2017-08-17

【The Argument】

Joost van den Vondel (1587—1679)

        Lucifer, the Archangel, chief and most illustrious of all the Angels, proud and ambitious, out of blind self-love envied God and His boundless greatness; he also became jealous of man, made in God's image, to whom, in his delightful Paradise, was entrusted the sovereignty of the earth.

        He envied God and man the more when Gabriel, God's Herald, proclaiming all Angels to be but ministering Spirits, revealed the mysteries of God's future incarnation, whereby, the Angels being passed by, the fundamental nature of man, united with the Godhead, might expect power and majesty equal to God's own. Wherefore, the proud and envious Spirit, attempting to place himself on an equality with God, and to keep the man out of Heaven, through his accomplices, incited to arms innumerable Angels, and led them, notwithstanding Rafael's warning, against Michael. Heaven's Field-marshal, and his legions; and ceasing the fight, after his defeat, he caused, out of revenge, the first man, and in him all his descendants, to fall, while he, with all his co-rebels, was plunged into hell and eternal damnation.

        The scene is in the Heavens.

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【《一小時的生存》】

正直•馮德爾(1587生—1679卒)

            我只知道，人必須用腳走路；

            外面是鞋，裡面是血。

            它們支撐着，飛不起來的身體。

            關於詞——

            聲音的身體，詞的活屍。

            詞彙在第二天早晨，至少散發出口臭。

【注】多德雷赫特“通道”是南荷蘭省最古老的城市，當地人被稱作羊頭。自18世紀起，其經濟地位被鹿特丹取代。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2017: Cheese Farm near Kinderdijk, NLD(荷蘭孩童堤防附近的奶酪農場)

Great Market in Dordrecht

(多德雷赫特“通道”城·大集市廣場)

Pier (碼頭)

Riverfront of Beneden Merwede (下寬河河畔)

Groothoofdspoort in 14-15^th Century (十四—十五世紀的大頭門)

Riedijkshaven Bridge (創意港大橋)

Grote-Kerk (大教堂)

Villa Augustus (大莊園)

Water Tower (水塔)

14^th-Century Ruin of Ter Merwe Castle (十四世紀水堡遺址)

DuPont Manufacturing Plant (橋的化工廠)

DuPont Manufacturing Plant (橋的化工廠)

Great Crested Grebe (鳳頭鸊鷉)

Crosslinks(相關博文):

Netherlands(出遊荷蘭)

Europe(歐洲掠影)

8th Grade(初中三年級)