陶傑
自從1989年之後，國際文明社會包括2019年之前的香港下一代，為幫助中國人已經竭盡全力，香港更付出了致命的代價。一切到此為止，其餘只能由這個民族自己上路、清零自救，兼為世界指明方向了。
唯今日種種，模糊間似乎又似曾相識。比起當年香港之「民主歌聲獻XX」（那個大派對中許多人已經鳥獸散或學會了收聲，少數幾個不在人世），物是人非，香港人已經無法、或無意、或無力，再重現此盛況，其中原因，你們十四億人應該明白。
不過這幾幅新聞圖片，還是可以有一點點感想。
第一，南京大學生對新疆清零死難者的悼念，氣氛竟然有幾分基督教徒唱聖詩的高尚和聖潔感。這一點，是好的。
第二，下跪的那位大學生，下跪的對象是死難者，而不是「中央」。這一點，亦不無進步。
第三，為新疆大火遇難者獻花，警察問：是誰組織的？顯然此警察認為中國人必要有「外國勢力」幕後組織派錢策動才會喚醒其對同胞死難的惻隱同情心，沒有外國勢力的教唆，中國人全是一群涼血動物。大陸極多的「老百姓」皆作如是觀。對中國人的種族歧視，由中國人的內心開始。
此外，三年前香港出現「黑暴」，大陸小粉紅舖天蓋地在網絡聲討「港獨」、支持警察。奇怪的是，今日由鄭州、廣州、烏魯木齊到南京，大陸處處黑暴，香港之親中愛國藍C竟一片沉默，無人在香港網絡支持大白兵和公安執法，回饋國家，更無一個香港傳媒記者學習「付國豪精神」，北上來到黑暴現場如鄭州「正常採訪」，兼高呼：「我支持大白兵、支持警察，你們可以打我了」，這種自私的香港人對於祖國同胞也真未免太忘恩負義了吧。
（ps:大陸各城市的「抗爭者」，以香港官方定義，皆顛覆國家的罪犯，請此帖觀眾盡量不必留言——幾十年來，也確實再沒有什麼話好講——請保持冷靜旁觀態度，以免違反「港版國安法」）
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“普丁的國家”（Putin Country ,台北:馬可孛羅）的更新
ECONOMIST.COM
The World Ahead | Russia risks becoming ungovernable and descending into chaos in 2023
What next for Russia?
By Arkady Ostrovsky Russia editor, The Economist
When russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine on February 24th 2022, he set out to grab territory, deprive it of sovereignty, wipe out the very idea of its national identity and turn what remained of it into a failed state. After months of Ukraine’s fierce resistance, its statehood and its identity are stronger than ever, and all the things that Mr Putin had intended to inflict on Ukraine are afflicting his own country.
Mr Putin’s war is turning Russia into a failed state, with uncontrolled borders, private military formations, a fleeing population, moral decay and the possibility of civil conflict. And though confidence among Western leaders in Ukraine’s ability to withstand Mr Putin’s terror has gone up, there is growing concern about Russia’s own ability to survive the war. It could become ungovernable and descend into chaos.
戰爭及西方制裁下的景象
Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included, followed by the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. It is generally thought that Dickens originally intended The Old Curiosity Shop as a short story like the others that had appeared in Master Humphrey's Clock, but after a few chapters decided to extend it into a novel. Master Humphrey appears as the first-person narrator in the first three chapters of The Old Curiosity Shop but then disappears, stating, "And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader, I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course, and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves."
Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day, he decides that he would start a little club, called Master Humphrey's Clock, where the members would read out their manuscripts to the others. The members include Master Humphrey; a deaf gentleman; Jack Redburn; retired merchant Owen Miles; and Mr. Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers. A mirror club in the kitchen, Mr. Weller's Watch, run by Mr. Weller, has members including Humphrey's maid, the barber and Sam Weller.
Master Humphrey's Clock appeared after The Old Curiosity Shop, to introduce Barnaby Rudge. After Barnaby Rudge, Master Humphrey is left by himself by the chimney corner in a train of thoughts. Here, the deaf gentleman continues the narration. Later, the deaf gentleman and his friends return to Humphrey's house to find him dead. Humphrey has left money for the barber and the maid (no doubt by traces of love that they would be married). Redburn and the deaf gentleman look after the house and the club closes for good.
In the portion of Master Humphrey's Clock which succeeds The Old Curiosity Shop, Master Humphrey reveals to his friends that he is the character referred to as the 'single gentleman' in that story.
Story order[edit]
Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly serial that contained both short stories and two novels (The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge). Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels so the ordering of publication is important.
Although Dickens's original artistic intent was to keep the short stories and the novels together, he himself cancelled Master Humphrey's Clock before 1848, and described in a preface to The Old Curiosity Shop that he wished the story to not be tied down to the miscellany it began within.[1] Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. However, the short stories and the novels were published in 1840 in three bound volumes under the title Master Humphrey's Clock, which retains the full and correct ordering of texts as they originally appeared. The illustrations in these volumes were by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, better known as "Phiz".
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