"The Sting of Death"

「死の棘」（1990年）を見た。話の展開を全く知らずに見始め、見終えた時には目を大きく開いて手を口に当て、しばらく固まった。発狂状態の妻が精神病院で受ける「電気ショック」。その前に注射される麻酔液。ストレッチャーで運ばれていく彼女。ストーリーはかなりショッキングやけど、こんな病院の場面は、自分にとって単なる映画の一場面ではすまない。こうなったら、島尾敏夫の原作を読み、「泥の河」（81年）など他の小栗作品も見たい。

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Motorola announced that its CEO, Ed Zander, would leave on January 1st. This is the man who said to my question at a press conference, “I don’t know what you are referring to.” I asked for his response to Nokia CEO’s comment that Nokia was not a mere phone maker and he did not consider Motorola as a competitor. I had found this comment in an article of the Economist.

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When I was reading “Crime and Punishment,” I thought about visiting St. Petersburg and Moscow. And suddenly Burma. And remembering my happy days in Taiwan, my interest in the Chinese language and its traditional characters is now growing… I like to understand what A-Mei sings about. My mind can be so simply influenced…

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I have been largely autodidactic, as in the case of my English learning. For Chinese, I can probably combine the pinyin system, which is a creation of the communist China, and traditional characters.