Daily Murmurs
碎的念
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译者发现了作者把方大猷的猷写成了献，但没有发现同一句里还把兖州写成了衮州。
新任巡抚方大猷（原文误为方大献——译者）发现，当清朝在衮州的统治风雨飘摇之际
《洪业：清朝开国史》 — 魏斐德
真有你的啊，抖音。在 iPhone 上下拉搜索「韩国」两个字，弹出的搜索建议，乍一眼还以为是 「10 大韩国顶级伦理片」。刚犯嘀咕怎么尺度这么大，定睛一看才发现写的是「绝伦推理片」。
打车上班的路上，Spotify 播了一首 Hooked on a Feeling，突然就想起来 2014 年的某个清晨，我在东湖边，等驾校教练载我们去练车。当时耳机里循环着《银河护卫队》的 OST，也正好放到了这一首，开头的歌词像极了「胡搞瞎搞」。驾校的名字、去哪里练的车，一概都忘了，只记得价格不超过 1000 的红米手机上现已倒闭的虾米音乐播的这首歌。人的记忆很奇怪。
看到豆瓣 App 侧边栏右下角出现了一个“每日福利”按钮，点进去是购物返利页面，顿时涌上来一种复杂的感觉，就像看到一个曾经酷爱陀思妥耶夫斯基和克尔凯郭尔的文青同学，突然有天给你发了条拼多多链接并留言：“兄弟在不？帮忙砍一刀，谢了！”并附上四个表示拜托的 emoji。你有点惋惜，但同时也很欣慰，因为这意味着你以后的拼多多链接也可以多发一个人了。
喜欢在不恰当的场合做我认为恰当的事情。 公司正在办开发者大会，大讲全球的 AI 趋势，大展本司的 AI 成果。工作间里，在沉淀了几天的外卖气味里，夹杂着忙完活动正在惬意聊天的声音，同事们审着没人会读超过两段的媒体稿件，偶尔抱怨一句「写稿子好歹用点付费的 AI」。而我在悄悄看李翊云的《Things in Nature Merely Grow》（自然万物只是生长）。 这是一本讲死亡和过去的书。接连两个儿子死于自杀，却克制地像在描述邻居家的变故。书里用了一句诗解释，「最深的情感，总以沉默的方式出现」。相比之下，AI 显得太热闹、太积极、太争先恐后了。人们挂着参会的证件，穿梭在拥挤的展台，满脸都是紧抓科技潮流的兴奋感。有那么一瞬间，我以为这家已经被时代抛弃、正在慢性死亡的公司，或许真可能焕发第二春。 就像肯定也有那么一瞬间，李翊云以为自己能走出悲痛。 但我们都知道不能。死亡无情地碾过你珍爱的人，AI 也会碾过我供职的公司和我。李翊云的书名或许是化用了「天地不仁，以万物为刍狗」，而这场 AI 大会的 slogan 里，也有「万物」两字。 在死亡和 AI 面前，万物都是刍狗。
Then he stepped out of the car and raised a hand. James was a person of few words and even fewer gestures. That raised hand, like that versatile single word “oh” in his conversation, could mean many things: Hello, or goodbye, or leave me alone, or thank you, or, simply a reply to the words I said when he stepped out of the car, “I love you, James.
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
When we dropped James off at his dorm after that last dinner with us, I asked him what he was reading, and he replied that he was rereading The Myth of Sisyphus. Then he stepped out of the car and raised a hand. James was a person of few words and even fewer gestures. That raised hand, like that versatile single word “oh” in his conversation, could mean many things: Hello, or goodbye, or leave me alon
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
预见，或许就会提前举白旗。
To foresee is to give too much weight to intuition; foreseeing might be waving a white flag prematurely.
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
我也喜欢 people watching，但没有发现这个规律，果真如此吗？或许女性结伴同行本来就是社会常态。
After a while, Vincent pointed out this baffling fact: groups of three tended to be composed of two old women with one old man—or two young men with one young woman. “You see, it’s never two old men with one old woman or two young women with one young man,” Vincent said. “Why is that?”
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
Two years after Vincent died, I went to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and was surprised to learn that Theo had lived for only six more months after Vincent’s death. That fact revisited me after James’s death.
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
李翊云的亲妈有点残忍。
Two years after Vincent died, she informed me that there was some karma in my losing a child: I had failed to return her love for me.)
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
在李翊云儿子James身上找到了共鸣，我也喜欢把手机界面设成我正在学习的语言。
James would teach himself several languages: Welsh, German, Romanian, and Russian, on top of Spanish, Italian, and Japanese, the languages he took at school. His phone, I once found out by accident, was set in Lithuanian
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
Peak shithousery.
Rubio is wearing the Maduro tracksuit on his flight to China
把直觉付诸文字，就像把蝴蝶做成标本。
I avoid putting my intuitions into words, which would be pinning a butterfly on a specimen board so as to claim the certainty of possession.
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
The most crushiating thing in life is your most beloved ones betray you when you need it most.
And I should add: my mother was in the conference room that day and laughed and jeered along with her colleagues. But when I got home from school that evening, her wrath was a story that I prefer not to remember.
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
That pepper spray is among the objects that have outlived Vincent. Sometimes I go into his room and take a look at it.
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
非常震撼的一句话。
Every semester, then and later, I would teach Grace Paley’s story “Friends,” and every time I would point out a passage to my students, though I doubt many of them truly understood its weight. An older woman, reminiscing about her daughter’s death, says to her friends: “You know the night Abby died, when the police called me and told me? That was my first night’s sleep in two years. I knew where she was.”
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
实在没懂， OPPO 出舆情，武大跳出来发什么声明。人秋雅出事儿了，你搁这又唱又跳的，不仅吃相难看，还落井下石。
“Our life is never going to be all right again, but we are doing all right.”
《Things in Nature Merely Grow》 — Yiyun Li
并无直接利益诉求的楚元王刘交却和想当皇帝的齐王刘襄联合“出兵反汉”，齐楚联军的兵锋一路杀到了荥阳，这是否与吕后在临终前最后一次触动刘交“儒者礼法”的神经有关，我们不得而知，却并不能排除这一可能性。
《汉瓦：西汉王朝洪业启示录》 — 刘三解