Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?

It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.

When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;

And one especially do we affect

Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:

The reason no man knows; let it suffice
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

.....Christopher Marlowe

我們無法主宰自己的愛與恨，

一切皆是命運的安排。

在我們赤裸之前，我們的愛戀便已註定!

在我們的眼哩，思想哩，愛是如此輕蔑:

曾經戀愛過的人，哪個不是一見鐘情?

重點是，要如何長長遠遠.....!!

想你....

ps. How can a happy, innocent, musical baby know about the hardship of life and love?? :) So, he should not be born........

金色筆記 21: 威尼斯的船歌

有一首鋼琴曲，威尼斯的船歌，

孟德爾頌的無言歌集哩，最喜歡的曲子。

十歲時彈著這首曲子，

盼望著有這麼一天，和心愛的人，

在威尼斯的獨木舟裡擁吻....

十年前來到了夢幻的威尼斯，

卻是攝氏零度的冬日，

與家人朋友親人，

冷冷清清的水都格外的蒼涼；

今年來到了節慶的威尼斯，

喜歡在獨木舟裡仰望星空，

感受甜甜蜜蜜的溫暖....

別再問我是否是幻想....。

今夜

我戴上威尼斯特製的面具，

穿上你為我訂制的金色禮服，

走入一圈又一圈的派對；

像在慾望之翼裡的熱情，放縱與瘋狂...

只因，想你...好想你。

The Royal Crecent : in the film "the Dutches"

The Royal Crescent is a residential road of 30 houses, where noble people lived in, laid out in a crescent, in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a grade I listed building.

金色筆記 20 :Jane Austen ( 1775-1817) : A critic and a Feminist from 200 years ago

1 A Royal Crescent: in Bath
2The "cottage" : in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austen's House Museum

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.

I was inpired by "Educating Alice" , of which the aruthor A. Steinbeck reaches out her curiosity in many fields, especially in travaling to England, the path of locating Jane Auten. Austen, a Sagittarius, does not seem so ancient to me as I suddenly dived into her year of birth, 1775, finding that the whole social climbing, male chauvinism, and feminist theory, have never changed much since her time.

Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1817) (posthumous)
Persuasion (1817) (posthumous)

The Prophet 4: Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran :

I love you, whatever you are, wherever you are...whether you are praying in the temple or kneeling in a church...

1. Where he was born :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjN2NK0NvA

2. He Speaks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHl9fmAr6pM&feature=related

Prophet 3 :

Prophet on love/marriage:
Let there be spaces in your togetherness;
And let the winds of the heaven dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of our bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together.

讓天堂的風在彼此之間舞踏
注滿彼此的酒杯卻不同飲一杯
彼此相愛 卻不要成為愛的枷鎖
一同跳舞放懷歡欣 卻各保有自我
只有生命之手才能包容你的心...
讓生命擁有愛的廣大胸懷...

On Love...: From the Prophet 2

Love: Like Sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himelf.
He threshes you to make you naked...
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleaure.

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness
and pass out of love' threshing-floor.
Into the seaonless world where you shall laugh,
but not all of your laughter, and weep , but not all of your tears...


Prophet 說；愛...
他採集你 好比一捆穀子
他鞭茦你以使你裸露..

但如果你在懼怯中 只想尋求愛的平安和愉悅
那麼不如遮掩著你的裸體
離開愛的打榖場
進入那無季節的世界
在那兒你將歡笑
但不是全心的笑
你將哭泣
但不是盡情的哭..

On Love...: From the Prophet

When love beckons to you, follow him
Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him.
Though his voice may shatter your dreams a the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and careses your tenderest branche that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

問世間，情是何物?

問世間，情是何物？ 直教人生死相許。
天南地北雙飛客， 老翅幾回寒暑。

歡樂趣，離別苦，就中更有痴兒女。
君應有語，渺萬里層雲。
千山暮雪，隻影向誰去？

金色筆記 19 : 來會我吧, 夜裡

手裡翻著瑞典的設計經濟學，突然閃過這樣的畫面....

出現，是不是，因為我睡著了，
想著你？ 早知是夢 就永遠不要醒來。

當慾望變得極其強烈，
我反穿睡衣， 暗如夜之殼。
我知道在醒來的世界
我們必得如此， 但多殘酷啊—— 即便在夢中 我們也須躲避黑熊的眼光。

對你無限 思念，
來會我吧
夜裡， 至少在夢徑上 沒有人阻擋。

雖然我沿著夢徑 不停地走向你， 但
那樣的幽會加起來 還不及清醒世界允許的
匆匆一瞥。

此愛是真，是夢？ 　

想為自己採 忘憂草 　
觸碰不到我的溫度， 在這圓月的夜，
我醒著渴望你。
我的胸口淌著淚，
我的內心在燃燒。