It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude; enjoying a crowd is an art; and only he can relish a debauch of vitality at the expense of the human species, on whom, in his cradle, a fairy has bestowed the love of masks and masquerading, the hate of home, and the passion for roaming.
Multitude, solitude: identical terms, and interchangeable by the active and fertile poet. The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself of someone else, as he chooses. Like those wandering souls who go looking for a body, he enters as he likes into each man's personality. For him alone everything is vacant; and if certain places seem closed to him, it is only because in his eyes they are not worth visiting.
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all it poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
It is a good thing sometimes to teach the fortunate of this world, if only to humble for an instant their foolish pride, that there are higher joys than theirs, finer and more uncircumscribed. The founders of colonies, shepherds of peoples, missionary priests exiled to the ends of the earth, doubtlessly know something of this mysterious drunkenness; and in the midst of the vast family created by their genius, they must often laugh at those who pity them because of their troubled fortunes and chaste lives.
這首歌也在我的DM Top 10之一。只有DM的歌才能有這麼細膩的編曲，繁複卻不冰冷。聽這首歌總是給我一種悲喜交集(bittersweet)的感受。
最近的心情很複雜，太多的事情在我心中糾結在一起，有些事又無法言喻。 To put it simply, let's have a black celebration tonight.
其實這首歌的現場版比錄音室裡的更棒。
Black Celebration
Lead singer: Dave Gahan Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing info: (c)1986 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Lyrics electronically reprinted with permission. Appears on: "Black Celebration" album
Let's have a black celebration Black celebration Tonight
To celebrate the fact That we've seen the back Of another black day
I look to you How you carry on When all hope is gone Can't you see
Your optimistic eyes Seem like paradise To someone like Me
I want to take you In my arms Forgetting all I couldn't do today
Black celebration Black celebration Tonight
To celebrate the fact That we've seen the back Of another black day
I look to you And your strong belief Me, I want relief Tonight
Consolation I want so much Want to feel your touch Tonight
Take me in your arms Forgetting all you couldn't do today
Black celebration I'll drink to that Black celebration Tonight
Publishing info: (c)1987 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Lyrics electronically reprinted with permission.
Appears on: "Music For The Masses" album
I heard it from my friends About the things you said I heard it from my friends About the things you said But they know me better than that They know me better than that They know my weaknesses I never tried to hide them They know my weaknesses I never denied them
I heard it from my friends About the things you said I heard it from my friends About the things you said How can a view become so twisted How can a view become so twisted They know my weaknesses I never tried to hide them They know my weaknesses You tried them
I get so carried away You brought me down to earth I thought we had something precious Now I know what it's worth
I heard it from my friends About the things you said I heard it from my friends About the things you said I've never felt so disappointed Never felt so disappointed They know my weaknesses I never tried to hide them They know my weaknesses Thought that you liked them
說到"sensuality"，就讓我想起了Depeche Mode的一首歌"World Full of Nothing"，是由Martin唱的（耶！）。藉由一些感官的描寫，來表現內心的情感。我喜歡那歌中帶著的淡淡不安、淡淡悲哀。
一樣有不才的翻譯
World Full Of Nothing
Lead singer: Martin L. Gore Songwriter: Martin L. Gore Publishing info: (c)1986 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Lyrics electronically reprinted with permission. Appears on: "Black Celebration" album
Close 貼近 Naked 赤裸 Skin on skin 肌膚相親 Tears are falling 眼淚滴落 Tears of joy 喜悅之淚 Her first boy 她的第一個男孩 His first girl 他的第一個女孩 Makes a change 一切即將改變
In a world full of nothing 在充滿空虛的世界裡 Though it's not love 雖然這不是愛 It means something 卻代表著什麼
She's lonely 她很寂寞 And he says 而他說 It's for her only 只有她 That he lusts 是他渴望的人 She doesn't trust him 她不相信 Nothing is true 沒有事情是真實的 But he will do 但此時他已足夠
In a world full of nothing 在充滿空虛的世界裡 Though it's not love 雖然這不是愛 It means something 卻代表者什麼
It's easy to slip away 多麼容易就會消逝 And believe it all 然後相信一切
Though it's not love 雖然這不是愛 It means something 卻代表著什麼
這不禁讓我想起一些Depeche Mode的歌，特別是"A Question of Time"。歌詞裡的"I"實在不太像Martin本人，是個壞人。
歌詞： （有不才的翻譯）
A Question Of Time
Lead singer: Dave Gahan Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing info: (c)1986 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Lyrics electronically reprinted with permission.
