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发帖数: 3461 | 1 一个惨淡的爱情故事
大概三千年前，中亚有个国家，Lydia。
国王很爱他的王妃。希腊人一旦用到这个”爱“自，
必然预示很糟糕的事情。因为”爱情“无法控制，
就像一个外来的精灵附体，让人做稀奇古怪的事情。
国王有个宠爱的大臣，Gyges。一天国王问Gyges，
觉不觉得王后很美。Gyges当然说美。可是国王说，
百闻不如一见，你嘴上说美，心理可能不是很服气，
如果不看看王妃的样子－不穿衣服的样子。
Gyges大惊，以为国王试探他。赶忙说，他是从心理
往外觉得王妃很美，不用看了。国王不愿意了，非要
让Gyges去。Gyges知道，不管怎样，麻烦来了。
反正左右都是祸事，不如看看美人。于是他就进王宫
看了王妃更衣。
王妃当然知道，却没有当时发作。她也知道，那是国王的主意。
事后，她约了亲信，招Gyges入宫议事。Gyges知道麻烦来了。
可是有不得不去。王妃给Gyges两个选择，要么Gyges自己死掉；
要么Gyges去杀国王，娶王妃。Gyges不想自己死掉，只好杀王
篡位。
这个故事载于历史之父，希罗多德的名著《历史》。
其实也算不上神话。后来现代人借用这个故事写了小说，
拍成电影《英国病 |
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发帖数: 3461 | 2 ”In the account of Herodotus, which may be traced to the poet Archilochus
of Paros, Candaules insisted
upon showing Gyges his wife when unrobed, which so enraged her that she gave
Gyges the choice of
murdering her husband and making himself king, or of being put to death
himself. In the novel The
English Patient, Count Almásy (himself a disciple of Herodotus), falls in
love with a married woman
(Katherine Clifton) as she reads this Gyges story aloud around a campfire.
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发帖数: 15925 | 3 (zz from New York Times, an interesting read!)
A PART-TIME delivery driver named Peter Nunn was recently sentenced to 18
weeks in a British prison for tweeting and retweeting violent messages to
Stella Creasy, a member of Parliament. He never saw his victim but the
consequences of his virtual crime were real enough. In a statement, Ms.
Creasy described fears for her physical safety, going so far as to install a
panic button in her home. Mr. Nunn has been physically separated from the
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