与父亲的奥德赛

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• A father makes his son out of his flesh and out of his mind and then shaps him with his ambitions and dreams, with his cruelties and failures, too. But a son, although he is of his father, cannot know his father totally, because the father precedes him; his father has always already lived so much more than the son has, so that the son can never catch up, can never know everything. No wonder the Greeks thought that few sons are the equals of their fathers; that most fall short, all too few surpass them. It's not about value; it's about knowledge. The father knows the son whole, but the son can never know his father. (查看原文)

  雁云 6赞 2020-10-30 23:09:24

• 因此，一九七八年八月下旬的某个下午，我终于从大学书店返回寝室，翻开《希腊语新导论》，硬麻布封面略有些扎手，纸页冰冷，触感如切片苹果一般，彼时我感受到了一种特殊的愉悦，唯有当你身为一名学子，即将开始学习期待已久的课程时，方可能有此体会:一种奇妙的混杂了满足与期待、富足与匮乏的兴奋感。我草草翻阅了几章，不解的双眼急切扫视着大量词形变化与一组组动词变位，黑色希腊字母如昆虫般齐齐排列于纸间。但好在课程进展飞速——书中每张讲解一整条语法规则，我们一节课就涵盖一章内容,每周五节课,由上午9九授课至九点五十——那些起初看似随意胡乱的标记很快合并为词汇，如名词、形容词、副词、动词等，呈现出各种可能的形态。 其中我最爱复杂精致、细节丰富的动词体系。部分原因在于，希腊语的种种附加语法要素特征暗含了某种对精确的痴迷，极为诱人。例如，希腊语中有一种词形，既非单数，亦非复数，称之为“双数”，只能用于形容多以成双成对形式出现的事物——如两头牛双，双眼，双手——相较之下，高中法语课上所学的熟悉的词形变化就显得贫乏而不精确。再者，希腊语中有一种迷人而奇异的“中动态”，与我在英语课上学过的主动态或被动态均有所不同，它指一种主动被动合二为一的语态，此时主语宾语为同一个体。希腊语只用一个单词便优雅地完成了叠加，而英语中要达到同样的效果，只得追加反身代词，尤为别扭。 最让我深受震撼的是动词时态的变位，简直令人难以置信。这种时间意义的转换，以前缀即词尾变化为标志，前缀如水晶般凝结于此词首，位于单词末端的后缀则犹如从茶匙滴落托碟的蜜液。 (查看原文)

  Gavagai 4赞 2022-10-15 23:57:56

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