『啊啊！對了。橘宗一在高中時常說一句話，記得他是說：「我從沒像阿波羅登上月球表面那次那麼失望。總覺得世界已經走到盡頭了‧‧‧‧‧‧」這些年來，我的生活只有工作，完全沒想過這些事，不過聽他這麼一說才發現，昭和後半段那些年代，戰爭和戰後的分為逐漸被人淡忘，確實就像橘說的那個樣子。所有事務都膨脹、延展，延展到彈性疲乏‧‧‧‧‧‧大家衣食無缺，卻也對這個社會產生疑問。為什麼富足了？如何富足了？大家漸漸遺忘這些過程。大家也不懂阿波羅的結構、技術，只是一而再、再而三看見電視裡頭的幾個男人在月球上蹦蹦跳跳。我想正是那種奇妙的感覺，瀰漫了整個昭和的後半時期。』
溝呂木在指頭上感覺到熱氣，急忙捻熄只剩濾嘴的香煙。
Luis, your question is difficult and I try to compose my thought and thinking about what and how should I reply.
After ‘waves’ of feminism and the recent events like Angelina Julie being knighted for her devotion in ending sexual violence in conflict, Emma Watson advocates ‘HeForShe’, and the second time that there are all female Nobel Peace Prize winners, it looks as if women and gender issues are reaching a new peak and female peer support is being truly recognised. However, I would say that these glamour coverages are somehow an illusion and a very serious one. To quote Tanya Barron, “we shouldn’t let the notion that we are now on some irreversible path to equality creep in.” (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/world-is-talking-the-talk-but-not-walking-the-walk-on-womens-rights-according-to-new-report-9794542.html?origin=internalSearch)
All work and no play, makes me a dull man. Well, the annoying self-destruction cannot stop me from looking forward to the coming play season… Also, what is the point of being in the U.K., if you are banished from the stuffs that make you love the place?
It is no need to mention the fan frenzy over a certain (mighty) Mr. Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be on the stage as Hamlet at Barbican Centre next summer. But I do feel dubious about his choice of collaboration and, as a fan of his, I want to see him sparks than anything else.
There are so many happy things to write, but I suppose it is the absolutely shitty feeling actually compel a person to write.
Joe: "No, it's the end of a nineteenth-century socialist romanticist conflation of government and society, law and Justice, idea and action, irreconcilables which only meet at some remote horizon, like parallels converging in infinity. The rhythm of history is conservative. Change is geologically slow. You must accept that. And accept as rightfully yours the happiness that comes your way."
On the Stage (2)
