God is in a word. God is in a word. God is in HER. She said, “Her, HER, HER, I am Her, I am Hermione… I am the word AUM.”
“I am the word AUM” frightened her. She tired to forget the word AUM, said “UM, EM, HEM” clearing her throat, wondered if she had offended something, clearing her throat trying to forget the word… I am the word… the word was with God… I am the word… HER.
《聖經》的「作者群」很明顯不只是為了當地、當代人的個別社會情境的溝通。《聖經》的寫作成為了對歷史,對遙遠的未來的一種歷史性介入和重劃:只要一天有人相信、信仰,嘗試理解,以至質疑「In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God….」這一句話,裡面的「上帝」就會一路在人們的信心中存在,或在辯證中成為可能。
I am the word AUM:她連一個「字」都不是、她只是一個啍聲,無以形容,無法區分。
她聽見自己說,「I am the word AUM」,她嘗試忘記但她不能忘記,她害怕,說出真相會冒犯了甚麼(something)。在男人的語言裡,「她」是第三身單數,但她名叫HER,「她的」,那麼一定有屬於她的甚麼、以至她的全部,只是那並不屬於「世界」的部分、不算作「世界」的內部,「世界」沒有涵蓋。一切以外,還有。
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1. H.D. HERmione. New York: New Directions. 1982. p32
2. 於是我想到Ina Grigorova的一句話:「having the word may have the magical power against the unravelling of the world.」
3. 希伯來原文「מְרַחֶ֖פֶת」一詞,英譯多為「hovering」、「moving 」,並沒有中譯「運行」所隱含的規律或方向性。
4. 這樣我們會比較容易明白,何以《浮士德》的主人公在復活節的早上,概嘆行醫者無能、殺人比戰禍更多,才又一個人回到書房裡,一輪斟酌苦思,把《約翰福音》首句翻譯做「Im Anfang war die Tat 」,「 die Tat」,即行動 (Deed / Act),也就是意志的體現;現代神學家/哲學家Gordon Clark (1902-1985) 更直接把它譯作「邏輯」:「In the beginning was the Logic, and the Logic was with God and the Logic was God. 」;天主教教宗本篤十六世亦曾強調,基督信仰(Christianity )始終應被理解為邏各斯的宗教(Religion of Logos)(01/04/2005, Lecture at Convent of Saint Scholastica in Subiaco, Italy.)見: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0143.html。
Derrida 甚至認為,猶太人作為一沒有國土之民(People),乃基於對一部經傳的篤信。
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The WAR IS OVER! campaign was originally launched by John and Yoko on 15th December, 1969. Billboards with the inscription “WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) Happy Christmas from John and Yoko” were placed in 11 cities worldwide: New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Rome, Athens, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Along with these billboards leaflets were distributed, posters plastered up, newspaper advertisements placed and radio announcements made.
When John was asked how much the billboards cost, he replied “I don’t know- but it is cheaper than someone’s life.”
The WAR IS OVER! campaign was originally launched by John and Yoko on 15th December, 1969. Billboards with the inscription “WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) Happy Christmas from John and Yoko” were placed in 11 cities worldwide: New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Rome, Athens, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Along with these billboards leaflets were distributed, posters plastered up, newspaper advertisements placed and radio announcements made.
When John was asked how much the billboards cost, he replied “I don’t know- but it is cheaper than someone’s life.”
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Never meant you no harm
Never meant you no harm, yeh yeh
Never spun you no yarn
Never spun you no yarn, yeh yeh
And she’ll go yeh, where he goes, yeh
We all go where nobody knows our name
If I step out of line
I’ll step out of line, yeh yeh
Over land over sea
One step two to Ynys free
And she’ll go yeh, where he goes, yeh
We all go where nobody knows our name
And don’t cry if crying means you’re sorry
Whatever the case I always felt out of place
As a matter of fact I always felt like that around you
I’m disinclined to toe the line
Under your thumb where I’ve become unwanted
So pick your way down to the sea
Pick your way to the sea, yeh yeh
It’s not the tide you gotta watch it’s me
Not the tide you got it’s me, yeh yeh
And she’ll go yeh, where he goes, yeh
We all go where nobody knows our name
And she’ll go yeh, where he goes, yeh
We all go where nobody knows our name