冬天里的几条鱼

　　继续报道
　　鱼们长得很好，当然，已经完全换了一批啦。
　　给它们喂鱼虫干，它们的嘴好大阿，真是貌似斯文。秉着宁饿不撑的原则，咱们的鱼三天两头处于挨饿的状况，反正饿是不会饿死的。它们把水草啃得一塌糊涂。
　　困难起来它们也是可以吃素的。
　　
　　介绍一下历史。
　　第一批32条红绿灯一天后通通三长两短，认真讨论，纠其原因，原是买错鱼了，这些热带鱼虽然漂亮，但我们的鱼缸太冷了。
　　后来拉同事赞助两条金鱼，并根据捐赠人的意愿，命名成了另一个同事，一条姓，一条名。
　　本来它俩过得好好的，坏就坏在一起买鱼食。讨价还价不成，就说那你送我们几条喂乌龟的小鱼吧。结果她十分慷慨，给了我们一大堆。这下坏了，这些鱼放进去密密麻麻拥挤得象上海的市民生活。第二天，两条金鱼都完了，那一大堆精力旺盛的乌龟鱼都好好的。
　　这个故事老大的解释是，金鱼是给郁闷死的，一晚上一条接一条的小鱼来示好骚扰，还全长得一个样难看！哈哈
　　最后这一大群全让Georgia拿回小区放生去了。



红头来吃鱼虫干

Redhat rushing for food.


大黑也冲上来了

Big Black coming straight from bottom


留的小鱼，全透明，一口吃鱼头那么大一块虫干

Transparent small fish has a big mouth, can eat as big as its head


大黑潜水

Big Black diving


橙色很谨慎，一点响动就到处逃窜

Orange is very alertive, anybody comes close, it runs away frantically.


把水草拿掉，强行来个集体照

Well, nobody can hide. Get out all weeds and say 'cheese'.


晚上回来小区角落里暗香浮动，猛吸几口，腊梅
花市一看，果然，在午后的阳光里正盛开

I feel the fragrance in the darkness.
Yes, Wintersweet is blossoming. Sunshine at noon is beautiful.
Chimonanthus praecox (L.)


待售的三只小猫，有点冷，挤成一团

Three kitties for sale. They crouch together. It's a little cold for them.


图片在鱼和其它

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　　求求你和尊同事们，就这么养两条吧。坚持着养，别再见异思迁地为了这个美貌那个划算来伤害我等对迅疾如彗星般的生命的精心冻破的哀悼之心了啊啊啊啊
评论人：linz 评论日期：2004-12-16 16:20


　　嗯，我们最近又收养了一桶红鲫鱼（？）
　　同事回美国过圣诞，把她儿子的鱼寄养给我们，她拎个小水桶坐地铁，大家都问：哪来一地的水？哪来的水？:)
　　说死活不要紧，就帮着照料一下就可以。于是我们都意味深长地看着最大的那条，嗯，不错，个头很大了，可以烧汤……哈哈
　　
　　但是昨天里面最小的一条小白鱼死了。
　　我按大个的给的鱼食，结果小的撑死了。
　　大小太悬殊啦…… :(
　　今天统统挨饿。
评论人：乱看 评论日期：2004-12-17 10:01


　　嘟哝一声
　　你们是残忍的
　　
　　...
　　Whoever dies now somewhere in the world
　　without reasons dies in the world
　　looks at me
　　...
评论人：linz 评论日期：2004-12-17 14:13


　　may i kindly ask (qing wen(4)) who wrote these words, and why they appear here? i must confess that i am confused. (sebastel)
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2004-12-17 15:12


　　这个腊梅是玉兰科的，有道理阿有道理
　　是比较象，花形，不长叶就开花，有香味
　　和梅花还是很不象的
　　
　　After seeing my story how fishes die (well, quite a lot of fish passed away for different reasons before we can take good care of them, er, seems still not yet), she feels it is cruel.
　　
　　And she's in a mode of a good poem:
　　
　　　　Solemn Hour
　　　　by Rainer Maria Rilke

　　Whoever now weeps somewhere in the world,
　　weeps without reason in the world,
　　weeps over me.

　　Whoever now laughs somewhere in the night,
　　laughs without reason in the night,
　　laughs at me.

　　Whoever now wanders somewhere in the world,
　　wanders without reason out in the world,
　　wanders toward me.

　　Whoever now dies somewhere in the world,
　　dies without reason in the world,
　　looks at me.

　　
　　That's why. ;)
评论人：乱看 评论日期：2004-12-19 12:01


　　oh, so that was the reason.
　　well, since rilke was a german poet, i (sebastian) add the original german version:
　　
　　
　　
　　Ernste Stunde
　　
　　Wer jetzt weint irgendwo in der Welt,
　　 ohne Grund weint in der Welt,
　　 weint ueber mich.
　　
　　Wer jetzt lacht irgendwo in der Nacht,
　　 ohne Grund lacht in der Nacht,
　　 lacht mich aus.
　　
　　Wer jetzt geht irgendwo in der Welt,
　　 ohne Grund geht in der Welt,
　　 geht zu mir.
　　
　　Wer jetzt stirbt irgendwo in der Welt,
　　 ohne Grund stirbt in der Welt:
　　 sieht mich an.
　　
　　
　　Rainer Maria Rilke, Mitte Oktober 1900, Berlin-Schmargendorf
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2004-12-19 21:58


