美國時間：每日珠璣 (By Hanching Chung)

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...

Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis.  Wikipedia Born :  October 3, 1867,  Fontenay-aux-Roses, France Died :  January 23, 1947,  Le Cannet, France On view :  Detroit Institute of Arts ,  Museum of Modern Art ,  MORE Periods :  Post-Impressionism ,  Modern art ,  Impressionism ,  Les Nabis Spouse :  Marthe de Meligny  (m. 1925–1942) Parents :  Eugene Bonnard ,  Elisabeth Mertzdorff Quotes Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. A painting that is well composed is half finished. French painter Pierre Bonnard was born on this day in 1867. In “The Green Blouse” viewers see Bonnard’s longtime companion and future wife, Mart...

1836 The Beagle arrived at Australia (Jan. 12) and set sail for England (March 14), arrving back on Oct. 2nd. Darwin had been away from home five years, and would never leave England again. "It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind." --from THE VOYAGE OF THE ‘BEAGLE’ (1839) Henry Graham Greene OM CH, better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the great writers of the 20th century.  Wikipedia Born :  October 2, 1904,  Berkhamsted, United Kingdom Died :  April 3, 1991,  Vevey, Switzerland Movies :  The Third Man ,  The Fallen Idol ,  A Shocking Accident ,  MORE Plays :  The Potting Shed ,  The Complaisant Lover ,  The Living Room ,  The Great...