The professor forgot to pay the parking fee while driving out from the campus because he never needed a temporary parking card for all those years. The security guard ran out from the post, chasing the silver car, and finally caught the professor’s attention by the intersection. He saw the professor drowning in that driver’s seat . . .
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男孩仍然記得，爸爸曾經告訴過他，生命起源於海洋，即便他從沒在海裡看過任何一條魚。小鎮的中心是一座舊漁港，夏秋之際，洋流的方向變換，從遠方的海帶來大量的塑膠碎片——它們是一個多世紀以來，不同世代的人們，代謝掉的物質生活 . . .
Aug 2024 | Read more
和 Y 在布拉格碰面的週末，在推特看到柏林有民宅被貼上了六芒星。一開始半信半疑，直到《Tagesspiegel》上也出現相同的資訊。那是哈瑪斯突襲以色列的隔週，或是以色列封鎖加薩走廊的隔週——兩者終究是不同的敘事 . . .
Oct 2023 | Read more
曾經住過的德國城市，從中央車站搭上往大學方向的電車，會先行經地下路段，然後爬出地面，順著四線道一路往南。出站後下樓梯，右轉，路過超市與加油站、上坡和下坡後抵達宿舍。整座城市座落在一片綿延的丘陵上，彷彿因此有了呼吸。輕軌駛過 Waldring 後，會在回到地面的前一刻熄燈 . . .
Aug 2023 | Read more
The doctor was late, Collins knew. She usually visited the ward before sunset, in this particular season, before the shadow could touch the second cabinet on the left-hand side. There were much to do in the hospital, but Collins would prefer to watch time flowing by . . .
Mar 2023 | Read more
As one of the most low-profile bands in Taiwan, Little Shy on Allen Street sneakily released their second album Suffering with very little marketing exposure. In spite of the members’ extensive activities in the music industry, the band has attracted rather few fans—I even doubt if they deliberately make the size of their audience manageable to ensure higher fan loyalty . . .
Dec 2022 | Read more
有人問過我到達德國的第一件事要做什麼，我的回答是去 The Holy Cross Brewing Society 喝一杯咖啡。我一直對這間店有種特別的好感，一來是因為外文店名要取到十個音節長實在不太容易，二來是它陰錯陽差成為我交換學期的最後回憶 . . .
Oct 2022 | Read more
It occurred to Ting on the Millennium Bridge that she once walked across the same place with her mother in breeze and sunshine that resembled those of this day. Two decades ago, Ting was still a student, and her mother an ordinary tourist, eager to visit the bridge owing to a report on its reopen after the wobbling first attempt . . .
Sep 2022 | Read more
A temple—as simple as it may seem—does a lot more than perform religious services in a city like Taipei, which appears intense in its urban design and the pace of modern life. Most temples house Taoism deities that were introduced to the island in the Qing dynasty . . .
Jun 2022 | Read more
When Noah told Abraham and Adam about his discovery of a new kind of plastic, they considered him lying. “It can’t be.” Abraham commented, “it must be something already exists, like a toy. People used to make that sort of useless things . . .
May 2022 | Read more
廣島一直存在我的願望清單當中，濱口竜介的《在車上》（2021）從這座在戰後荒蕪中重建的城市中，發掘出獨有的寧靜氛圍。渡利美沙紀在焚化爐向家福悠介解釋，貫穿建物的走廊 Ecorium 和城市軸線對齊 . . .
Mar 2022 | Read more
Shortlisted Booker Prize 2021, Anuk Arudpragasam’s A Passage North stands out among the competitors owing to its unique origin, Sri Lanka. I’ve read few South Asian books, and it’s fortunate that the current one is included. Frankly speaking, it isn’t easy to read . . .
Dec 2021 | Read more
心理的微妙之處在於，我們越是想化繁為簡地進行詮釋，往往越會踏上化簡為繁的不歸路。就像兩名燈塔看守人，越想結束勞動離開荒島，越迷失在人性邊界的陷阱中，步步淪陷 . . .
Nov 2021 | Read more
Snow had already fallen when Elouise left home for the first time in a month to meet Jane at a café. By the time the illness started to disturb Elouise, she still needed the fan to fall asleep at night. Then she grew weaker every day, and the surrounding colder . . .
Oct 2021 | Read more
I can hardly remember My Little Airport ever disappointing their fans. It’s not a difficult task, especially for a band having released ten albums. People criticise their once-beloved bands out of two reasons . . .
Aug 2021 | Read more
If there is one very moment that shaped to the greatest extent the contemporary cultural industry, 23 April, 2005, the day on which the first video on YouTube was uploaded, might not be qualified because YouTube delivers limited multimedia. Not to mention 2004, the year Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, or 2010, when Instagram was introduced to the world . . .
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從某個時刻起，智慧型手機變成流行的象徵，或者精確的說，承載流行的容器。國中時 Angry Birds、Temple Run 風靡一時，智慧型手機卻尚未普及，於是大家被迫三五成群地圍在特定的座位上，看走在時代尖端的人用前所未見的方式，操縱螢幕裡的一切 . . .
Jun 2021 | Read more
When I read the introduction of Klara and the Sun for the first time, I couldn’t help but think of Never Let Me Go, owing to the similarities in setting, narrative, and themes. After all, as the first novel Kazuo Ishiguro published after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, Klara and the Sun could easily end up as either a cliche or a creative disaster . . .
Apr 2021 | Read more
一直說不太上來到底喜歡風籟坊哪裡。大學的尾聲客串友人在政大的電台節目，第一首歌就播〈船帆露水〉，聊到選這首歌的原因，印象中只說了一句：「它的行進有一種從容的感覺。」應該還有些言不及義的話，不過想必沒什麼說服力。那時他們剛開始重新活動不到一年 . . .
Mar 2021 | Read more
It had been a week since Eliza learned the gossip on the toilet. “The security said he followed her home every day,” she heard, before the brief dialogue was terminated by a series of crispy footsteps . . .
Aug 2020 | Read more