋友看到他時,他便猛然的把頭縮下, 露出烏黑的髮頂．女的也是動不動便把頭探出窗外東張西望, 似乎在密謀些甚麼要緊事． 我住的大厦有五層, 每層有兩個住戶． 我的neighbour是一個法國男人,有個我不能發音的名字．住在一二樓的全是老人家及他們的草根家人,夏天的時候走過他們的樓層都會聞到一陣異味．老人是這樣子的了．或許他們夏天都不會使用冷氣機,只會任由汗在流, 說他們環保也可以．其中一家的婆婆常會帶孫兒在街上吃白飯．她捧著白飯的雙手滿是深深的歲月印記．我老是跟自己說要把這情境寫進詩裡． 八月當我不在香港的時候, ‘包租婆’ 會給我的天台來個大翻新．這種唐樓真的需要不時維修! 聽傳聞說這一區域可能會給政府收買重建．千萬不要! 難道香港這小城市就容不下一點點的舊港風貌麼？ ––
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Moon is a great film. It reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Solaris (1972) and even Blade Runner (1982). The film centres on Sam Bell (played marvellously by Sam Rockwell), a miner living alone in a space station…
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by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho(This post was originally written on 14 February 2010.) . As many of you know, I am currently on a blog break. However, after seeing the National Theatre’s revival (actually, the return of the revival) of…
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This afternoon, my friend sent me this — a view from the window:
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I am very excited to have the opportunity to introduce Asymptote to Cha readers. Asymptote is a new journal dedicated to literary translation and is run by a team of talented people from different parts of the world — Singapore, Taiwan, Germany,…
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In Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (2005), Penelope,1 Odysseus’s oh-so-loyal and virtuous wife, is dead. Hell is her current domicile. That does not stop her from telling the readers, who live in the modern age…
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“You Have Never Written Better” by Benjamin Markovits |As Byron himself remarked, you couldn’t expect any verse to be all good.| “Some Sort of a Solution” by Charles Simic |he needed his small circle of friends, for they were his…
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Today, my friend sent me a smiley fox:
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“You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel” by Mark Greif |‘Think of me as a boy,’ the woman begs.| “Hysterical Vigour” by Frank Kermode |The title of this novel comes from the Chinese national anthem: Arise, ye who refuse…
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“At the Movies” by Michael Wood — A discussion of No Country for Old Man (directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) |It says he doesn’t understand what’s happening, of course; but it also says he doesn’t believe he doesn’t…
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“On Radio 4” by Peter Campbell |Not all interesting things are beautiful and not all beautiful ones are interesting.| “Did she go willingly” by Marina Warner |was [Helen] abducted by Paris or did she go willingly?| |John Lyly gives Helen…
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This post was originally written on 24th January, 2010. When we were having dinner with our friend Jonathan (also the prose guest editor of the second anniversary issue of Cha) in a Sichuan restaurant in Soho, London (by the way,…
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Parts of this post were first written on 28th January and 1st May, 2010. Updated and expanded on 18th November, 2010.Adam and Eve This is an image from the wonderful Ebstorf Mappamundi, a Medieval European map of the world created in…
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William Empson (1961) answers: Line references are to the nearest factor of five, because factor of ten are usually given in the margin of the text, and the eye can then find the place without further calculation. The show of…
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A.D. Nuttall (2003) answers: The word, I think, connotes a quality of completeness: at the lowest level, complete literacy (never a colon where a comma should be); complete, though not redundant documentation; complete accuracy even with reference to matters not…
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This post was originally written on 5th March, 2010. Last week, we went to see the West End transfer of Enron. The play, which was written by the promising young playwright Lucy Prebble and directed by the current it-boy of…
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Parts of this post were first written in March this year (9th March and 11th March). Revised on 17th November, 2010. Recently, I read Melanie Benjamin‘s Alice I Have Been (2009), which is a fictional account of the life of…
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This post was originally written on 6th March, 2010. One good thing living in London is that you can just take fancy and go to any number of museums, galleries, theatres whenever you want. Last Sunday, we went to the…
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This post was originally written on 20th September, 2009. Today, thanks to Sunday Times, we got free tickets to watch The Crimson Wing, a documentary about the lives of a million East Africa’s lesser flamingos. The film will be released…
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– The first edition of >Language >Place blog carnival is now live and is hosted by BluePrintReview‘s editor Dorothee Lang on her blog Virtual Notes. According to Dorothee: this blog carnival crosses borders, reflects on (m)other tongues, tells city stories, delves…
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The ScholarsBald heads, forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.All shuffle there, all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their…
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This post was originally posted on 18th July, 2009. – Today we went shopping in the upmarket neighbourhood of Chelsea. Our first stop was the famous John Sandoe Bookstore. The store, which sells new books, is absolutely packed, much more…
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