"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs on hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate—he has little success in this—but with the other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different (and more) things than do the others; after all, dead as he is in his own lifetime, he is the real survivor. This assumes that he does not need both hands, or more hands than he has, in his struggle against despair."--Kafka



Saturday, May 24, 2008

書到用時

葉輝叔叔在明報的文章結集成「書到用時」,書很小很薄,一直都捨不得看完,在睡前一篇一篇的讀,不想消化過快。文章具時代性,從嚴肅的政治(普京、貝娜齊爾),到民生(醫藥、通脹),以至城中熱話(溏心風暴、蝙蝠俠)......順手拈來引用大量書籍討論各項議題,驚嘆葉輝叔叔知識版圖之宏大,寫法深入淺出,比常常引經據典的邵家臻強得多,後悔買了一本「書到用時」,令小妹的荷包大縮水——他所引用的書籍很吸引,害我有藉口去添置書籍呢。

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