2026-08-23 National Sponge Cake Day 【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) …… How many poems he denied himself In his observant progress, lesser things Than the relentless contact he desired; How many sea-masks he ignored; what sounds He shut out from his tempering ear; what thoughts, Like jades affecting the sequestered bride; And what descants, he sent to banishment! Perhaps the Arctic moonlight really gave The liaison, the blissful liaison, Between himself and his environment, Which was, and is, chief motive, first delight, For him, and not for him alone. It seemed Elusive, faint, more mist than moon, perverse, Wrong as a divagation to Peking, To him that postulated as his theme The vulgar, as his theme and hymn and flight, A passionately niggling nightingale. Moonlight was an evasion, or, if not, A minor meeting, facile, delicate. …… —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《喜劇演員就像字母C之三 | 接近卡羅來納“自由者”州(1921)】 華萊士·史蒂文斯“異鄉人·花環”(1879生—1955卒) 【紅霞譯】 …… 他在觀察中捨棄了多少詩篇—— 那些遠不及 他所渴求的切身交融之物; 多少海之面具被他視而不見;多少聲響 被他拒之於歷經磨礪的耳外;多少思緒—— 如翠玉般點綴着幽居的新娘; 多少變奏曲被他棄置! 或許那北極月光確實促成了 那場聯結——那場充滿極樂的聯結—— 在他與周遭之間; 那曾是,也仍是,主要動力與最初的喜悅, 於他如此,於他人亦然。但這月光 難以捉摸、微弱朦朧,似霧非月,透着乖張, 如同一次偏離至北京的歧途, 對他而言——那個以俗世凡塵 為主題、為讚歌、為飛行所向的 熱烈卻又挑剔的夜鶯。 月光不過是逃避,或即使不然, 也只是短暫的邂逅,輕巧而纖弱。 …… 【注】美國企業家格蘭特·卡多內“高大·刺薊”《10倍法則》(Grant Cardone's The 10X Rule)之五——“時間就是金錢”不是催你快,是提醒你每一段投入的時間,本可換來什麼。花2小時省10塊,若時薪50,你已虧了80。機會成本不在賬面,是更隱蔽的損耗——你選了這個,便放棄了另一個。未被選擇的方向從未出現,卻在你時間的縫隙里,完成了另一種可能的消失。那些被錯置的片刻,會在更長的時間尺度中,沉澱為無法收回的差額。 “效率就是生命”不是更快,是更值。它不讓你緊繃,而是讓你把注意力從投入時長轉移到產出密度。提升技能、優化流程、減少消耗,每一小時的價值都在增值。複利從你投入學習、鍛煉、投資的那一刻開始運轉——微小的積累會在長尺度中長成可依賴的東西。每一次選擇,都在微調你與目標的夾角,直到方向不再需要辨認,因為它已成路徑。 真正的效率是留出完整時間,保護專注。富人投資時間,花錢買專注;窮人省錢花時間,卻看不見那2小時本可數倍回流。一次專注2小時,勝過6小時斷續產出。我開始把真正重要的事放在最前面,才懂得“時間就是金錢”的另一層意思:慢下來,但要朝對的方向。那些不被切割的持續投入,會在你未能察覺的刻度里,累計成一道緩升的曲線——不是可兌現的資產,卻能在時間用盡時,讓你感到未被辜負。那能力,就是我對“效率就是生命”的回應:不是更快,是更值得。因為值得,才能延續。而延續,是時間能給我的最完整的回答。 Today in History(歷史上的今天):
2023: Qaqortoq, the Pearl of S Greenland(丹麥格陵蘭·南島卡科爾托克) 2020: Book Report—A Deep Dive into a Dream(讀書筆記—深入幻想) 2018: Shanghai the Magic City, China(上海—魔城) 2018: Shanghai—Paris of the East, China(上海—東方巴黎) 2018: Shanghai Bund—Pearl of the Orient, CHN(上海外灘—東方明珠) 2018: Shanghai—Starbucks Reserve Roastery, China(上海—星巴克臻選烘焙工坊) 2018: Shanghai—A Bite of Local Cuisine, China(上海—舌尖上的申城) 2018: Shanghai—Lujiazui Financial District(上海—陸家嘴金融貿易區) 2017: Lucerne—Salvation through Christ, CHE(瑞士燈市─救贖之城)
2017: Lucerne—Romantic Pearl of Swiss, CHE(瑞士燈市─浪漫明珠)
2017: Lucerne the Mournful Lion, Swiss(瑞士燈市─垂死獅子像)
2017: Lucerne the Chapel Bridge, Swiss(瑞士燈市─教堂廊橋) 2017: Lucerne—Variety of Standard, Swiss(瑞士燈市─多元文化) 2017: Basel the Fable Basilisk, Swiss(瑞士國王市—蛇王仙境) 2017: Basel—Home to Roche & Novartis, CHE(瑞士國王市—磐石與新藝術藥業總部) 2010: 天大地大(Heaven and Earth) 2009: 證書獎狀獎盃(Awards) Hall of Abstinence, the Isolated Residential Compound for Ming & Qing Dynasty Emperors to Be Fasted & Purified for 3 Days before Conducting Grand Rituals to Worship Heaven, Temple of Heaven
(天壇齋宮·明清兩代皇帝在舉行盛大祭天儀式前與世隔絕、進行淨身齋戒三天的住所 11-24-1988)
The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money in Classic Cyberpunk Pink-and-Blue Color Clash
(經典的賽博朋克“低生活高科技”粉藍配色·富人投資時間,窮人投資金錢) Crosslinks(相關博文):
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