好多年之前
我初在澳日寫專欄的時候
有另一張報紙邀請我寫專欄
我的反應很直接
就是問:有無稿費
對方搬出一大堆理論
又說了一大堆經營問題
結論是不會有
他們說給你寫專欄是給你機會
他們認為其報紙可以幫你增加知名度
他們差
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday
一星期內一定要修改好論文。美麗老細指示了幾個新概念。接近等於重寫「幽默」和商品化。
下面那篇長文,就當是鹹魚慢慢送飯吧。
和人大吵的時候,對方說「道歉對你而言是沒有意義的」,我心想你小子怎麼知道,我和你可沒那麼熟。後來我找到了這段書鈔:
然而,「抱歉」是多麼詭異而歧異的一個語彙,所有的抱歉之語(對不起、我錯了、失禮、請見諒