翻聽Bob Dylan的《Desolation Row》湧起一股莫名的觸動,感覺就像走過了一條漫長的荒涼之路。頭兩句不知怎的讓我想到最近的香港:
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
他們販售吊刑的名信片
他們把護照髹成啡色
然後我便分外留神聽接下來發生甚麼事:
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row
美髮店擠滿了水手
馬戲團就在城後
然後來了一個特首
他們將他發入吽竇
一隻手綁住走鋼線高手
另一隻插在褲袋裡頭
還有防暴警察全在煩躁無休
他們需要某個地方抖抖
像這位小姐和我遍夜尋求
由荒涼之路口
然後找到哪裡去?似乎是酒館。
Cinderella, she seems so easy
“It takes one to know one,” she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning
“You Belong to Me I Believe”
And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend
You better leave”
And the only sound that’s left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row
灰姑娘,她似乎幾開放
「講嗰個就係嗰個。」佢笑咗
然後將雙手插進後袋
貝蒂戴維斯的風格
然後來了個羅密歐,佢喺度呻吟
「你係屬於我㗎我相信!」
然後有人話:「你來錯地方喇朋友,
你最好離開。」
然後唯一留低的聲音
在救護車走了之後
是灰姑娘的掃地聲
在荒涼之道上
我很喜歡這一種講故事的歌,因為這才叫做「吟遊」。當現在的歌失去了這種吟遊性,就空餘下一堆感質。我們已經不再用灰姑娘來形容負責打掃地方的女人,我喜歡這樣的形容,但設定跟原著是反轉的:掃完地,一到十二點,她就準時穿回自己的玻璃鞋。
然後已經好夜好夜了:
Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortune-telling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing
He’s getting ready for the show
He’s going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row
現在月亮就快都看不見
繁星也開始隱淡
占卜未來的女人
甚已將她的所有東西收起
所有除了該隱和亞伯
以及聖母院的鐘樓佗俠
人人都在做愛
或其餘的在等雨
然後有個好撒馬利亞人,他在換裝
他已經準備好出騷
今晚他將會前往嘉年華
在荒涼之道上
突然輪到《哈姆雷特》的女主角奧菲利亞登場:
Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession’s her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah’s great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row
現在奧菲利亞,她就倚在窗旁
我真為她擔心
在她廿二歲生日時
她已經是一個老女僕
對她,死亡是幾浪漫
她穿了一件鐵的背心
信仰就是她的自白
白活就是她的罪名
雖然她已定睛望着上方
那道挪亞的偉大彩虹
但她仍是費上時間來偷望
那條荒涼之路
而你有沒有聽過愛恩斯坦拉小提琴?這一個卻不是那一個,因為他太潦倒了:
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row
愛恩斯坦扮成羅賓漢
帶着他車尾廂的回憶
在一小時前才經過這裡
和他的朋友、來自善妒寺的僧侶
他看起來不染得可怕
尤其在他討煙的時候
接着他走去嗅着水喉
叨唸着字母
現在你不會想望到他
但好耐之前他都風光過
奏着電子提琴
在那荒涼之路
從荒涼到荒淫?
