因为今天铺了垫被，现在睡得有点奇怪
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E.B.怀特绝妙的鹅滑冰的故事
「There is a small pond down in the pasture and the geese use it for a swimming pool. They start from the barnyard, walking slowly; then as they get nearer the water, they break into a run; and then they spread their wings, take to the air, and land on the pond with a splash. But one night, early last winter, the pond froze during the night. The young geese had never seen ice, and knew nothing about it. They started for the pond, sailed into the air, and when they came down for a landing, their feet struck the ice and they skidded the whole length of the pond and crashed into the opposite bank. That’s how they learned about ice.」
Letters of E. B. White
E.B.怀特的妻子一直很不喜欢（美国缅因州的）布鲁克林图书馆隔壁的一桩附属建筑。有一天怀特给她送上了一张支票，供她实现自己的愿望，（应该是要先从图书馆手里买下那幢房子，然后）拆了那幢房子。
「K:
So many times I have felt that I wanted to present you with a fine ruby, or we’ll say a perfect sapphire, or a couple of matched pearls that step along together, yet in the presence of rubies, sapphires, pearls or in almost any jeweled atmosphere whatsoever I have turned away empty, blinded by the glitter probably. This impotence in my relationship with precious stones has left me a rich man, and you are my precious stone, all the more so because you don’t glitter. So I now have the strong desire to make you a gift in lieu of rubies, and it seemed to me the other night that the thing you most wanted was to tear down Earl Firth’s house—so I am giving you that, my love my own. Hit it hard and true!
E. B. White」
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《夏洛的网》官方外传✍️
「Spiders expect to have their webs busted, and they take it in their stride. One of Charlotte’s daughters placed her web in the tie-ups, right behind my bull calf, and I kept forgetting about it and would bust one of her foundation lines on my trips to and from the trapdoor where I push the manure into the cellar. After several days of this, during which she had to rebuild the entire web each evening, she solved the matter neatly by changing the angle of the web so that the foundation line no longer crossed my path. Her ingenuity has impressed me, and I am now teaching her to write SOME BOOK, and will let Brentano have her for their window.」from Letters of E. B. White
@LaRoseNoireEmbers 路过看到，资生堂“尿素10% body cream”也是无味、白色的，120g一瓶，大概2、30块钱吧。不过不能说用起来有种很舒适的感觉，就是有点儿粘的乳液。
It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.
Truman Capote, Miriam
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#snow
@LaRoseNoireEmbers 说话谁不会，等他买不起新手机的时候他不骂娘？
算了，我生活经验很少。见过的人很少的。想象力有限啦。我认识的人基本上都非常暴躁。
@yeyewuls 好吧。知道了。绝望。
@LaRoseNoireEmbers 问题是，比如你原来一个月有1000块生活费用，现在降到了500块，你怒而上街。另一个人原来一个月有10000块生活费用，他只用3000生活，存2000，还有5000买了理财，在你失去500块的时候，他这5000块全没了，他损失的比你还多。因为有钱惯了，现在心慌，他不得不多存点钱，以后他一个月可能只有2000块生活用度，虽然是你的4倍，但你的生活水准只降低了500块，他的生活水准却降低了1000块。这个人难道一点都不失望，一点都不生气？
我废话真多。简单讲就是，每个人感受损失的标准不一样，何况天塌下来先压着高的。
@LaRoseNoireEmbers 他们的小区不封吗 他们的理财不跌吗 真的？当警察有这么好？
Here in New England, each season carries a hundred foreshadowings of the season that is to follow -- which is one of the things I love about it. Winter is rough and long, but spring lies all round about. Yesterday, a small white keel feather escaped from my goose and lodged in the bank boughs near the kitchen porch, where I spied it as I came home in the cold twilight. The minute I saw the feather, I was projected into May, knowing that a barn swallow would be along to claim the prize and use it to decorate the front edge of its nest. Immediately, the December air seemed full of wings of swallows and the warmth of barns. Swallows, I have noticed, never use any feather but a white one in their nest-building, and they always leave a lot of it showing, which makes me believe that they are interested not in the feather's insulating power but in its reflecting power, so that when they skim into the dark barn from the bright outdoors they will have a beacon to steer by.
为了大家方便，附上几个不特别常用的单词意思：
keel feather：大羽毛，keel是龙骨，可以指船的龙骨什么的
goose是鹅，keel feather是鹅的那种长羽毛
bank boughs可能是指厨房廊子旁边堆的柴火，bank堆积，bough是树枝。
barn是谷仓
swallow是燕子，这里燕子在怀特家的谷仓做了窝
insulate保温 隔热
reflect反光
skim掠过
beacon灯塔
steer驾驶 航行 开车等
@sodakawauso hhhhhhhhh笑死
@reading @poemsBot May 3 {for The Polish National Day}
The third of May! the third of May!
Hang out the Polish flag to-day;
As loyal Poles have grimly done
Since A.D. 1791.
The day they fashioned, all alone,
A Constitution of their own;
The day they threatened to be free
(Which was not quite the thing to be):
To give a voice to common men-
And that was not the fashion then.
Great Catherine (excuse a grin)
Described the Poles as 'Jacobin':
And bully States, on either hand,
Destroyed the laws and stole the land.
The third of May! The third of May!
And still the Poles may not be gay.
They fought the Prince of Bullies first:
But Fate, so far, rewards them worst.
Four times dismembered-never done;
Four times divided-always one;
Ungentle giants all about-
No kindly sea to keep them out.
But still, whatever tyrant reign,
The Poles resist, rebel, remain.
They lose their cities, not their souls,
The proud, unconquerable Poles:
And may the nations have the nerve
To bless the brave as they deserve!
{April 30, 1944
A. P. Herbert
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