再不出場就把我忘了

最近沒有時間寫blog，因為時間都花在觀摩別人寫的東西。

早前跟朋友天馬行空，談到不如明年一起再次歐遊。不約而同，大家都起一個地點：捷克首都布拉格。

在書櫃重拾書脊摺的起皺的一本書，The unbearable lightness of being。

這本書我買了很多年，唸大學的時候，一共看了兩遍，但每次把書翻到一半，看到180頁，就用盡全身力氣，把書擱下。

最近坐車上班，好幾次「坐過龍」。車廂裏搖晃的節奏，總是把我領入沉思的迷宫。甚麼是輕?甚麼是重?

Parmenides posed this very question in the sixth century before Christ. He saw the world divided into pairs of opposites: light/darkness, fineness/coarseness, warmth/cold, being/non-being. One half of the opposition he called positive (light, fineness, warmth, being), the other negative.

We might find this divison into positive and negative poles childishly simple except for one difficulty:

which one is positive, weight or lightness?