HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF THE CONSTELLATIONS OF HEAVEN
William Butler Yeats
I have drunk ale from the Country of the young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel tree and they hung
The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
Among my leaves in times out of mind:
I became a rush that horses tread:
I became a man, a hater of the wind,
Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head
Would not lie on the breast or his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies;
Although the rushes and the fowl of the air
Cry of his love with their pitiful cries.
BUDDHA
Rainer Maria Rilke
As though he listened. Stillness: something far ...
We hold our breath; our hearing though's too dim.
And he is star. And many a mighty star,
beyond our vision, is attending him.
Oh, he is all. Lingering, have we the least
hope that he'll notice? Could he ever need?
And if we fell before him here to plead,
he'd still sit deep and idle as beast.
For that in him which drags us to his feet
has circled in him for a million years.
He who forgets our hopes and fears
in thoughts from which our thoughts retreat.
- posted on 07/11/2004
To An Eternal Star
In a time the news broke
Amid the joyful cries of children
And the sweet air of fresh-baked cake
That you have fallen
Or have risen to a new star
Shining alone, as always
But now looking upon us from far
With your merciful eyes
How much sufferings are required
To give birth to the fierce fire
So brilliant, out of a singular mind
And it lightens a dark world of fear
I see trees of green, and peace in heaven
In my daily walk at dusk
It’s a wonderful world - when
Enlightened by all stars of the past
2004.7.10
- posted on 07/11/2004
呜呼，杨小凯也去世了。此前丝毫没有听说他患病的消息，竟然是肺癌，他们那一代人多有吸烟才能思考写字的毛病，不知道杨本人是否也嗜烟。
去年以前常看见他在网上出贴，言语间依然充满了如愤青一般忧国忧民天降大任于斯人的情怀，让人起敬。出贴大多也是以常识感论述大众关心的社会和经济问题，同是智者，不过比庸俗的王小波多了些书生气，言谈更喜欢用建设性的语调。同是数学背景，杨和大众一样喜欢主流的发展，让人感到希望。不象王小波那样喜欢用玩弄边角料特例来挖苦调侃证伪整个统计模型，让人感到无望。
随着中国这只经济怪兽的起立，我当时还妄想，他没准能将中国特殊政治效应加以量化，融入其惯用的数理经济模型之中，再从微观到宏观，对中国经济发展进行建模。如能给以时间检验，实践成功印证理论，一定能获得世界最高经济成就认可。去世了？有他那一代政治经历和经验的人，走了太可惜了。 - Re: 鎮煎康鏉ㄥ皬鍑厛鐢�posted on 07/12/2004
杨是难得的一位对中国政治经济问题有清醒认识的经济学家，与很多西方专家不同，他能准确看出中国经济发展的隐患，并给出最妥帖的治本办法。更重要的是，这人是华人知识界中难得一见的饱含人道理念和自由主义精神的学者，其人格在多少盛名的学者专家之上！杨的辞世是中国知识界的重大损失，这个缺憾在很长的时间内将无人能够弥补。呜呼哀哉！
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