美國時間：每日珠璣 (By Hanching Chung)

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Wikipedia Born :  January 19, 1809,  Boston, Massachusetts, United States Died :  October 7, 1849,  Baltimore, Maryland, United States Poems :  The Raven ,  Annabel Lee ,  Lenore ,  The Bells ,  MORE Short stories :  The Tell-Tale Heart ,  The Black Cat ,  MORE Quotes Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. We loved with a love that was more than love. Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" The London Library # Onthisday  1849,  # EdgarAllenPoe  - king of mystery and the macabre and author of "The Raven" - croaked and was never more. 翻譯年糕 今天是Po...

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.  Wikipedia Born :  August 6, 1809,  Somersby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Died :  October 6, 1892,  Lurgashall, United Kingdom Poems :  Ulysses ,  The Lady of Shalott ,  In Memoriam A.H.H. ,  MORE Awards :  Chancellor's Gold Medal Quotes I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. The London Library "I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me" Adieu  # AlfredLordTennyson , Poet Laureate and President ...

老曹雖然是中國文學系的，不過心靈通世界偉人：不知道他是否讀過陳繼儒(1558－1639)的箴言："人生一日或聞一善言，見一善行，行一善事，此日方不虛生。 "  因為他選的是歌德的話：「一個人在自己的生活裡，每天要吟讀一首好詩，閱讀一本名著，聆聽一首名曲，欣賞一幅名畫，庶幾上蒼賦予你的美麗靈魂，才不致被塵俗的煩惱所蒙蔽。」 Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Wikipedia Born :  October 5, 1713,  Langres, France Died :  July 31, 1784,  Paris, France Nationality :  French Plays :  Le Fils naturel ,  Le Père de famille Quotes Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. “Monsignor… you are asking whether I promi...

Sputnik 1 - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter ... BBC Science News Sixty years ago, the Space Age entered a new era with the launch of the first man-made satellite, Sputnik (amid rising Cold War tensions) ---- A comprehensive survey of the Barbizon school and Millet's relation to it is Robert L. Herbert,  Barbizon Revisited  (1962). 史書說他的 素描影響更大為多名藝術家所崇敬--一些標本圖 ----- 這是從小說Magus 引出的一小段 或許只要求讀懂第一句即可 Self-denial was incomprehensible to him, unless it formed part of some aesthetic regimen. I stood with him once and watched a line of peasants laboring a turnip field. A Millet brought to life. And his only remark was:  It is beautiful that they are they and that we are we . For him even the most painful social confrontations and contrasts, which would have stabbed the conscience of even th...