Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) "80歲感言" On Turning Eighty；董橋新書書名我套用米勒 (Henry Miller) 的《Remember to Remember》題為《記得》偶然走進小鎮幽暗古舊的咖啡館，兩盞吊燈照亮桌球檯面的綠絨布，兩個士兵彎腰對壘，他說那是梵谷的畫了："The mission of man on earth is to remember"。。Taipei People；
今天注意到港版Taipei People封面有他的讚美。去Wikipedia 讀他的簡介，"80歲感言" On Turning Eighty 的摘句有趣。
書名：記得
作者：董橋
出版社：牛津大學出版社
出版日期：2010/4
董橋新書書名我套用米勒 (Henry Miller) 的《Remember to Remember》題為《記得》。作者說是去年聖誕前後的一個清晨，睡醒忽然想起亨利‧米勒，想起《北回歸線》和《南回歸線》，想起Leonora罵他讀米勒的書，想起那本《Remember to Remember》。作者起床開燈找遍書架找不到那本書。翌日翻遍書箱還是找不到，只好上網訂購。過不了三、四天書寄來了，連夜翻讀，真像跟烽火中失散的老朋友重逢，兩鬢斑白，一臉風霜，昔日那份矜貴的關愛猶在：米勒畢竟念舊。他說他和他的女人匍伏在地上看巴黎地鐵地圖，指著地圖上的站名辨認他住過的地方，順著手指的游移回憶他熟悉的地區他走慣的木橋他買醉的酒館。過不了幾年巴黎淪陷了，他說他默默坐在廣場凳子上餵鴿子，「少不了還有希特勒，胃口比鴿子大多了」。偶然走進小鎮幽暗古舊的咖啡館，兩盞吊燈照亮桌球檯面的綠絨布，兩個士兵彎腰對壘，他說那是梵谷的畫了："The mission of man on earth is to remember"。
厚古而不敢薄今，浪漫而不忘務實，米勒懷舊懷的是文化那炷幽明的香火和儒林那份執著的傳承。懷舊懷的是文化那炷幽明的香火和儒林那份執著的傳承。《記得》收作者最新小品四十七篇，都是念人憶事上佳的文化傳承，百讀不厭。
[Classic Revisited] Taipei People
Pai Hsien-yung is among the most important writers in contemporary Chinese and world literature. His masterpiece Taipei People is a classic of Taiwanese modernism; with an intensity of vision comparable to James Joyce’s Dubliners, it follows the individual struggles of the Taipei people, with a mix of compassion, nostalgia, mourning, and tenacious clarity.
This edition includes a new foreword by Prof. David Der-wei (王德威教授) of Harvard University:
“In the aftermath of a century that vowed to revolutionize everything, Pai calls for the capacity to feel, love, and act, as well as the generative power arising therefrom. It is this ‘beam of darkness,’ however ‘untimely,’ that Pai sought to define and redefine in Taipei People fifty years ago, and that he is still engaged in today. ”
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Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.[1][2] His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn and The Rosy Crucifixiontrilogy, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961).[3] He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.[4]
Only 200 copies of Miller's 1972 chapbook On Turning Eighty were published. Published by Capra Press, in collaboration with Yes! Press, it was the first volume of the "Yes! Capra" chapbook series and is 34 pages in length.[53] The book contains three essays on topics such as aging and living a meaningful life. In relation to reaching 80 years of age, Miller explains:
