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[Let This Stand as a Record] Beijing Temperatures Are Skyrocketing; Today’s High Could Reach 23°C

Life & Notes2009.03.17
[Let This Stand as a Record] Beijing Temperatures Are Skyrocketing; Today’s High Could Reach 23°C
Beijing Temperatures Surge Today’s High May Reach 23℃ 2009-03-17 15:36:12 Editor: sam 【Font: Small, Medium, Large】 China Weather Network reports: Beijing’s sunny warmth is a little surprising; yesterday at 3 p.m. the temperature had already climbed to 20℃, and today it will keep rising, with the high possibly reaching 23℃. http://www.nmc.gov.cn/news/209761.html On the daytime of March 16, warm sunshine spread across the land, and it felt quite pleasant on one’s skin; compared with the temperatures of the previous few days, Beijing’s warming was somewhat unexpectedly rapid, with the daytime high climbing from 6℃ to 20℃ in just three days—a rise of 14℃! According to statistical records, the extreme high temperature…
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2009年3月17日
About Rainwater, Let Me Say a Few Mystical Things Too; I Haven’t Forgotten That I Am Rain

Life & Notes2009.03.16
About Rainwater, Let Me Say a Few Mystical Things Too; I Haven’t Forgotten That I Am Rain
The first, the most crucial, and the final question is respectively communication, communication, and communication. A flowing individual communicates flowing emotions with flowing words in a flowing world. Only when the flowing river receives the rain of the moment does it remain eternally undried. Latest Comments Guchen 2009-03-16 15:45:42 :“Dialectics” is just dialogue, or rather “communication studies.” I think “philosophy of communication” also sounds good. I feel that, whether one is speaking of how people get along with one another or of how people get along with the world, communication is both a premise, a means, and an end. physis 2009-03-22 23:24:34 anonymous 59.55.252.230 Saw an article that can echo…
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2009年3月16日
This Issue’s Music: Händel Harp Concerto, Op. 4 No. 6 – Allegro

Life & Notes2009.03.12
This Issue’s Music: Händel Harp Concerto, Op. 4 No. 6 – Allegro
http://www.mydrdr.com/12%20Harp%20Concerto,%20op.4%20no.6.mp3 Bach, Vivaldi—next should be Handel, right? So recently the space on my MP3 player has gradually been taken over by Handel. I had posted Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” once before, but back then I wasn’t yet listening to Handel in any focused way. Recently what I’ve mainly been listening to are Handel’s chamber music collection and his organ concerto collection. After so long, the organ continues to be astonishing. And I’ve found that Handel’s organ concertos seem to sound even more appealing to me than Bach’s—oh my God~ As for organ concertos, they sound richer than solo organ pieces; otherwise that music is too otherworldly. A…
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2009年3月12日
The Moral Law Above My Head and the Starry Sky in My Heart

Life & Notes2009.03.10
The Moral Law Above My Head and the Starry Sky in My Heart
This semester I’m preparing to start gnawing on Kant’s third Critique. Every time I come to the café I bring that brick with me, but unfortunately I still haven’t yet felt the impulse to open it up, so… let’s talk about it later… In any case, in recent days Kant’s ghost seems to have been hovering around me all the time, poking me from time to time, as if complaining about how I’ve been neglecting him… When I was a sophomore, I wrote “The Same Starry Sky” to discuss Kant’s science and religion, marking the moment when I was truly lured through the door of philosophy; When I was a…
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2009年3月10日
Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao

Life & Notes2009.03.07
Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao
I haven’t updated the blog much these past several times. On the one hand, it’s because lately I’ve been busy with all sorts of miscellaneous things and haven’t had any mental free time; on the other hand, because some time ago I suddenly had the urge to write in a “dialogue” form, but got stuck halfway through. Only today did I finally rekindle the urge to write, and I’ve now finished the previously stuck draft of the No. 〇 piece, but I still have no motivation to write the first piece (though I already have the title). According to my plan, all of these “dialogues” will be written by me…
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2009年3月7日
Bach’s Cantata No. 211, “Coffee”

Life & Notes2009.02.21
Bach’s Cantata No. 211, “Coffee”
I couldn’t find a suitable MP3 link, so I won’t use background music. It’s on YouTube, so I’ll paste it here to share. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzX2LBfVcUg The following introduction is reprinted from http://www.yyjy.com/yybk/mqhc/qt/200601/12945.html 《"Coffee" Cantata》 was written in 1732 for the “Music Society” in Leipzig. In Bach’s time, drinking coffee was fashionable in German cities; coffeehouses became social venues, bustling with activity and also offering musical performances. However, coffee was expensive, and ordinary citizens often restricted the young people in their households from indulging in coffee. Bach set this social trend as the backdrop and composed this “Coffee” Cantata. The whole piece has three roles and no chorus. In the…
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2009年2月21日
This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”

Life & Notes2009.02.20
This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”
http://www.onepiecer.com/d/down/music/op1.mp3 After posting seven installments of classical music in a row, I think it’s time to change the style a bit. Right when the anti-vulgarity campaign is in full swing, I can’t afford to stand on the wrong side, can I? — Right, I absolutely can’t be lumped in with the refined and elegant crowd; I’m a companion of vulgar culture! Although most of the music I listen to is, after all, the sort that is said to be refined and noble, I only listen to it because it sounds good, that’s all. Vulgar is not the same as vulgar and mediocre, oh. I am a spiritual aristocrat full of…
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2009年2月20日
I Won’t Date in Cafés.

Life & Notes2009.02.18
I Won’t Date in Cafés.
Coffeehouses are not, properly speaking, places for dates, but places for encounters. Whether in the broad sense or the narrow sense, I won’t be arranging any dates in a coffeehouse this year. Nowadays, coffeehouses seem to have been fashioned into places with a special “atmosphere,” seemingly best suited to friends meeting up, especially couples on a date. But I want to revive the spirit of the coffeehouse and restore coffee to its original face. What I mean by not dating in a coffeehouse chiefly contains two layers of meaning. First, with regard to the broad sense of “dating,” I will not meet anyone at any agreed time in a coffeehouse….
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2009年2月18日
On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)

Life & Notes2009.02.15
On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)
As the main project of increasing my offline activities this year, the point is to return to cafés. About three years ago around this time, I used to frequent Plato Café; this was mainly during the second half of my sophomore year. Besides Plato, there were also Beifengtang and Azhudan (at the time Plato was not open 24 hours, while the latter two were). These were all places I frequented. Reading and grinding through papers in those places was most efficient. But I soon drifted away from them for several reasons. First, later on I rented a place outside the South Gate, namely “mutton-soup alley,” which gave me a fixed…
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2009年2月15日
A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks

Life & Notes2009.02.12
A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks
For a long time, my signature on Wenming has been nothing more than a simple blog address link, with limited advertising effect. Lately I’ve been hanging around the department board more often, and while looking at some interesting signature lines, I’ve come to feel that a rather rich signature line can indeed have quite a strong appeal. I don’t really like writing fragmentary, aphoristic pieces, but every now and then writing a few passages like this does feel pretty good. Before I knew it, I had already added 9 signature lines (the latest 4 of which, it seems, I still haven’t had a chance to use in posts), and together…
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2009年2月12日