Read a happy book.
I read this book entirely because of its title, "Traveling with Salmon", and if anyone would travel with fish, it must be a very funny, interesting, and happy book.
The book is not a travelogue, but a witty, interesting and philosophical collection of essays.
Sure enough, at the beginning of reading there was an interesting description that slipped into the eyes, haha.
"As luck would have it, the publisher in London booked me a luxury hotel with a small wine cooler in the room. Xingchong rushed into the hotel, but I thought I had broken into a foreign legation in Beijing at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. ”
Echo uses a serious exaggeration to describe a whole bunch of trivialities about a fish that needs to be kept in the refrigerator, like holding a magnifying glass to look at the world, looking at all the moments of life, he sees the "crazy" places in life that people are blind to, interesting!
"My publisher was furious, and he decided I was a veteran of the sea. Salmon has deteriorated, of course, it can't be eaten. The children ordered me to drink less in the future. ”
"The Adventure of a Replacement Driver's License" is humorous and witty, and people can't help but be funny, worthy of being the god of spitting!
I was very touched by what was written in the book. I hate the faces of staff who deliberately delay productivity and sit at their desks.
"All in all, I must admit that I spent days queuing up, and every time I got to the window, I knew that I should fill out other forms or buy revenue stamps of other denominations, and then I was sent to the end of the line. But as we all know, this is what formalities are all about. ”
"I'm sure readers will understand how great a risk to national security would be if I gave my driver's license number to me!" That was the intelligence that Gaddafi and the KGB had dreamed of, so how could they not keep it under the scrutiny as a top state secret?!
Haha, what a serious and sarcastic irony!
Echo uses his brushstrokes to satirize, tease, and provoke all absurdity and darkness.
When I read the article "Eating and Drinking in the Air", such a scene immediately came out of my mind... A wide variety of...
"But don't think Chinese will be worse." I can assure you that it is far easier to clip peas with chopsticks than it is to play "fencing" with forks and peas. If the fork is used to hold a pea, not a stab, it would be a joke. Do you know why forks are designed the way they are? In order to pretend to pull the peas, let the beans fall off. ”
Read Perfect Crime with ease. This one presents a more perfect spit. The "I" who killed the mutilated corpse sat in the first-class carriage and everything was fine, and the body was successfully thrown away. "I", tormented by inner fear, wanted to go out and relax, so I chose the second class this time, and as a result, the "I" who had no fault was tortured in every way, and fortunately, when "I" pretended to be a political prisoner, I lived a fairy-like life. Ha ha.
"Any project with extremely complex techniques and perfect results inevitably produces such typical symptoms."
""Meaningful" holiday strange talk", I have to say that the author is a high-level black, the art of irony is really superb, black out of the level.
"Three Owls on the Chest of Drawers", Echo cites a large number of detailed and reliable references, with sufficient arguments, professional vocabulary, in-depth theoretical analysis, and writes a complete nonsense. The "thesis" tirelessly explains the poem "Three Owls on the Chest of Drawers" in a meticulous and comprehensive way, as if it can enter the research library of a first-class university at any time. The more he imitated it, the closer he got to his purpose, and he vigorously mocked deconstructivist linguistics, uttering a piercing laugh with a serious face. The article is reminiscent of sweaty red studies or Lu Xun's research collections that crowd scholars' bookshelves, and while they are not exactly the same, very different, "Three Owls on the Chest of Drawers" does provoke a mocking instinct.
In "I Don't Care What Time It Is", the taunt master Echo has doubts about the validity of time, because expensive and luxurious watches are not for watching time, but for showing off. If there is no clock on the watch, is it still a watch? Echo said that fashionable people never care about what time it is, and who cares?
"Some women's watches can't even find hands, and the bare surfaces don't have hours or minute scales. Basically it tests one of your abilities called "guessing": "Is it noon?" Is it midnight? Ah, it turned out to be between noon and midnight! ”
Ha ha! But in any case, this design is aimed at the fashionable people, they don't care what time it is, how can they care about what time?
