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此抄將為吾首次以中文於無名小站發表，節錄自生平最愛小說【基度山恩仇記】最末章【十月五日】中男主角所撰最後書信。初為文，以古體行，迴避吾中文打字之拙陋，蓋字數較少矣，非有欲以聱牙詰舌，媚示於外者；但能以此旨著墨，幸甚。
本書中文全譯本出自李牧華先生於民國六十一年手稿，以全譯本發行，已著實不易；既謂全譯，一字一格，屢屢道來，不畏艱辛，洋洋灑灑少則百萬言；況譯文流暢典雅，詞藻秀麗。大方而不失細緻，精密而不泥鑽營。譯者處處師慧獨運，以中文襯托法文柔夢之美，淋漓盡致，真逸品也。三十年後亦未見後賢，得有以伯仲相稱者，堪稱眾譯本之翹楚，實至名歸。

From this day on,
I am not only Chris;
For I will have another name;
Hopefully soon, but later is not worse,
Clark, an earthly act,
But never an earthly calling,
It is rather unevitable fact,
Transformers thus will be coming.
Leap as they march,
Hulk as they smash.
Titan as they gloat,
Fountain as they devote.
Curiously may you wonder,
The special days we are together.
For what gushes the purpose?
La Companha de Jesus! 

It is Teacher's Day today, a "typhoonful" day, which granted me generously a class-free break; I like to write something closely related to teachers, and I don't think there would be anything which is closer to teachers than blackboards at classrooms.
As far as we know, the first teacher who wrote on classroom walls was the Reverend Samuel Reed Hall (1795~1877), an innovative educator and minister who is said to have first written on a peice of dark paper when teaching a mathematics lesson in Rumford, Maine, in 1816. Later Hall moved to Concord, Vermaont, where, it is believed, he had the plaster in his classroom painted black. Soon, many other teachers, following Hall's example, painted plaster walls or plain boards black to create a visual teaching aid. By the second quarter of the nineteenth century, enameled walls and then slate boards dominated American classrooms. Hall, who is also credited by American historians with inventing the blackboard eraser and with intrducing many other educational innovations, has been honored by the state of Vermont with a memorial in Concord bearing the inscription including the words "pioneer in the use of the blackboard as a schoolroom appliance".

What is a language? Many professionals have dedicated years, even generations, to exploring the interesting question which is with incredable vastness. Nowadays, language science evolves and improves, in which field we are amazed at how wonderful and complicated what we are using as a tool to mommunicate one another every day really is. And that's the reason why I have come to love linguistic, which also gives me a new aspect to know a language, especially English, in a relatively more logical and panoramic way.
As an American writer, Gertrude Stein, once stated, "I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." Indeed, using languages is artistic and interesting, and so is analysing them. In diagramming sentences, we might see certain clues that how God manipulated the oringinal source of languages to confuse people at the Tower of Babel thousands of years ago. Or at least, we could know how confusing it has come to be, an artistic somehow a little humorous way of divinity.
However, most linguistic textbooks are tough to read for there are so many terms and closed and strict descriptive definitions, which are not easily comprehensible to normal people who are not expertised in related fields. Here I would like to recommand a best buy as well as the best elixir for biginners longing to get closer to linguistic knowledge but easily becoming fretful about its Phariseean style. In addition, this book has also won highly approval and identification by Dr. Chris Ledt Lin, who was once also favored by this book:

If you own an antique vase from Q'in Dynasty, will you cherish it?
A four-year-old boy once reached his little hand into an expensive vase but got stuck in it, anxiously not knowing what to do. His mom tried all her best to "undo" what the child "did", such as lubricating with soap water, all eventually in vain. She could have crashed the vase only for fear that this vase might be her husband's treasurous family heirloom. Mom told her son with a somehow discouraged voice: "Dad will soon be home. Don't worry; let him help us with this later."
Soon Dad went back and noticed the situation of emergency; he stared at the vase a little while, beholding his panic son and helpless wife, and broke the vase with a hammer determinedly. The vase scattered into pieces after a big bang, only to see nothing but a fist, seemingly holding something firmly there.
"Have you always been keeping this way right after you reached your hand into it?", asked the father gently. The son nodded sobbingly. It turned out that there was a coin in the child's palm, and he just didn't let it go. If he had loosed his hand, his father would have not needed to hammer the vase out.
It sometimes costs parents a precious family treasure to save a child who would keep a penny in his hand. Likewise, it might cost God His priceless heirloom to save His innocent people who could never pay attention to Him but focus on those trifles.
How valuable is God's heirloom? Or, let me put it this way: how important are you? Well...
The life of His only son, Jesus.

