“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― from TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By Virginia Woolf, 1927
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感動我的 (28)：有偉大的愛，就永遠有奇蹟 （Willa Cather 胡適）。柯旗化《新英文法》第一出版社 《監獄島回憶錄》。 張則周教授 (黃武雄教授等人)創辦社區大學 1998.....。賀 張則周教授90歲、94歲.....。亞洲兩皇帝： 明治( Meiji )天皇 VS 朱拉隆功 (Chulalongkorn (Rama V) ) 同學羅時瑋在東海教過亞洲大都市......) 。新世代翻譯團隊：坦尚尼亞諾貝爾文學獎作家古納（Abdulrazak Gurnah）的作品，因而需要成立自救會：宋瑛堂；翁尚均，何穎怡。Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism | Met Exhibitions 林之助；陳其寬 。 台鐵 VS 高鐵 高田 好胤（たかだ こういん、1924年（大正13年）3月30日 - 1998年） 薬師寺 東塔
By the Sea By Abdulrazak Gurnah.
精彩。幸運的小學生，有緣遇到代課老師畫地圖教哥倫布之夢……
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紀念謝立沛老師：By the Sea By Abdulrazak Gurnah. 德國、比利時壯遊 (謝立沛、謝偉強、鍾漢清，1991年7月) Bruges, Belgium、不萊梅、格林兄弟的故鄉哈瑙、Kassel: 、漢堡；柏林、 Sanssouci in Potsdam、比利時布魯日、布魯塞爾、
感動我的 (28)：有偉大的愛，就永遠有奇蹟 （Willa Cather 胡適）。柯旗化《新英文法》第一出版社 《監獄島回憶錄》。 張則周教授 (黃武雄教授等人)創辦社區大學 1998.....。賀 張則周教授90歲、94歲.....。亞洲兩皇帝： 明治( Meiji )天皇 VS 朱拉隆功 (Chulalongkorn (Rama V) ) 同學羅時瑋在東海教過亞洲大都市......) 。新世代翻譯團隊：坦尚尼亞諾貝爾文學獎作家古納（Abdulrazak Gurnah）的作品，因而需要成立自救會：宋瑛堂；翁尚均，何穎怡。Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism | Met Exhibitions 林之助；陳其寬 。 台鐵 VS 高鐵 高田 好胤（たかだ こういん、1924年（大正13年） - 1998年） 薬師寺 東塔
Suella Braverman had criticized London’s police for not banning a pro-Palestinian protest march. Mr. Cameron, the former prime minister, will be foreign secretary.
A Swift, Opinionated Portrait of Willa Cather (She Would Have Approved)
“Chasing Bright Medusas,” a new biography by Benjamin Taylor, aims not to uncover new facts but to provide a concise introduction to the novelist.
Willa Cather “believed in luck, particularly her own, and believed in the luck-making power of desire,” Benjamin Taylor writes in his biography of the writer. “She had a destiny, devoutly believed in; she swept aside impediments; her goals were vividly before her.”Credit...Getty Images, via Bettmann Archive Share full article
有偉大的愛，就永遠有奇蹟。Where there is great love, there are always mircles.
Others might interpret her life’s journey differently, but a portrait this succinct relies on such sharp generalizations. Brevity exposes a writer’s attitudes; selection and emphasis — I’m thinking here especially of Willa Cather’s fiction — are everything. In a famous 1922 essay, “The Novel Démeublé,” she wrote: “Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed.”
Cather stated her credo of fiction most forcefully in her essay “The Novel Demeuble” (1922), meaning “The Unfurnished Novel.” The title refers to her idea that the best fiction does not merely “catalogue” the furniture of life—physical things, processes, and sensations—but selects such details carefully to “present [ ...
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The beating heart of this book isn’t Taylor’s use of the letters, though, but his sure-handed sense of how to shape a propulsive narrative, which aligns with Cather’s own methods. Think of her daring structural leaps in “The Professor’s House.” It takes real confidence, as well as real depth of knowledge, to see clearly the territory of such a complex life and mass of work, and to decide what must be touched on and what must, sadly, fall by the side. Some scholars may take issue with what Taylor chose to include or omit, but for the rest of us — whether new to Cather’s fiction, or longtime fans curious about her life — this is the perfect introduction.
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Whisking through the decades, Taylor propels us from Cather’s birth in Northern Virginia to her family’s move in 1882, when she was 9, to rural Nebraska. From there, it’s on to the town of Red Cloud and through her first years as a wildly talented college student, “acting and dressing more like a boy than a girl, cropping her hair short, going to class in starched white shirts and suspenders, and affecting a low voice,” at the then new University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Willa Cather
Cather in 1936
Born
Wilella Sibert Cather December 7, 1873 Gore, Virginia, U.S.
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