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CAVA
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治愈系

Post by CAVA » 2009-11-11 5:16

终于拿到Isabel Dalhousie系列的第五本,The Comfort of Saturdays。想起Alexander McCall Smith自称serial novelism患者,微笑。第二页上,Isabel想到男朋友Jamie:he was her north, her south... WH Auden的诗我只记得这一首,从四个婚礼和一个葬礼里看来的。这里又感动了一会儿。

Jamie在乐团里演奏bassoon,也是AMS本人在Really Terrible Orchestra里担当的乐器。Jamie把音乐杂志上登的轶事讲给Isabel听:
'Listen to this,' he said. "There's a bit here about a performance of Lohengrin. Leo Slezak, the Czech tenor, was due to climb on to a swan and sail off the stage. Unfortunately one of the stagehands sent the mechanical swan off before he had time to get on to it. So Slazek turned to the audience and sang, in German, "When does the next swan leave?"'
笑昏了。这样精彩的段子编也编不出来,应该是真人真事。

Alexander McCall Smith的书早已成为我的治愈系良药。

几乎每次煮意面,都会发生水里要不要放橄榄油的讨论。我是坚决的不加派,尤其不喜欢把好大一个锅弄得油腻腻。而且包装上写:slightly salted water,没提油。某人不肯被说服,最近的一次,争到最后颇有点不愉快。

吃完面读The Full Cupboard of Life。Mma Makutsi正要搬新家,非常自豪与兴奋中。她目前住的房子极其简陋,路名也没有,周围有异味,用水要跟邻居租用他们家的水龙头,室内自然没有卫生设备。搬家的家具多由Mma Ramotswe捐助。她业余办打字学校挣的钱,20%要寄给乡间的亲戚。她的姨妈从来没有出过远门,可是感激Mma Makutsi的赞助使她们能够改善伙食。

忽然觉得煮面时加不加橄榄油,完全是不值得生气的事情。

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Post by Jun » 2009-11-11 9:25

橄榄油当然是放在 sauce 里,不是放在煮面的水里。
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Post by Knowing » 2009-11-11 10:27

有的厨师加。我虚弱的说。我也加。不过这有什么可争的。你煮就不加,他煮就加。
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Post by CAVA » 2009-11-11 10:54

大号的锅放洗碗机占地方,得手洗。还有滤面的筛。什么叫洗得干净,各人的标准也不一样。
Jun wrote:橄榄油当然是放在 sauce 里,不是放在煮面的水里。
我还只吃橄榄油做的酱,放奶油的基本都不喜欢。

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Post by Knowing » 2009-11-11 11:00

那就由洗碗收拾的人定?
我本来也不喜欢有奶油的酱,连奶酪都少加。这次在意大利发现人家的奶酪特别轻,跟牛奶似的,一点不腻。
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Post by CAVA » 2009-11-11 11:05

这下说到关键了,我认为只有自己才洗得干净,所以最后还是我洗。

不过自从那次,决定放弃争论了,反正谁也没说服谁 :preston_collar:

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Post by Knowing » 2009-11-11 11:11

why am I not surprised. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Post by CAVA » 2009-11-11 11:14

Conclusion: two cooks in the kitchen is one cook too many

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Post by Knowing » 2009-11-11 11:19

替你家某人说句话吧: 自己做面自己刷锅,最后对方还要跑进来把锅重新刷一边,火眼金睛的到处擦擦抹抹,的确令人郁闷。 :lol:
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Post by 洛洛 » 2009-11-11 12:50

这第五本我也正在看,不过题材(医生)不是特别吸引我,放了快两个星期才看到第二章。
我觉得作者要不是没经验还是想当然,isabel生了孩子后晚晚一个人自己住,早上照样起来工作会友,让人觉得特不真实。
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Post by silkworm » 2009-11-11 14:19

WH Auden那首诗,在我脑子里是跟那个角色的口音固化在一起的---我还真从原声带上把这首弄到mp3 player上听了好久呢。估计这跟一个老外习惯河南话版的床前明月光差不多?

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Post by tiffany » 2009-11-11 21:03

cava君的生活状态还是蛮不错的吗 :mrgreen:
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Post by ruby » 2009-11-11 22:15

tiffany wrote:cava君的生活状态还是蛮不错的吗 :mrgreen:
白博说得好

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Post by 幻儿 » 2009-11-11 23:27

silkworm wrote:WH Auden那首诗,在我脑子里是跟那个角色的口音固化在一起的---我还真从原声带上把这首弄到mp3 player上听了好久呢。估计这跟一个老外习惯河南话版的床前明月光差不多?
我第一次看到这首诗是在某杂志上(很有可能是《读者》),中文翻译当时读起来特别动听,我当时还处在拿小本抄名言的阶段,就赶紧抄了这诗,一度还能背,印象非常之深刻。后来听到英文原版反而觉得没中文好 :roll: 。第一印象太重要了阿。

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Post by CAVA » 2009-11-12 2:28

洛洛 wrote:我觉得作者要不是没经验还是想当然,isabel生了孩子后晚晚一个人自己住,早上照样起来工作会友,让人觉得特不真实。
我猜AMS也许新得了孙子孙女,所以开始写小孩子的事情。他自己的小孩养育也许都没怎么参与。不过他态度好,经常唱女性的颂歌 8)

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Post by CAVA » 2009-11-12 6:15

silkworm wrote:WH Auden那首诗,在我脑子里是跟那个角色的口音固化在一起的---我还真从原声带上把这首弄到mp3 player上听了好久呢。估计这跟一个老外习惯河南话版的床前明月光差不多?
我现在就把Auden和苏格兰联系在一起,而且AMS老写他。其实Auden是英格兰人。

最近特别着迷意大利和苏格兰口音的英语 :cat74:

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Post by Jun » 2009-11-12 8:29

CAVA wrote: 最近特别着迷意大利和苏格兰口音的英语 :cat74:
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Post by tiffany » 2009-11-12 9:47

哎,昨天老兵节哎,从一个blog里发现一首悼念阵亡战士的诗,真动人,描红的那段我觉得我可能在阿灵顿的某个纪念杯上看到过,念着有点儿耳熟。
这首诗由跟jrr tolkein同时代的Robert Laurence Binyon作,念着有些LotR里长歌的味道
For The Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.


They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
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Post by CAVA » 2009-11-12 11:32

昨天好多关于一战的专题报道。真惨哪,几十万的年轻人困在泥泞里,前进不得,后退更不行,死得莫名其妙,一死就是几万几万,都不知道打这个仗的目的在哪里。当时还不流行抱怨,直到有个叫Siegfried Sassoon的诗人抱着上军事法庭的准备写了一堆写实的诗。PTSD不为人所知,顶多给你处方个shell shock。

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Post by CAVA » 2009-11-16 10:33

今天拿到Alexander McCall Smith的新书Corduroy Mansions,地点既不在爱丁堡,也不在博兹瓦纳,而在伦敦。没错,AMS给Daily Telegraph写的连载小说发掘了一个新地址。

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上网搜Corduroy Mansions,发现每日电讯报的工夫做得极其到家。每一章都可以在线阅读,还可以听有声书。朗读者的声音完全是冷幽默的一派,太适合AMS的风格了。再一看,不对,这已经是系列里的第二本了,名字叫The Dog Who Came in from the Cold!不由得放声大笑。不知道AMS和John le Carré事先有没有达成公识呢?

决定这本书不能在旅行时看/听,老是笑出声来,有扰公共秩序。

Serial novelist: Alexander McCall Smith

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Post by putaopi » 2009-11-16 15:52

McCall Smith必是拿Le Carre调侃呢。

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