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They’re trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She’s in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
“Have Mercy on His Soul”
They all play on pennywhistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row
猥褻醫生,他將他的世界
藏在一隻皮杯裡
但他所有無性的病人
他們正嘗試吹起它
現在他的護士,某個本地的失敗者
她是山埃孔的話事人
而她亦藏了一張卡片寫着
「願主垂憐他的靈魂」
他們全都玩着尖哨
你可以聽到他們在吹
如果你把頭傾得夠遠
從荒涼之道
卡薩諾瓦是意大利聞名的詩人情聖,這一段特別令我着迷:
Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains
They’re getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They’re spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words
And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls
“Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row”
對面街他們已釘上帷幕
他們已準備好一場盛宴
《歌聲魅影》
牧師的完美形象
他們用湯匙向卡薩諾瓦灌藥
讓他稍為有安全感
然後他們用自信來殺掉他
之前用文字毒害他
然後魅影向瘦削的女孩們喊道:
「如果你不知道就請你們離開
卡薩諾瓦已經受罪因他
前往荒涼之道。」
接下來這一段,我懷疑是在描寫納粹的集中營:
Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row
現在午夜所有特工
和超人類團隊
出來圍住了所有人
因為知道了不該知道的
然後把他們帶到工廠
那裡有心臟病機器
綁在他們的肩膊上
然之後那煤油
從城堡裡帶下來
有人會以防萬一
檢查一下看看是否無人能逃
逃往荒涼之路
Bob Dylan這首歌可能戲仿了英國詩人ES艾略特的長詩《荒原》,這首詩的一大特色是沒有人能看懂一個字——每個字都懂,湊起來卻不成意思。之前跟大家介紹過的艾茲拉龐德,勉強把《荒原》翻改成可讀的版本,加了很多註腳,務求令世人讀得通它的真意。這個情節,Bob Dylan也收錄在《Desolation Row》第九節裡面:
Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody’s shouting
“Which Side Are You On?”
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain’s tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row
讚美歸於尼祿的海王星
鐵達尼啟程於黎明
而每個人都發出喊聲
「你到底站哪一邊?」
而艾茲拉龐和ES艾略
在船長的塔上決鬥
卡利索普歌手取笑他們
漁民手執鮮花
在大海的窗戶之間
那裡有可愛的美人魚流過
此際沒有人想太多
關於那荒涼之路
是的,Bob Dylan是在模仿ES艾略特式的混亂,而在最後一節揭曉了混亂的原因:
Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the doorknob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can’t read too good
Don’t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row
係呀,我尋日收到你嘅信
(大概在門鎖壞了的時候)
你問我最近過成怎樣
是一個需要笑的笑話嗎?
全部這些你所提及的人
係呀,我知道佢哋,佢哋都幾無趣
我需要重新構建他們的臉容
給他們全都搞混了名字
此際我已經不太擅於閱讀
不要再寄更多的信給我了,不要
除非它們是你寄自
於荒涼之路
聽過這麼多段,就像走完了一段漫長的荒涼的路,有一種想哭的感覺。Bob Dylan的音樂經常都給予的這種荒涼感,只有經歷很多的人才會有這種感覺,寫得出這種詞,流下了這滴淚。
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[商業寫作技巧] Jeff Bezos Final Shareholder Letter as Amazon CEO
今天又來分享Presentality的商業英文寫作技巧~
★★★★★★★★★★★★
看貝佐斯致亞馬遜股東的最後一封信,學一些英文寫作小撇步!
上禮拜4月 15 日,亞馬遜創辦人 Jeff Bezos 發表了他 CEO 任內最後一封致股東的信。 歷年來亞馬遜的 shareholder letters 都廣受好評,甚至被許多專家封為美國最會寫股東信的企業之一。
這封信到底寫多好?我們就一起來看看。
★★★★★★★★★★★★
我們先看信的內容架構。大概只有五個部分而已:
1. 回顧:1997到今天,一路走來的成就
2. 價值:計算亞馬遜對社會各方創造的價值
3. 員工:亞馬遜其實對員工不錯,而且承諾未來會更好
4. 環境:亞馬遜對環境永續做的貢獻
5. 結語:世界要我們平凡,但我們要堅持獨特
★★★★★★★★★★★★
這封信的內容架構簡單清晰,聚焦回應股東對亞馬遜的主要批評點。
🎯 針對「亞馬遜對世界是好是壞?」:貝佐斯列出公司對社會各界— 使用者、新創公司、小商家等等 — 所做出的貢獻。
🎯 針對「亞馬遜如何對待員工」:貝佐斯列舉證據,表示亞馬遜其實對員工不錯,但又反過來說:我們未來一定會做的更好!
🎯這兩個寫完,他又加碼闡述亞馬遜對環境永續的貢獻
這就是我們的第一個寫英文文章的重點:
✍️ I. Make it simple & focused
What are the top things your audience is thinking about? Focus on that. Don’t add a lot of other complicated stuff. Simplify and focus.
