2016年3月28日 星期一

0329 2016 二

半夜,讀西西。香港的飽學文人。



中午,路口賣冰棒的老闆跟我打招呼。我有點訝異,他入冬收攤前都會跟我約明年見,不過,我忘記新生南路的台大側在施工 (只有台大勝利,因為校方趁勢將停在路旁二十多年的"台大號"捐血車,永遠請到大安公園旁去),所以他必須轉到我們這次。.....買完"文藝選粹" (台北:正中,1973)第一集,9百多頁,內有"世界作家對 總統的讚美"一篇,180元......我跟老闆買3根紅豆冰棒。他說,很快就會到對面樹蔭下賣,我說,很難說,我們這側花了數個月,還沒收尾.....



張華
我已把這段打下來:
The invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi meant suffering for all involved. Japan experienced humiliating defeat and serious casualties among its lordly class of daimyo (lit. "great names") and their bands of sanurai letainers. Japan would not return in force to Korea until its stunning victory in the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 enabled it to take over the pninisula without opposition. As a result of pouring men and money into aiding the Choson, the late Ming regine, already facing a financial emergency failed to withstand the Machu threat from the north a generation later. With their countryside and towns in ruins, Koreans naturally suffered the most. The toll on them can hardly be calculated, though the Japanese did their best. They kept track by cutting off the noses of Koren fatalities and packing them in salt tubs to be dispatched to Kyoto, where Hideyoshi's clerks counted tens of thousands in a given month. The contingent of warriors led by Nabeshima Katsushie (1580-1657), first lord of Hizen Province in Kyushu (modern Nagasaki prefecture), claimed credit in 1597 for garniering 5,444 noses in just five weeks.豐臣秀吉入侵朝鮮,對所有參與國都意味著痛苦和損失,日本貴族武士階級「大名」蒙受慘敗和嚴重傷亡。一直要到數百年後,一九○五年的日俄戰爭贏得驚人勝利,日本才再度以武力重返朝鮮半島──這一回日軍如入無人之境。中國方面,大量挹注人力與資金支援朝鮮的結果,亦使明末政權面臨採物告急的危機。一代之後,終於未能頂住'來自北方的滿族威脅,朝鮮自然受創最具:農村、城鎮一片焦土,經濟凋敝,損失慘重無法計算──在這方面日本人倒是頗為盡力:他們切下朝鮮死者的鼻子,醃在桶中送回京都,豐臣秀吉帳下的小吏一個月內便數了好幾萬隻,計算結果由九州地區的肥前藩(今長崎縣)歸品勝茂藩主統領的支隊,於一五九七年拔得頭籌,短短五周內蒐集了五千四百四十支鼻子。

我昨天讀那小段,有點訝異小讀者的標點用法。



"隨機"這種昔日"概率論"的名詞,近年開始出現,2016年 ALFA-GO 又來湊熱鬧,不過,它的"智慧"是"人工的"而已。
"隨機殺人",超乎我的知識和想像力,讓我在28日中午在7樓將目光移出台大校園之後的近山,那兒,"據說"是"軍事要地"。
看Herb Simon 1983年的"人類事務的理性",想做一專題。他生前,跟他談過921大地震,那時的社會事務中有""隨機殺人"嗎?有的,1995年的Oklahoma City bombing.....只不過,那是錯綜複雜的大國的事,而台北,只是一小城市.....
您的書,獻給老友;我們也須要:對理性的"信仰",對人間溫情的渴求。
To the Memory of
Jacob Marschak,
who had an unshakeable faith in
human reason, and unmatched
store of human warmth.

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