Chapter 4 sunday no button

one "Juliet lives in a twenty-five-story building, and there is no more Romeo in this world"; Jesus cut his hair short and wore a full suit of French designer to preside over the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of a computer agency; Dickens Christmas story The miser in the movie suddenly dug out the money box under the bed and donated a bundle of large-denomination banknotes to the Ministry of Defense for military development; Saul Bellow’s Hosso resigned from his professorship at the University of Chicago, carrying a The beautiful briefcase went to be the English secretary of the Arabian oil magnate; Elliott's desolation was bought by real estate developers at a high price, and he worked day and night to build the most modern stock exchange; The young man who came to sell the Encyclopedia Britannica had a tryst in a small inn in London; Chenia Woolf burned the books and manuscripts in the study, moved to New York to run a cassette tape company, and became a famous strong woman in the business world.Van Gogh wandered to Hollywood, painting portraits of popular movie stars along the door; Russell read his works to the mental patients every day in the mental hospital; Cao Xueqin sat on the street in downtown Nanjing and sold paper straw; Zhang Zi wrote family letters for the illiterate Zhang Ma and Li Ma; Lin Qinnan served as the translator of the Taipei branch of a multinational company; Dong Qichang wrote subtitles for a TV series that made jokes; The banquet consultant of the world-class ship tycoon; finally, Chen Yinke is sitting in the amusement park wearing round black glasses and is in charge of operating a computer fortune-telling machine!

two Technology is the opium of the people.Business is the spiritual food of the people.The hard construction of metal and plastic crushed the book windows and east fences made up of paper and bamboo branches.This is the inevitable price of creating a new civilization: Romeo and Juliet no longer have to frown and die; Jesus no longer has to sweat and bleed naked; Eat chalk dust; Elliott no longer have to water that moor; Lady Chatterley no longer has to hide in that log house smelling cheap soap on that man; Virginia Woolf There is no need to stay up late with those literati and painters; Van Gogh no longer has to cut off his ears; Russell no longer has to desperately defend his reason; Cao Xueqin no longer sheds tears; Shen Sanbai no longer needs to worry about Yun Damn it; Lin Qinnan no longer has to worry about the fate of La Traviata; Dong Qichang no longer has to work hard to practice calligraphy; Tang Bohu has no choice; the owner of Suiyuan no longer has to worry about writing poems; What about pen and ink?The leisure and leisure in human culture are all taken over by the button machine.

three That's how things go; there's nothing to complain about.However, it can be said that it is normal to have a feeling of repentance occasionally: "A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a sunday for what be did on saturday is going todo on monday. " Shakespeare is still worth reading.The Bible hides a lot of wisdom.Dickens' story is not empty.Saul Bellow practiced every word and every word.Eliot's poems offer plausible surprises.Lawrence is brave and resourceful.Woolf's pen is as thin as a hair.Van Gogh's color is hot enough to keep out the cold.Russell's hypocrisy is cute.Cao Xueqin is a friend who can chat.Shen Sanbai is considerate.Lin Qinnan's writing can go with wine.Dong Qichang's calligraphy can cultivate one's character.Tang Bohu has talent.Suiyuan's pen and ink are fascinating.Chen Yinke's historical knowledge is too profound!It's a pity that the commercial society of the button era does not allow them to be idle.They don't have Sundays.

Four The word "leisure" is still necessary: ​​"I only want leisure in my life, and my temples are already stained; I want to get rid of idle eyes and ears, and I want to listen to the flowing water and look at the mountains."Modern education no longer needs to focus on teaching people to "work hard", but to teach people to "seek leisure".Spiritual civilization must be passed down under the impact of mechanical civilization, relying on "seeking leisure while busy".Roland Barthes missed the "leisure" of Parisians before the war, saying that in summer evenings, every house in Paris was full of people enjoying the shade, and everyone sat there doing nothing.He said that this kind of leisure is gone in Paris now.He also quoted a very Zen poem:

"Sitting peacefully doing nothing／Spring time is coming and the grass grows all by itself." The social function of literature and art is leisure; "leisure" has its own mission.You should think carefully about this level, and don't get angry.Writers and artists without "leisure" are the most miserable writers and artists.Brother Jin Yaoji said in a letter from Heidelberg: "I am listening to the bell from the old castle on my bed, and the bell has brought your Express; unexpectedly, the Germans even deliver letters on Sunday, and the religious world has shrunk!"

Beds, castles, and bells are all literature and art.You don't have to press girls on Sundays!What was on the mind of the postman who rang the bell to deliver the letter?No wonder Brother Yaoji, who studies sociology, used the word "shrink".