你的讀者心裡在想什麼?他們對你最大的質疑點有哪些?你的開頭就直接切入重點,回應他們的疑點。
寫英文 — 尤其商業英文 — 最重要的就是簡潔、明瞭、聚焦。
其實呢,我們從貝佐斯用的文字上也看得出來:好的英文是簡單到大部分的人都看得懂的,就像這一段:
If you want to be successful in business (in life, actually), you have to create more than you consume. Your goal should be to create value for everyone you interact with. Any business that doesn’t create value for those it touches, even if it appears successful on the surface, isn’t long for this world. It’s on the way out.
沒有什麼很艱澀,高學歷的人才會用的字。大部分都只有一個音節而已。可能只有 “isn't long for this world” 有些人會需要查 (就是不會活很久的意思)。
★★★★★★★★★★★★
✍️ II. But… Be Conversational
但你有沒有注意到,內容有一點點重複?那一段的最後兩句:“isn’t long for this world” 跟 “It's on the way out” 根本是完全一樣的內容啊!這根本就跟英文寫作老師教我們的原則 — 可以刪的字就刪掉 — 相反對不對?
沒錯。因為這封信的語氣 (並非所有商業寫作),就像是聊天一樣。我們在聊天的時候,是否會為了強調一個重點,用稍微不同的方式,重複同一件事?
所以呢,如果你想要寫出輕鬆一點的語氣,可以適當的「重複」。參考以下的兩種寫法:
•She is the corporate group’s top-ranked sales representative
•She’s by far our best sales rep, just insanely good. Like, nobody else comes close.
第二種比較浪費篇幅,但是否比較親切呢?
★★★★★★★★★★★★
✍️ III. Make it about PEOPLE
當然,除了語氣之外,還有另一個層面非常重要 — 就是說「人」的故事。
貝佐斯在這封信放了非常,非常,非常多的數字:亞馬遜雇用130萬人、超過二億人使用 Prime 服務、近兩萬商家使用平台銷售、亞馬遜為股東創造出1.6兆美元的財富,等等等等的…
看了這些數字,你是否覺得有點無感?
貝佐斯也知道大家看了太多龐大的數字,會漸漸無感,所以他文字一轉,從冰冷的數字,進入到溫暖的故事:
...more than 7/8ths of the shares, representing $1.4 trillion of wealth creation, are owned by others. Who are they? They’re pension funds, universities, and 401(k)s, and they’re Mary and Larry, who sent me this note out of the blue just as I was sitting down to write this shareholder letter:
貝佐斯把焦點帶到一個散戶小股東家庭身上,並且用他們寫給他的一封信,來強調亞馬遜對「普羅大眾」的貢獻。這個很值得大家效法:別只是一味的丟出數據 (理性),也要不時的回到「人」的故事 (感性),才能打動別人。
他用的轉折也很值得學習:列出一個清單,但把你下一段要寫的焦點,放在清單的最後一個,如:
There are many ways to improve your life: eating better, sleeping more, worrying less, and saying NO.
然後轉換主題:說一個有關 saying no 的故事。
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好啦,上述都有點簡單對不對?
