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 real 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 himself, with all his co-rebels, was plunged into hell and eternal damnation.

        The scene is in the Heavens.

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【《一小时的生存》】

正直•冯德尔(1587生—1679卒)

            我只知道，人必须用脚走路；

            外面是鞋，里面是血。

            它们支撑着，飞不起来的身体。

            关于词——

            声音的身体，词的活尸。

            词汇在第二天早晨，至少散发出口臭。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2017: Cheese Farm near Kinderdijk, NLD(荷兰孩童堤防附近的奶酪农场)

Great Market (大集市广场)

Pier (码头)

Riverfront of Beneden Merwede (下宽河河畔)

Groothoofdspoort in 14-15^th Century (十四—十五世纪的大头门)

Riedijkshaven Bridge (创意港大桥)

Grote-Kerk (大教堂)

Villa Augustus (大庄园)

Water Tower (水塔)

14^th-Century Ruin of Ter Merwe Castle (十四世纪水堡遗址)

DuPont Manufacturing Plant (桥的化工厂)

DuPont Manufacturing Plant (桥的化工厂)

Great Crested Grebe (凤头鸊鷉)

Crosslinks(相关博文):

Netherlands(出游荷兰)

Europe(欧洲掠影)

8th Grade(初中三年级)