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1 mile in 55min

Michael Jackson is dead…

Art/Literature/Journalism

• Edward Abbey (1970–1989), author and environmentalist
• Helen Andelin (born 1920), author
• Erma Bombeck (1927–1996), author, newspaper columnist and humorist
• "Ted" Ettore DeGrazia (1909–1982), American impressionist painter, sculptor, and lithographer
• Zane Grey (1872–1939), author and novelist
• Bil Keane (born 1922), cartoonist
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), prominent architect of the 20th century
• Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), artist / photographer
• Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), Author-teen literature novelist. Twilight (series)

Poetry

• Jon Anderson (born 1936), poet
• Jayne Cortez, poet
• Norman Dubie (born 1945), poet
• Alberto Ríos (born 1952), poet
• Richard Shelton, poet
• Jim Simmerman (1952–2006), poet
• Luci Tapahonso (born 1953), poet
• Ofelia Zepeda, poet

Science/Medicine

• Percival Lowell (1855–1916), astronomer and founder of the Lowell Observatory
• Russell Merle Genet, research scholar and astronomer

今天偶发奇想，决定拜访文化名人，科学家，艺术家故居，写一个随感系列，或是叶公好龙系列，就从麻州开始吧。。。先烈个李斯特：

Literature

• Louisa May Alcott, author
• Horatio Alger, author
• Elizabeth Bishop, poet
• Anne Bradstreet, poet
• William Cullen Bryant, poet
• Stephen Daye, printer
• Emily Dickinson, poet
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
• John Kenneth Galbraith, author, educator, and public official
• Theodor Seuss Geisel, author and illustrator
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist
• Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author
• Jack Kerouac, author
• Stanley Kunitz, poet
• Peter Laird, Comic book creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Henry Cabot Lodge, author and public official
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
• Charles Olson, poet
• Sylvia Plath, poet, author, and essayist
• Edgar Allan Poe, author and poet
• Daniel Scott (writer), author
• Henry David Thoreau, philosopher
• Edith Wharton, author
• John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist
• Jane Yolen, author
• Mark Shasha, author

Authors and Poets

• Louisa May Alcott, Concord (Little Women)
• Elizabeth Bishop, Worcester (poet)
• Augusten Burroughs, Amherst (Running with Scissors)
• Robert Ellis Cahill, Salem (Three dozen books on New England History and Lore)
• E.E. Cummings, Cambridge (poet)
• Emily Dickinson, Amherst (poet)
• W. E. B. Du Bois, Great Barrington (The Souls of Black Folk)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord (Nature, The Transcendentalist)
• Robert Frost, Lawrence (poet)
• Nicholas Gage, Worcester writer and journalist
• Theodor Geisel, Springfield (the Dr. Seuss books)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, Salem (The Scarlet Letter)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Cambridge (poet)
• Jack Kerouac, Lowell (On the Road)
• Stanley Kunitz, Worcester—Poet Laureate of the United States
• Timothy Leary, Springfield (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)
• Michael Patrick MacDonald, South Boston (All Souls)
• Stephen McCauley, Woburn (The Object of My Affection)
• Charles Olson, Worcester (poet)
• Sylvia Plath, Boston (The Bell Jar)
• Edgar Allan Poe, Boston ("The Raven")
• Henry David Thoreau, Concord (Walden)
• George Santayana, Boston (The Life of Reason)
• Daniel Scott (writer), Braintree (Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning, Pay This Amount)
• Anne Sexton, Newton (poet)
• Michelle Tea, Chelsea (Rent Girl)
• Thomas Paine, (Common Sense)
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Concord (In the forests of the night, Demon in my View)
• Bernard Cornwell, Chatham (Richard Sharpe (fictional character))

Science

• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
• Luther Burbank, horticulturist
• Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
• Robert Goddard, inventor
• Elias Howe, inventor
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
• Gregory Pincus, scientist, developed birth control pill
• Eli Whitney, inventor
• William T.G. Morton, dentist and physician, first successful public demonstration of an inhalation anesthetic

Artists

• Frank Weston Benson, painter
• John Singleton Copley, painter
• Thomas Dewing, painter
• Childe Hassam, painter
• Winslow Homer, painter
• Fitzhugh Lane, painter
• Willard Metcalf, painter
• Robert Reid, painter
• Norman Rockwell, artist
• Paul Ryan, cartoonist
• Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter
• Edward Simmons, painter
• Frank Stella, artist
• Edmund Charles Tarbell, painter
• Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist
• Mark Shasha, painter, author

最近情绪不是很高，感觉对生命的理解好像变化了很多，好像对新鲜事物不是那么兴奋了，连研究结果也不让我兴奋了，即使最近的实验很顺利，马上就会投出两篇论文。。。我在想要是能成天游手好闲，看看书，画画画，写写诗，想想哲学问题，不用工作该多好啊！可是这是梦想，我像世间大多数人一样都被某种东西奴役着，从生物上讲是自私的基因，它要我竞争竞争，抢资源抢资源，繁殖繁殖。。。从世俗讲是欲望，荣誉，地位。。。从电子上讲是驱动程序，循环命令。。。薇苇说她要信基督了，我觉得也是时候了，信吧。。。我崇拜里尔克有一阵子了，他也是信基督的，他的诗集《时辰祈祷》就是献给基督的。。。

主啊，赐给每个人他自己的死亡。
这个死，来自他的生命，
有他的爱、思想和苦难。

O Herr, gieb jedem seinen eignen Tod.
Das Sterben, das aus jenem Leben geht,
darin er Liebe hatte, Sinn und Not.

(Ave Louis Pasteur, by iphone)

Today’s record: 36 laps=1800 yards=1 645.92 meter=1.022 727 272 7 mile, 64 min

今天读自然杂志里的一篇书评，介绍这本书：Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism
by Christine Poggi 。 抛弃过去的一切，追逐无限的未来。。。这是多么浪漫的思想啊！记住这个人吧，Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti。。。决定借来一读。。。

“自由是一个完整而不可分割的整体，只要还有人被 奴役，生活中就不可能有真实而完满的自由。”

“除了被奴役者不得自由，即使奴役他人者也同样不得自由”

“我们反抗奴役，但我们自身不能建立新的奴隶制度。”

                                                        ——林昭

最近看了很多历史，中国的历史，感觉中国还在不断地在自己的怪圈里循环着。。。乐观的人说，不要着急，事情正向好的方向发展，这需要时间。。。悲观的人说，已经4000年了，看不到一点希望。。。 五十年前林昭挺身而出，然而多数有同样思想的人都被迫低头了，在枪口下低头了；二十年前一群人挺身而出，更多有同样思想的人低头了，又是在枪口下低头了。。。今天的人们还在重复着祖辈的事情。。。人民并不愚昧，人民也不胆小，成王败寇，非我即敌，等我做了皇帝就来收拾你；我们要民主，但是我们掌握了权利就收回民主了，你们要民主，再革命吧。。。如此看来中国人却还很愚昧。。。这次回国，应该去苏州看看这位巾帼英雄的墓地。。。