橫行肆虐的郵件

The tyranny of e-mailCan users of modern technology just say no, or are they slaves to the machine?
現今高科技的使用者會拒絕或是成為機器的奴役呢?

 By Elizabeth Day THE GUARDIAN , LONDON  倫敦衛報

Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009, Page 9

2009年11 月4 日 (Taipei Time刊登)

 

 It was when John Freeman started receiving more than 200 e-mails a day that he thought things needed to change. As one of the US’ pre-eminent literary critics, Freeman’s daily routine used to consist of going to a coffee shop in the morning to read and then returning home to write his reviews in the afternoon. But in his absence his inbox had swollen to unmanageable proportions.

當John Freeman 在一天之中收到超過兩百封電子郵件時，他開始思考改變的必要性。

鮮活記憶

Softcover: UK: In living memory

As the good times roll in Hugo Hamilton’s tale of life in a prosperous Ireland, the past is brushed under the carpet

隨著雨果密爾頓的故事集湧現出繁榮的世代，愛爾蘭的過往彷若幽隱晦僻。

By Ann Enright THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Sunday, Apr 18, 2010, Page 14

Hugo Hamilton grew up in a Dublin household where the English language was forbidden, and he has delighted in its illicit and innocent pleasures ever since. In his memoir A Speckled People he wrote about speaking German to his mother and Irish to his nationalist father, while, beyond their front door, children played, mothers shopped, and rock bands sang in the former oppressors’ tongue.

雨果漢密爾頓生長在都柏林，被禁止說英語的家庭中茁壯，自時他也很享受這非法和無邪的樂趣迄今。