The New Yorker, 2008-07-21

" Streetscapes: Fish Story " / Mike Peed __ The pet shark may be the new pit bull—the mascot of the outsized ego, the Hummer of the living room. " Surfing the Universe " / Benjamin Wallace-Wells {Lubos!} " Buy Shanghai " / Patricia Marx __ The astonishingly encyclopedic selection of bootleg DVDs and boxed sets at a little outlet called Movie World are a genuine steal (378 ...

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The New Yorker, 2007-02-05

" Boomtown Blues " / Alexander Fuller __ hydraulic fracturing... (tiny particles of sand suspended in a gel are blasted into the rock under extreme pressure, holding it open long enough to allow the gas to escape - a process that shakes the windows of houses as much as a mile away.) __ A place in the throes of an energy boom isn't so different from a person in the throes of an addiction: ...

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diving at mitbbs, no. 11

吓得我不小心打了个喷嚏，又从书架顶端震落一本形散神不散的外斯科夫《二十世纪物理学》，钱江被问得愣了一下，茫然地看了我一会，终于很不解地说，你难道不知道鸟是分作鸣禽、猛禽、攀禽、游禽、涉禽的么？好像一个无家可归的流浪汉，恭恭敬敬地举着一个分文不值的瓦罐，一本正经地逢人便讲这是他从某个孤坟荒冢里挖出的商朝军用水壶看到这句话，我献给这位理想主义者的，刨却同情，就真的不剩什么了。比如数学物理方法，一学期下来，只会解方块、圆柱和球，碰到复杂一点的情况，就只好做以上三种的近似。有时候甚至显得繁琐，比如“池塘”，方为池，圆为塘， {My first encounter with Chinese address bar?} 说不太清 ...

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"Out of Africa"

Old Knudsen : The scheme (of lifting the hundread thousand tons of guano dropped at the bottom of Lake Naivasha) had in it all the elements dear to his heart: deep water, birds, hidden treasures; it had even a flavour of the things that one ought not to talk... The mise-en-scene of the art of charcoal-burning is in itself as lovely as possible... in this stillness and shade of the African ...

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《文化苦旅》

江南小镇: {我当然是来晚了。朱家角的清净处寻着一些，但没过瘾。} 那就是躲开了一种再亲见不过的人文文化，躲开了一种把自然与人情搭建得无比巧妙的生态环境，堂皇转眼凋零，喧腾是短命的别名。想来想去，没有比江南小镇更足以成为一种淡泊而安定的生活表征的了。让生命熨帖在既清静又方便的角落，我们身边擦过一条船，船头坐了两位服饰齐整的老太，看来是走亲戚去的，我们的船驶得太快，把水沫溅到老太的新衣服上了，老太撩了撩衣服下摆，嗔色地指了指我们，我们连忙拱手道歉，老太立即和善地笑了。这里街市很安静，而河道却很热闹，很多很多的船来往交错，也有不少船驳在岸边装卸货物，更有一些人从这条船跳到那条船，连跳几条到一个地方去，就像市井间借别人家的过道穿行。我们的船挤人这种热闹中，舒舒缓缓地在前走。 ...

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The New Yorker, 2007-04-02 +

" Up in the Sky Dept.: Rare Bird " / Andrew Blum " The Taming of the Chef " / Bill Buford __ This was the modern privilege of the restaurant experience: to be served and made happy without ever quite knowing how it was happening. " The Pope and Islam " / Jane Kramer __ "Theological dialogue between religions is no sooner born than it dies. Theological language is not Socratic....

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quotes at random, no. 35 - from Ekrem's trivia calenda

The correct response to the Irish greeting "Top of the morning to you" is "And the rest of the day to yourself." A baby caribou can outrun its mother by the time it is three days old. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada. Pirates thought wearing earrings would improve their eyesight. Lincoln's mother died of drinking milk from a cow that ate poisonous ...

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"Out of Africa"

Night, rain, etc: To Arabia and Africa, where the sun of the midday kills you, night is the time for travelling and enterprise. ... You start Safaris by the new moon, to have the benefit of the whole row of moonlight nights. People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like ...

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《文化苦旅》

都江堰: __ 脸面渐觉滋润，眼前愈显清朗，也没有谁指路，只向更滋润、更清朗的去处走。忽然，天地间开始有些异常，一种隐隐然的骚动，一种还不太响却一定是非常响的声音，充斥周际。如地震前兆，如海啸将临，如山崩即至，浑身起一种莫名的紧张，又紧张得急于趋附。不知是自己走去的还是被它吸去的，终于陡然一惊，我已站在伏龙馆前，眼前，急流浩荡，大地震颤。三峡: 余光中《寻李白》诗云：　　　　酒入豪肠，七分酿成了月光　　剩下的三分啸成剑气　　绣口一吐就半个盛唐 __ 郦道元...还用最省俭的字句刻划过三峡春冬之时的“清荣峻茂”，晴初霜旦的“林寒涧肃”， __ 一个人口亿众的民族，长久享用着几个残缺的神话。洞庭一角: __ 许多文化遗迹也就是贬官行迹。... 只好与山水亲热。 __ ...

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mefi quote, no. 46

I have never before seen the OED call an attempted etymology "inept". posted by Flunkie at 5:18 AM on May 6 More and more of my childhood is vanishing into the void. It's like losing the ground from underneath you. My father and grandfather both talked about this happening to them. How you cede your cultural relevancy and grounding to another generation and it makes you feel a little ...

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