It seems that, for me, confession is a habitual activity on this day.
It is very hard for me to believe that I have existed for such a long time on this planet as well.
Twenty-five years. During these years, the first eighteen years, I think, could be likened to the medieval dark age. Barbarian, dormant, instinctive, quickening, childish instead of innocent, and waiting. Sometimes I felt that I was too young, too naive to be a grown-up during the later years.
But twenty-five years! Sometimes I did feel that I have lingered long engough that it was quite difficult to suppress the urge to rush to the end. Was I mature enough? I don't think so.
And now, there is a person who swore to accompany me till time extinguishes both of us. I swore the same oath to him. The promise we exchanged is not one that is always easy to keep. But I think it is worth every effort.
Twenty-five years. I think I could go on for another twenty-five years with his company.
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! " Omar Khayyam/The Rubaiyat
Petty, Anne C. One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002.
乍看到神話學還感到有些親切，不過也覺得還滿有趣的，我還以為在解構潮之下，神話學這套建築在Structualism之上理論早就被丟到冷凍櫃或展示櫃當化石去了。
看了其中一章，覺得結構主義會被解構好像也不是沒有原因的，因為太完美/完整了，導致沒有討論的空間，看完一章之後我很好奇研究這樣學問的人要怎麼彼此切磋，感覺一切都是是非題。舉例來說，Frodo離開Bagend是不是departure impulse呢？感覺上就只能把這樣的現象套入預設的模子裡，妳覺得是就是，不是就不是，簡單明瞭，於是要嘛就是全盤接收要嘛就是另起爐灶分道揚鑣。
這樣完整緊密的結構論述就宗教信仰而言或許是好事，對於一個學門而言可能就很容易走入死路（我從很久以前就覺得Joseph Campbell有點像那種職業是開導別人的心靈導師，不知道跟這門學問有沒有關XD）。在一個「後」的時代，大師易去，榮華難再，神話學或許也要走上神話的宿命，在陪伴人類的原初時代後消失於舞台？（但是Tolkien 不是認為myth/faery一直都在嗎？:Q)
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歌好像沒有很多，不過都滿新的，點播重複率也不高。
很熱血的一點是，request 可以寫dedication （不過我
沒試），另外，now playing的畫面會把CD的封面也顯現
出來，按下去好像會直接連到買CD的畫面，也可以替現在
播放的歌評分。
缺點是，點歌跟rating功能要註冊，然後常常被踢出來，
要重新log in，而且網頁不知為何很慢。所以目前是當作Armitunes的備用台。:p