"In real life, we often enter the stage late after the music starts, but we leave the table in a hurry before the victory or defeat is known. Will knowing the beginning and the end make us happier, or will we lose the mystery and excitement of life? "The Beginning or End You Don't Know."
I appreciate echoes Echo's answer to the question of how many books he has read:
"I'm busy, you can get out."
"The typical illiterate who doesn't read asks this kind of question!" Ha ha!
In Tips for Compiling Property Lists, Echo offers us a way to be corrupt in the process, and even how toilet paper is recorded is difficult, but his conclusion is quite applicable to some people today: "As long as all the procedures are legal, no one will be prosecuted for wasting public funds." ”
The Encyclopedia of Waste tells us that it seems that it is quite interesting to detach properly at a time when the whole world is making garbage and waste.
The Perfect Guide is indeed too often perfect to be overwhelming.
In "The Organization Can Be Found", Echo examines various secret religious groups, and the long talk of nagging creates a series of humor and jokes, haha, when seeing those nervous reference texts, he feels the "mystery" of the ridiculous bluff of the so-called "organization".
"It's the age of the automobile, and it's ridiculous that the authorities are always encouraging a large number of public transports!" and "it took decades for road traffic to fall into a total paralysis." I have to admire it! Now we are in the automobile century, on the one hand, the state is constantly supporting the automobile industry and promoting its continuous renewal and rapid development, on the other hand, in order to survive the environment, for urban development, the state is also working hard to carry out transportation reform and promote "green travel". This look, wow, although it is the author's remarks twenty or thirty years ago, but it is not outdated now, I have to give a thumbs up. So Ike wants "Strike The Fax Machine". Ha ha
When you are in the station or subway, you hear someone on the phone boiling stock market relatives and even Zhang and Li's love ups and downs, you will find that many things, even after many years, are still the same. "Flaunting the market with his mobile phone is enough to prove that he does not understand the mysteries of the matter, and is destined to be exiled by high society and will never be able to turn over." Ha ha! I seemed to see the man with the phone talking loudly waving.
"Ellipsis's... Usage is uncomfortable with a translation in the book. The metaphors that can be seen are familiar, but it is clear that Echo will not use all of these sentences from Chinese literature. So did the translator replace all the sentences himself? What is the reason for this? I'd rather see which sentences Echo himself has cited. It is not particularly agreeable to this practice of forced translation for the purpose of transplanting contexts. And I think the main thing to discuss here is the role of the ellipsis, even if the excerpts from the quoted foreign literature are translated as they are, it will not be particularly difficult for the reader to understand, right?
The theme that Echo wants to express in "Art Record" is not complicated: modern people are faced with two worlds, one is the world of words, the other is the world of reality, and we are often seduced by the former, thinking that it is real, and we unconsciously fall into the absurd. It should be said that the "ideological" nature of Echo's article is not difficult to understand, and what is difficult to understand is his text.
To say that it is good, the imagination described by Echo, and the point of saying that it is not good, it is to pull things around. Echo developed "off-topic" into an art, you never know what he really wants to say, paradoxically, in "off-topic", he often pulls the topic back and connects each other with so-called "intertextuality".
I love this old Italian man Amberto Echo, who is a leader in serious nonsense!
I have absolute reason to believe that the real killer of a child in a zoo is too much education. Behind the education is the self-reproach of human beings for their ugly conscience, and in order to cover up how vicious human beings are, we have changed the dogma hard: bears are kinder than people. Why can't we honestly tell them how virtuous people are and what kind of bears are?
Guillotines are always reused and are almost never sterilized according to the correct steps. "Beware of germs is around you", reading a serious text by Echo, always laughing. Ha ha
I have to say that Amberto Echo is a high-level black, and the satirical skills are too superb, it is really black out of the level!