2009-01-14 08:13:07Yvette
「五月十六彼一工....」
台長因為閱卷斷糧，所以去穀倉翻找，沒想到居然挖到珍珠來獻寶。
這是席德在『一九八四』那一篇的留言，恐怕是因為我問到周老師的關係，他就想起他和他的老闆相處的時光來了。
留言很難找到，拿出來放在正文才不會可惜了作者的才華。以下就是 Sidney 的「留言」。
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About "commencement", I accidentally saw a piece of stationery on which some paragraphs were typed with a typewriter. The date can be traced back to when I worked as a TA at Feng Chia University. But did I write this article? I am in doubt. I mean, how could I have been once so wordy? I would like to ask for your opinion. The article is as the following:
Random Remarks on Commencement
May 16, 1989
Seven and a score of commencements have been held on this campus. Regardless of whatever mixed feelings people may have, ecstasy or melancholy, the “staged” departure ceremony must be once again performed on June the twenty-sixth.
I do not intend to make satiric comments; however, commencement is the time to display sense and sensibility, coupled with sobriety or insanity. For illustration, the following anecdote may make my connotation clear: Coming back from his midsummer night madness, a graduate, with his still high spirit and exhausted body, might emerge from the back rows in the ceremony hall. He is too tired to have deep concentration upon the plots on the stage, although the ambience smells like what is in a medieval drama. Neither can he tell who the protagonist is—among those gorgeously attired VIP’s who are invited to give speeches. He is a little bit confused. Then he begins recalling those boogie woogies at that graduation dancing party and bursts into laughter when he is almost on the verge of going berserk.
Actually some of the collegians “leave” campus before commencement. They skip tough courses, they play truant from classes, and they walk out of academic asceticism. As to the aspect of their social life, these conceited epicureans, in fact, lead a forlorn life, isolated from true and amiable friendship, instructive instillation, and collective inculcation. All the phenomena reflect a fantasia of phobia for college life.
Commencement can be a monument for some other students. They run in the academic race with a good mileage and establish the mile stone high and grand. They are intelligent, broad-minded, dynamic stoics with basic virtues such as diligence, honesty, and decency. Nevertheless, the propensity of independent thinking and inquisitive spirit is attributed to their remarkable success in college life.
The flame trees are in bloom, and the departure must come, no matter how hard one holds on to what is destined to be left behind. Both easy-goers and workaholics are going to face whatever graduation means to them. Yet, it shows a good sense of magnitude if the connotation of commencement is taken into serious consideration. Certainly, it is not a full stop to one’s education, and we wish everyone who goes out with his diploma a blossomy prospect.
一九八四，雨教同學畢業。
一九八六，雨教B組男生退伍。
一九八九年，周小生寫完這個感言是不是就跟著這群畢業生一起畢業了呀？
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpd3raj8xww&feature=channel
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/como-061808.html
附圖這一場史丹佛畢業演講不知道可以開啟多少心靈？還是另一場不痛不癢的儀式？蔣勳說：「劫數不能過渡讓與，滄桑還是要親自體驗。」這種演講通常也只是聊備一格，讓在場的中年人點頭而已。年輕人不去摔一下，很難理解啦！我們大一英文那一篇 "If I Were a Freshman Again" 就是這樣開場。
歐普拉的演講還是「演員表現方式」，有些地方不登大雅。攏總來說，內容還不錯，只是一貫枝節冗長，「非常女性文學」，證明她一直同時使用左右腦在說話。
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