dans la solitude des champs de coton

Delia被打敗了，奇蹟！我想這名單是很準確的，因為是Waitrose免費雜誌裡的文章，而且Jamie Oliver先生榜上無名，更加證實了這分名單的可信度。晚一點再來寫多一點。明天出門之後就是哈利波特加上大富翁的小假期。

以及，關電腦前看到national Theatre寄來的促銷信：確定了麥克李會重出劇場！！！好，我會盡量抽空複習所有麥克李電影。從「甜蜜與謊言」開始好了，因為我每個星期都會到某個車站附近。

七月七日以來，BBC London 大概是我網路點閱率最高的地方吧。

昨天看到他們放到highlight section的某一條，竟然是我家附近的詳盡簡介！！原來是為他們今天（星期天）的節目打廣告：A Thames Tour of Rotherhithe。離我們家最近的地方是介紹步道的第一站，Greenland dock，別忘了點進去看panoramic view。像文章裡面提到的，家附近有一堆倉庫改建的房子，我們家呢，也是其中之一：最早是加拿大穀物公司的根據地，至今已經有百餘年屋齡了，而且是Grade II listed buildings唷！！有了這個真好，就不用自己介紹自己家了。

Rotherhithe Street可能是我最喜歡的倫敦街道之一，也是倫敦最長的路。至於Rotherhithe半島在那呢？請參考一下London 2012 logo ，裡面的彩虹正是泰晤士河的簡約形狀，Rotherhithe在「N」、「D」轉「1」的河南邊（那一塊凹下來河北邊是Canary Wharf），接著的「O」就是The Dome約略的位置。（看過007那集【The World is Not Enough】?電影開始的泰晤士河追逐賽，就後就是以龐德掉到The Dome屋頂作終的。）

既 然提到奧運。 是的，應該有人知道我是支持倫敦申奧的，而且我相信非常有魄力的市長先生現在應該會至少做到奧運結束。 當各大國代表團前往新加坡做最後準備時，其實已經差不多預祝了倫敦的勝利了。從這就知道：某國總統說，主辦奧運的城市應該要在世界上最好的城市，但是，這 句話最好是不要講的，講了就成了敗筆。很多人不但對這句話不以為然，還深深厭惡呢。於是，這位申奧不遺餘力的總統，就這樣把host city拱手讓給倫敦。賀喜倫敦。

許多人因為交通問題不看好倫敦。這，我想這些人心裡的倫 敦大約等於The City and Westminster：East London = The City, West London = The Westminster。那我除了井底之蛙之外無話可對這些人說。這些人應該要看一看龐德的泰晤士追逐賽。

任何一個研讀過Deleuze ＆ Guattari的人 （oppose to those merely quoting them），最討厭看到的敘述或論述或是妳隨便叫它甚麼，大約是含有這些子句者：「像DG這樣的後現代主義者」、「隨意拼貼隨機取樣 是DG提倡的手法」、「在全球化的影響之下，DG的遊牧是無可避免的後果」、「DG從拉岡的精神分析出發，提倡精神分裂分 析」、、、

我的說法是，看到這樣的句子，那篇文章部落格或隨便妳叫它甚麼，只管稱那個東西道聽途說就是了，連第二眼都不用看。

既然我（還？）不是權威學者，那引用權威學者說的話就好了（大家都只吃權威這一套，沒辦法，不是權威也要說是權威），講最常見的後現代：

this term is not used by DG. We feel it is a misapplication to call them postmodernists, if that is taken to mean a concern with slippage or excess of meaning from the free play of signifiers. (Bonta and Protevi: 2004)


這種東西迷信的程度，跟認為會法文就會翻譯DG或是了解DG是差不多的（DG如果代換成F大師等也通）。試問，會中文的人就一定讀得懂老子嗎？換了一種語 言，相同的criteria也應該一併沿用吧？不然這樣好了，看看DG英文版的譯者，哪一個不是嚴謹的Deleuze scholars？

誰叫我沒事訂了google alarm，這些東西都會自己跑來信箱裡。無事生非莫過。

（光 想那堆還沒建書目檔的資料---光算資料夾好了，一個資料夾放五十個entries，20個資料夾就，那這還只有資料夾，不包括書或書裡的文章或我家小拍 裡的PDF檔---我就會，恩，"unduly panicking"，那我還管這些hearsays? 不過還是要適當地發牢騷紓解壓力。 XD ）

Time Out London had used bold black typeface, against white background, to enunciate "Our City," as its latest cover. I do have a lot to say, about the spectacular week starting from 3 July. However, I was pretty occupied by all sorts of things. (I can't even afford time for shopping at Harvey Nichols!!! Pity!!!) In addition, I have no intention to provide an insider account, only for the reason that I am living in London for nearly 4 years.

Before posting anything on our city, let me just quote a section from Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's novel with flair:

There are some people whose motives don't deserve further investigation, even though these may have led them to commit the most terrible acts or precisely they did. I know this goes completely against the current trend. Nowadays everyone wonders what leads a serial killer or mass murderer to kill or murder serially or en masse, or what makes a collector of rapes constantly add to his collection, what makes a terrorist, in the name of some primitive cause, despise all life and try to put an end to the lives of as many other people as possible, what makes a tyrant endlessly tyrannise or a torturer endlessly torture, be it in the name of bureaucracy or sadism. There’s an obsession with understanding the loathsome, there’s an unhealthy fascination with it, and it does the loathsome a huge favour. I don't share the modern world’s infinite curiosity about something that can never be justified, however many different explanations you come up with, psychological, sociological, biological, religious, historical, cultural, patriotic, political, idiosyncratic, economic, anthropological, it doesn't matter. I’m not going to waste my time on the bad and the pernicious, its interest, I can assure you, is minimal at best and usually nil, I’ve seen plenty of it. Evil tends to be simple, although not always that simple, if you know what I mean. But there are some investigations that sully the investigator, and even some that infect you without giving anything valuable back in return.

ps. I am in terribily bad moods recently because of an obnoxious guy who happened to be my boss of some kinds and I was forced to exchange many e-mails because of his stupidity and don't want to bother myself to change my input method on this entry but don't worry my account on "our city" will be in Chinese but cannot promise when. <---like this writing style? that's my supervisor's and I've adpoted it when making serious complaints. (I belive all of you know, had I complained anything, an apology would given.)

Welcome back, Venus Williams!!!

(這麼重要的事情，自己的blog沒放一下狂賀幾聲還真對不起自己！剩下的以後再說...)