Appears on: "Black Celebration" album "The Singles 86>98" album "A Question Of Time" single
I've got to get to you first 我一定要在他們之前 Before they do 先得到妳 It's just a question of time 只是時間早晚的問題 Before they lay their hands on you 他們會對妳下手 And make you just like the rest 對待妳和其他女孩子沒有不同 I've got to get to you first 我必須先得到妳 It's just a question of time 只是時間早晚的問題
Well now you're only fifteen 妳現在只有十五歲 And you look good 而且長得漂亮 I'll take you under my wing 我想在我的羽翼下保護妳 Somebody should 總有人得這麼做 They've persuasive ways 他們這些人能言善道 And you'll believe what they say 而妳對他們的話深信不疑
It's just a question of time 只是時間早晚的問題 It's running out for you 不斷逼近妳 It won't be long 不久之後 Until you do 妳就會去做 Exactly what they want you to 他們希望妳做的事
I can see them now Hanging around 我看到他們這些人在妳身旁團團轉 To mess you up 玷污妳 To strip you down 侵犯妳 And have their fun 與我的小女孩 With my little one 同樂
It's just a question of time 只是時間早晚的問題 It's running out for you 不斷逼近妳
It won't be long 不久之後 Until you do 妳就會去做 Exactly what they want you to 他們希望妳做的事
It won't be long 不久之後 Until you do 妳就會去做 Exactly what they want you to 他們希望妳做的事
Sometimes I don't blame them 有時候我無法責怪他們 For wanting you 對妳不懷好意 You look good 妳長得漂亮 And they need something to do 他們也需要目標 Until I look at you 直到我見到妳 And then I condemn them 我譴責他們這種行為 I know my kind 但我知道我和他們是同類 What goes on in our minds 我們這種人心裡的念頭是什麼
It's just a question of time 只是時間早晚的問題 It should be better 一切會很美好 It's just a question of time 只是時間早晚的問題 It should be better with you 和妳在一起會很美好 It's just a question of time 只是時間早晚的問題
Lead singer: Martin L. Gore Songwriter: Martin L. Gore Publishing info: (c)1992 Grabbing Hands Music Overseas/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Lyrics electronically reprinted with permission. Appears on: "Songs Of Faith And Devotion" album
Is simplicity best Or simply the easiest The narrowest path Is always the holiest So walk on barefoot for me Suffer some misery If you want my love If you want my love
Man will survive The harshest conditions And stay alive Through difficult decisions So make up your mind for me Walk the line for me If you want my love If you want my love
Idle talk And hollow promises Cheating Judases Doubting Thomases Don't just stand there and shout it Do something about it
You can fulfill Your wildest ambitions And I'm sure you will Lose your inhibitions So open yourself for me Risk your health for me If you want my love If you want my love If you want my love If you want my love
明明已經忙到焦頭爛額，不過自從上禮拜開始接觸這個網站之後，它一直能讓我開心。 ^^
說到Firefox，讓我想到今天，不，應該是昨天，在總圖二樓的雜誌區驚鴻一瞥，看到某本IEEE雜誌的封面寫著"The Firefox Miracle（還是"Story"，我記不清了）"，立刻吸引了我的注意。
昨天在電視上看到影集版的Cleopatra，一連串大概三小時左右。
自從看完昆德拉的"The Unbearable Lightness of Being"，就一直對他的作品無法忘懷，好像有種使命，非多讀幾本不可。但是因為自己懶惰，上學期就借的"Immortality"竟拖到寒假才看完。
