0218 2015 三 除夕

或許2點多睡；9點yy和小丸子來催人。
想過去訪親戚，今天不恰當。
打電話給謝老師，約明天11點半全國飯店2F.
這兩天hans都在全聯買自由和聯合報。
yy將BBC朗讀T. S. Eliot 的Four Quartets： 經驗要經意義鍛鍊始百年智慧that place to propose a series of ideas about spirituality and meaningful experience

I learned that the Board has past the resolution to maintain their previous decisions on Tang (suspense and termination). However, no announcement will be made at this moment. I shall stop here, too. 

Happy New Year.


Hans 貢獻老劉最近送的蠔油鮑魚+梨山茶+書

google 第1次建議改japan blog的廣告方式。
Windson Chen 新增了 3 張新相片。

曹興誠 (Bob )


弄台大圖書館的 W. Edwards Deming 部分藏書：想翻譯和弄Handbook

Blue的朋友說："超久沒搭公車都忘了要怎麼搭"
我想起約1990年，台灣杜邦公司的主管，包一節火車車廂往高雄園山飯店開會時，某位同事說了類似的話。(公司租了近百輛車給主管和業務開。)
2003年，我當彰化鹿港某公司顧問。有一次從彰化搭客運到鹿港。車站和客運車類似我童年時的，而中國許多新興城市都已近代化了。當時，悲從心來。

• The Man Shakespeare
• After having caused evil to arise from the very utility of its principle, competition again finds a way to extract good from evil; destruction en genders utility, equilibrium is realized by agitation, and it may be said of competition, as Samson said of the lion which he had slain: De comedente cibus exiit, et de forti dulcedo.

"ex forti dulcedo" (from strength comes sweetness). 
And to the true admirers of Michelangelo this is the true type of the Michelangelesque– sweetness and strength, pleasure with surprise, an energy of conception which seems at every moment about to break through all the conditions of comely form, recovering, touch by touch, a loveliness found usually only in the simplest natural things–ex forti dulcedo.

Some of those whom the gods love die young. This man, because the gods loved him, lingered [89] on to be of immense, patriarchal age, till the sweetness it had taken so long to secrete in him was found at last. Out of the strong came forth sweetness, ex forti dulcedo.

http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-6.html

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater

Judges 14:14

14 He replied, "Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet." For three days they could not give the answer.
 dixitque eis de comedente exivit cibus et de forte est egressa dulcedo nec potuerunt per tres dies propositionem solvere

1. 他向他們說：「食者生出食品，強者生出甘甜。」他們三天之久不能解這謎語。
2. 到了第四天，他們對三松的妻子說：「請引誘你的丈夫，把謎語說給你，以免我們放火燒你和你的父家。難道你請了我們來，是為了奪取我們的東西嗎﹖」

除歲

「我家中喚除夕作『二九暝』，一應灑掃買辦炊粿祭祖長輩們皆分外鄭重，耳濡目染下孩子們從小視之為一樁大事。年夜飯的內容並無定例，至於規格，最低要求六葷六素共十二樣菜，色色不得重複。十二樣菜，分別象徵了一年到頭的十二個月，葷菜代表好日子，素菜代表苦日子，日日年年皆苦甜參半，如此人生方有滋有味。每道菜都要嚐過才算完整地過了一年，倘若人數眾多，則倍加上去一共十二葷十二素二十四樣菜，愈顯隆重。

　菜式雖不拘，倒很常由一盤臘味拼盤充作開胃菜，臘味耐嚼，多少胃口就這樣細細嚼出來了。醬肘子、白菜心拌海蜇皮也多見於冷盤，十二樣菜講究冷盤熱炒，君臣佐使，一場盛宴方能顯出層次。母親拿手的糖醋烏鯧一向受歡迎，仔細揭開炸得蓬鬆酥脆的蛋酥，一尾劃出菱形紋的烏鯧橫陳盤中，醬汁由蒜碎、醬油、烏醋、冰糖煮出，鹹中帶甘，夾一筷魚肉蛋酥方蘸醬汁，以免蛋酥過度受潮。此外還有一大碗燉肉，或東坡肉或梅干扣肉或紅燒獅子頭，近年來多以蘇式紅燒肉的模樣登場；雞慣常料理成白切雞或紹興醉雞，若從整場宴席的角度考量，麻辣鹹香的口水雞其實更佳。素菜我特別喜歡蠔油炆冬菇，拿一只小砂鍋盛芥菜當底，再鋪上事先炆好的冬菇，小火慢煨至上桌，暫不提冬菇味濃，下層吸飽了湯汁的芥菜才讓人直喊鮮哪。」