💡還需要貝佐斯(或是他的寫手)更高段的一些寫作技巧嗎? 需要的同學請按個讚和留言「It’s all about PEOPLE.」。
完整信件: https://bit.ly/3v9P1a9
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【最大的福份】GREATEST FORTUNE
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哇~~~線上視訊諮詢真好玩!😃
我剛結束為在紐西蘭客人批八字的線上視訊。這是我第一次做視訊諮詢。
我一向比較喜歡當面會面,所以海外客人可選擇來新加坡見我,或付費請我給過去。
但是中華玄學提倡的就是要隨機應變。無論現在生活如何的安穩,人要時時居安思危,懂得變通,更要隨時準備就緒,才能把握時機,甚至從危機中脫穎而出。
畢竟如《易經》所說,唯一不變的是變化。
世事無常,沒有永遠的好,也沒有永遠的壞。
止步不前的人永遠不會進步。
這位客人關注我的臉書已有幾年的時間。
當她請我為她批八字時,我一口答應接下這差事。
幾年前,我寫過一篇文章,提到風水命理師都要能夠及願意代客人的業,因此我們很多同行都是佛教徒。
這位女士當時就私訊我,想以我的名義捐款,為我祈福。她請我選一個我喜歡的慈善機構。
我拒絕了她的好意。因為我認為自己的人生選擇,應該自己去承擔。
現在也輪到我以我的所長來答謝她。
視訊裡,我看到她一部份的居家擺設,並道出那是漏財之相,會無緣無故花了很多錢,卻又不知道錢去了哪裡,財富無法增長。
客人點頭同意,說家裡確實有這樣的問題。
我指點她該如何化解這風水問題。
雖然這次不是看風水,但我不會忘記,誰曾經施恩於我的。
在二月份時,我寫信給我的根本上師聖尊蓮生活佛,求「救瘟疫度母」持咒灌頂。
幾個星期前,我收到回信。
回信中,結尾恭錄著師尊文集《神變的遊歷》裡的一段話:
“有很多修行人的「庫藏」,裡面是充滿智慧的法本,他們將智慧握在手中,「庫藏」內並不一定有什麼福份,他們只是將智慧發光,使一切眾生得到成就,而他們的福份就是「自在」。”
我家師兄讀了之後,緊張地拿著信來問我:「你是不是在信裡跟師尊求財,然後祂的意思是跟你說你命中沒有嗎?為什麼信會這樣子回覆你?」
真是好氣又好笑。
「沒有啊!我只求持咒灌頂,其他都沒有求。」
但你知道嗎?
這也正是我此生唯一的所求。沒有什麼比這更值得拼上我一生的青春了。
為明天四小時的視訊諮詢準備咯!
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Ooooh, consultations via video calls are FUN! 😃
I just concluded my very first video call for a Bazi analysis of a client in New Zealand.
I always prefer to meet in person, so either overseas clients come to Singapore to meet me or they pay for me to fly over.
But Chinese Metaphysics is always about being flexible and prepared for change, no matter how comfortable we may be in our current state. After all, as I-Ching states, the only constant is change.
Nothing lasts forever, be it good or bad.
Nobody progresses by staying put.
This client has been following my Facebook for several years.
When she approached me to analyse her Bazi, I agreed right away.
Years ago, I wrote a post on how Feng Shui practitioners must be able and willing to take over the negative karma of clients, hence many of us are Buddhist practitioners.
This lady PM me and offered to do a donation under my name, as she wished to send me some blessings. She asked me to choose a charity.
I kindly declined. Because I should take personal responsibility for my choices in life.
Now is my time to thank her with what I am competent at.
During the video call, I saw a part of her home. I told her that was a sign of leaking wealth. Money would be spent carelessly without knowing where it goes, and it gets harder to grow the family wealth.
The client nodded in agreement with my observation, and said this was indeed the current situation.
While this may not be a Feng Shui audit, I went ahead to tell her the way to resolve it.
Because I never forget who had shown kindness to me.
In February, I wrote a letter to my Grandmaster His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng to seek empowerment for the mantra of the Tara who saves from contagious diseases.
I received the reply a few weeks ago.
Interestingly, the letter ended with a short paragraph extracted from my Grandmaster’s book:
“In the treasury storage of many spiritual cultivators, lies many Dharma books of wisdom. They hold the wisdom in their hands.
There may not be much good fortune in their treasury storage. They just add shine of brilliance to the wisdom, so that all sentient beings can achieve accomplishments.
And their blessedness is freedom from worldly restraints.”
The husband read the letter and asked me panicking, “ Did you ask Grandmaster to grant you riches or something? He said you are not destined for wealth, is it? Why did the letter write that?”
“No! I never asked for anything, except the empowerment!”
But you know what?
This is all that I wish for till the end of my life. Nothing else will ever be worth my youth.
Onward to another 4-hour video call tomorrow!
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