From now on, sensationally, is a brand new English creative column coming to us: "A Challenge to The Cherubims". It is a special area authorized by Dr. Chris Lin, PhD. in English literature and reproductive organic satires, where we can learn English through interest and liveliness under Dr. Lin's descriptive expressions of diversities. There will be including many funny articles under many catagories: pure lit, social values, natural science, deductive, business,...and so on. And I'm so honored to have the privilege to publish his very first one in the series.
The following is the fantastic debut which appeared in the editorial section of a newsmagazine.
"Some states are creating new laws that restrict the use of
of handheld cell phones by drivers of automobiles. Such
legislation, however, is sheer folly. Although some people
with cell phones undoubtedly cause problems on the road,
including serious accidents, the majority do not. Besides,
problems are also caused by drivers who are distracted by
any number of other activities, from listening to
the radio to disciplining children. Since there is no
need to pass legislation restricting these and other
such activities, it follows that there is no need to
restrict people's freedom to use a device that they find
convenient—or helpful in emergencies."
Q1. Try to weaken the statement of this argument. There may be unlogical points of views. Find them out and explain why in the reply section of this column.
The answer of Q1 along with the whole passage translation are seen in the reply section of the article beneath. The rest can be seen on his personal blog in Wretch: clarkchris.
Good luck!

 
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

What is honesty? To be honest, honesty is not what general people may think about. Actually, it can be regarded so or discussed from at least three aspects:
1. Honesty is a deed to tell the relatively truth, which is certain in the definite region of speaker's reasonable domain, either arbitrary, objective, or subjective.
2. Honesty is a reciprocal, agentively-driven interaction of cognition, in which the speaker and the listener both are aware the content of the following dialogue would be  in a "true and candid" atmosphere. Namely, if you had already known the issue or the mood of either party which may bring about produdice, preconceived bias or any other emotional turmoils. Then your willingness of "honesty" may not always be exactly what you expect from your sincere heart in the early beginning.
3. Honesty is of true love. True love toward your friends, family and your neighbors, even your enemy. The true love from which you wish the whole group including you be in a harmoneous unity heading whole-heartedly to the ultimate truth, real beauty, and kindness, is what you must have been always pursuing for in your life. As the Bible says, "Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work."  (Ephesians 4:15~16) Pay attention to how many times Paul had used the phrase "in love". If there were no love, honesty would be someone else' poison. If we talk to people without love, our words are like the sharpest poisonous swords with two blades; as soon as one touches it, they die.
Honesty would never be complete if there would be either of these three elements missing. I never, ever will tell others that I am truely "honest" though I hate to tell a lie; but I would try to be honest as I could, meeting all its three elements. So, my friends, if you should undeliberately miss one, maybe two of them, please, please don't tell anyone that you are "honest". You are very likely to be nothing but chaff of
ambition, distraction, uglification, and the most pathetique derision!

For quite a long time have I wondered what may possibly result in wrath, the real anger; guess what, it's love itself. It is love that causes hatred. It is love that deepens the cut wound. And it is still love that makes us hope for love no more.
Could we just blame love for all such dismay? Or we should give up loving people in the future? I would rather make an analysis about love and manage to discuss its counterpart. I also will do some exploration about the route of both ends, two elements that will never compromise each other, especially the route, which is believed to be the vital factor for human's emotions to be abused.
To love is one thing, to love right is another. To love right is one thing, to love the right one is another. To have endless love is not enough, if you use it in the wrong way. Just as the proverb goes: "Some one's love may be another's poison." You should know how or how much one can take your love beforehand if you do love him or her. To love one in the wrong way is just like poison. Too much and you could kill him or her. What will love mean when it could not be accepted by the one you love? It is a kind of waste. It is a waste of God's precious grant to humans. And once humans are careless about loving people. Something wrong must happen right following it.
We should always pay much attention not to let love turn into wrath which results from love itself. We have to know that the feeling "love" is from God; we have to right to love because of God, and every other can also have the right to decide who to love and by whom they are loved. After all, God loves all of us. We have no right to refuse or abuse such feeling. Remember, God loves us all, including the one you love, the one who chooses not to love you, and the one who fails to please you or meet your expectations upon them. If you are aware of this, you might well as to be the one who knows how to love. And ever since there's is no wrath, the ill side effect of misunderstanding and twisted love.
                                                                                               

Yes, indeed. The girl in my album is gorgeous. Elegant as she is, I bet there is no other one in the world like her. The pencil sketch was found by me yesterday. Well, very surprisingly have I stared at this picture as I knew who depicted his romance. Guess what? You will never know who did this. He is someone that you will never figure out from a list of "amateur painters". He is as well illiterate.
Want to know who he is, come and ask me. And I'll tell you an amazing story...