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November 23, 2013
newyorker:
Fifty years after J.F.K.’s assassination, a look at...
Fifty years after J.F.K.’s assassination, a look at photos captured at Dealey Plaza by people who bore witness to it from the sidelines: http://nyr.kr/17ZX3Rz
John F. Kennedy. Unidentified Photographer, ca. 1963. All images courtesy International Center of Photography.
November 22, 2013
theparisreview:
On this day in 1899, Die Traumdeutung (The...
On this day in 1899, Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) was first published. Sales were initially dismal but the rest, of course, is psychoanalytical history. In honor of its birthday, we bring you the only known audio recording of Sigmund Freud, made by the BBC near the end of his life in Hampstead, London.
Archive. No matter how much we are sick of three armies of Freud scholars and papers, he made one of the most important step in understanding human brains in the 20th century.
To start something new is always hard. People are used to what they have, but if the human nature is to stay with what we have, we will never go this far, and Freud is one of the pioneers in the evolution of understanding human lives. I admired him. Yes, “the struggle is not yet over”, and in any field of life, the struggle is not yet over.
p.s. The day when Freud spoke was my birthday. :)
November 21, 2013
newyorker:
A cartoon by Bob Mankoff. For more marathon-inspired...
A cartoon by Bob Mankoff. For more marathon-inspired cartoons: http://nyr.kr/1a0NYv4
This cartoon reminds me my grandfather. He is a great man in knowledge, a great intellectual in the field of Chinese language and literature. He is always proud of graduating from Beijing University (Peking University), and been through with National Southwestern Associated University period. Wen Yi Duo was his teacher. He is in Alzheimer now. When he was still in the early syndrome, we could hear him speaking to himself about Bei Da a lot. Not any more.
Years ago, when we still are able to do family reunion, we sat with my grandfather, and he said, in his university time, all the teaching were done in English. He knows good in English. He remembered vividly Life Magazine he was reading back then. There was a commercial about a red wine. On the graphic, there is a person making toast with a glass of red wine, and the caption goes, “To drink or not to drink, we all die, so let’s drink!” This is the meaning I translated from his description. His hometown is Shandong, Penglai, where people believe has gods living in. Now he keeps thinking me and my cousins are fishermen, what a pity, but at least, he drank before.
And we keep drinking.
November 20, 2013
Edited China: “China Relaxes Company Registration Requirements” Xinhua, 27 October...
November 19, 2013
One Nation Under Smog: The Rules for Beijing Living : The...
One Nation Under Smog: The Rules for Beijing Living : The New Yorker
To live like this is not what we choose, but in 100 or more years, it will be a collective memory, and a generation of people will benefit from it like London now.