　　ah, Great!
　　Maybe you can tell us, why the second paragraph is about Nacht while all the others are about Welt?
　　This really confused us, you know, the second part is unique in this sense...
评论人：乱看 评论日期：2004-12-20 11:50


　　 hmmm let me see.
　　i think the second part is different anyway. it contains laughter - but not a bright, happy laughter, but "laugh at me" ... so this is a "dark" laughter. and darkness is more or less related to night.
　　beside this, the german words for "laughs" and "night" make a rhyme: "... lacht ... nacht".
　　reasons good enough? i am not convinced yet.
　　
　　i must confess i am not really good at interpretation of poems... i have yet not really an idea why rilke put this poem this way. the more i look at it, the more the whole thing seems to be odd. so probably i am missing something. (?)
　　
　　instead of thinking myself maybe looking around in the internet might help :-)
　　but first i need to go out and buy some books (you know an author named Gao XingJian?). you know, someone asked me to make good use of my free days!
　　
　　til later.
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2004-12-20 17:00


　　Gao XingJian 高行建 got
　　2000 Nobel Literature Prize
　　
评论人：linz 评论日期：2004-12-21 17:27


　　longnosed sebastel smiles broadly (from ear to ear):
　　:-))))))))
　　
　　hard to overlook that he received the nobel price... it is printed in each and every advertisement.
　　
　　i should have been more precise - like asking:
　　"have you read his books?"
　　"is he popular in china?"
　　
　　surprizing, by the way: how easy it is to find a way from a gold fish bowl to the nobel prize in literature.
　　i love (and sometimes hate) internet boards for this.
　　
　　c u (i hope)
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2004-12-21 20:41


　　:) What i know about Gao Xingjian is not much more than he got the prize. so Ads work very well.
　　Frankly, i haven't read his books.
　　Perhaps he is popular in some certain circles. I remember in 2000/2001 he and his books are hot topics, but now silence. I downloaded one of his books, unfortunately I can't find time to read so i delete it. Now his name is rarely to be talked...
　　...Nobel Literature, so far I'm still staying on reading Proust's ~~~du Temps perdu (3)...don't know when to start Mr Gao.
　　
评论人：linz 评论日期：2004-12-22 13:10


　　the complete "lost times"?
　　
　　wow!
　　
　　i am impressed.
　　that is almost a full life's reading. you do something else beside that? i mean, sleeping, eating, shopping, working, family and friends ... i find it hard to find time for reading at all.
　　
　　although i am not afraid of "big" books, the sheer size of proust's work made me avoid it.
　　
　　...
　　concerning Gao xian sheng ... as soon as i know, i'll tell you whether i find it worth while reading "ling shan". but first i need to finish another book (by MianMian).
　　
　　sebastel
　　
　　
　　
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2004-12-22 22:00


　　haha..so you know how long time I've been staying there without even one page being turned over? 2 yrs..:P
　　U give me the good reasons to soften my guilty of laziness, i have to sleep, eat, work, care for family and friends...
　　
　　Anyway, 'the lost times'is worth reading. Although i've almost forgot the whole content i've read, there r still some paragraphs impressed me deeply, the descriptions r so engaging, such as the taste and scene while he's sipping the linden tea; the white howthorn flowers blossoming in the rain.. all of these really touched me very much.
　　 This is a book on remembrance, so i don't care if i skip the story in it. Memory should be the essence it want to make the readers recall.
　　So absolutely it is a book for the full life reading.
　　
　　Thank you for u volunteer to explore Ling Shan, give me ur opinion after the research. Also Mian Mian, how do u think about hers?
　　
　　Right now, I'm reading...a book on basic knowledge of psychology; a book on management - 'Execution'- just finished; a monthly journal of Astronomy Amateur; and Howard End by Foster.
　　Certainly, blogs.
　　
　　~~and a Gong Fu novel, very very long, and entertaining.... ;-)
评论人：linz 评论日期：2004-12-23 12:08


　　concerning MianMian... well, it is not easy to read. maybe my wild years are too long ago? trying to follow her way of thinking and feeling in order to understand why she puts her words the way she does is a challenge. i am still not certain what my conclusion will finally be.
　　so hard to explain. you know, there are storie, you simply have to like, because everything is well balanced, full of beauty. hers is not like that. even when readin, i sometimes find myself fighting the words (???). but it is this certain un-evenness, this not-smooth-at-all that keeps me at it.
　　
　　this is not a good comparison, but in a certain aspect it reminds me of how it was when reading william borroughs books.
　　
　　---
　　
　　the last book i read for "plain" entertainment was "harry potter", and some manga (although this does not exactly count as 'literature').
　　
　　i'd like to try gong fu stuff, but until now i did not find any. suppose the editors do not see a market for this in europe.
　　
　　beside this is have the problem of too many interests. music, photography, motorcycling, reading, watchin movies ... no surprise for none of these i find _enough_ time... and once in a while i simply need to be lazy.
　　
　　i hope whether gets bad, and the tv program even worse - then i see a chance to find enough time for reading.
　　
　　:-)
　　
　　many regards,
　　sebastian
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2004-12-24 4:36


　　more on mianmian.
　　
　　she writes about what drives her.
　　mainly, that is a dark, raw and unexplainable force. she names it "love".
　　as this is a universal force, and i believe i know it myself, follows: she writes of what drives me. so it is no surprise that i am interested.
　　
　　at the same time i got the impression to know what is her topic, i still not fully understand. ti is exactly what i know and it is so totally different from what i know.
　　
　　still reading, still thinking
　　sebastian
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2004-12-26 18:14