精神食粮
城市里的楼宇广告总是密不透风。一个楼梯间标配三张静态广告和一内一外两个聒噪广告屏。有电梯间甚至安装两个内容不同的广告屏同时大声嚷嚷,掠夺注意力。
内容呢,“美美美美,女人美了才完美”,将外在美等同于完美的广告敦促女性们去整容;“贵就是好,好就是贵”的广告标榜价格带来的优越性劝男士们去买一款贵车;还有一堆一看就或糖或脂超标的儿童加工零食广告……每当这时,我心里都会产生出新的问号,对精神食粮有着更加迫切的需求。
《她从雾中来》里提到的经典可以成为这样的精神食粮,够学习很久了。东方经典还有另外的清单。
(over 2000 years ago) The writings of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes
1200s (over 800 years ago) The writings of Thomas Aquinas and Dante
1300s (over 700 years ago) The writings of Boccaccio and Chaucer
1400s (over 500 years ago) The writings of Eramus and Francis Bacon
1500s (over 400 years ago) The writings of Machiavelli, Cellini, Cervantes, and Montaigne
1600s (over 300 years ago) The writings of John Milton, Pascal, John Dryden, John Locke, and Joseph Addison
1700s (over 200 years ago) The writings of Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, Goethe, Rousseau, and William Blake
1800s (over 100 years ago) The writings of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, John Henry Newman, Leo Tolstoy, The Brontes, Frank Norris, Thomas Hardy, Emile Durkheim, Edmond Rostand, and Oscar Wilde
1900s (the last 100 years) The writings of Ambrose Bierce, Gustavus Myers, H.L. Mencken, William Graham Sumner, W.H. Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Conrad, Max Weber, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Sinclair Lewis, Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Virginia Woolf, Willi