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June 19: 濁水溪鐵橋通車1907；William Golding, J.M. Barrie, Salman Rushdie,


J.M. Barrie died on June 19th 1937. Best known for his Peter Pan stories, their themes of innocence, societal constraint and exile are present throughout his work



William Golding ( 1911-1993；1983年諾貝爾文學獎) 1967作品 The Pyramid 引用（《金字塔》李國慶譯，上海譯文，2000，p.15），不過注不詳盡。
我從這小說的題詞：「治民之道，以愛為本；心有愛則生，無愛則死。」（古埃及箴言）學到哲理。
想起上周聽他諾貝爾文學獎受講演說詞最後的一可愛（可….）英國警察之故事：
The very day after I learned that I was the laureate for literature for 1983 I drove into a country town and parked my car where I should not. I only left the car for a few minutes but when I came back there was a ticket taped to the window. A traffic warden, a lady of a minatory aspect, stood by the car. She pointed to a notice on the wall. "Can't you read?" she said. Sheepishly I got into my car and drove very slowly round the corner. There on the pavement I saw two county policemen.
http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/…/william-golding-author-of-lord…


Golding firmly believed that “Lord of the Flies” grew out of the knowledge of his own cruelty: “I have always understood the Nazis,” he wrote, “because I am of that sort by nature”


Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two ...Wikipedia
Born: June 19, 1947 (age 70), Mumbai, India
Spouse: Padma Lakshmi (m. 2004–2007),MORE
Movies and TV shows: Then She Found Me, Midnight's Children, MORE
Awards: Booker Prize, The Best of the Booker, Aristeion Prize, MORE
Quotes
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.


On this day in 1947 India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain. In the speech he delivered in the first minutes of the new day, India's Jawaharlal Nehru gave Salman Rushdie the title for his 1981 Booker Prize-winner, MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom...."
"Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I," every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world."
--from MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (1980)
A contemporary classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947—and examines a whole people’s capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones. READ more here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/midnights-children-by-…/



台灣回憶探險團
【歷史上的今天】
1907年6月19日 濁水溪鐵橋通車
日本時代為了讓縱貫鐵道可以貫通南北，在臺灣西部密布的河川上建設了許多橋樑，其中初期第一大鐵橋即為全長一千一百多公尺的濁水溪鐵橋。在克服了又深又湍急的河水、大型機具缺乏各種困難後，將動輒數十公噸的橋架以純熟的鉚釘工藝一一連接，終於在1907年6月19日測試通車成功，也讓全島縱貫鐵道全線通車的目標又往前邁進一大步，隔年四月工程提前完成通車，自此原本以動輒月計的南北交通時間縮短為一天內可抵達，對臺灣造成了重大且深遠的影響。
可惜就如其他中華民國政權治下數不盡的文化資產命運，這條見證臺灣重要歷史的橋樑，戰後遭到拆除，目前僅存一座橋墩遺跡。
延伸閱讀：
1908年4月20日 臺灣縱貫鐵道全線通車
http://www.twmemory.org/?p=11121
1908年10月24日 臺灣縱貫鐵道全通式
http://www.twmemory.org/?p=7323
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