
刀锋
The Razor's Edge
William Somerset Maugham · 初版 1944 年
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这部据称取材于 Maugham 一位熟人生活经历的小说,讲述了一名饱受战争创伤的美国飞行员的故事,他放弃了以往常规的生活,去追寻更有意义的生存之道。在巴黎求学两年后,他决定踏上旅程,从事各种微不足道的粗活。尽管受到旅途中所遇之人的点化,但直到抵达印度,他才真正开始寻得内心的平静。
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The Razor's Edge
William Somerset Maugham · 初版 1944 年
这部据称取材于 Maugham 一位熟人生活经历的小说,讲述了一名饱受战争创伤的美国飞行员的故事,他放弃了以往常规的生活,去追寻更有意义的生存之道。在巴黎求学两年后,他决定踏上旅程,从事各种微不足道的粗活。尽管受到旅途中所遇之人的点化,但直到抵达印度,他才真正开始寻得内心的平静。
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我也想把威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《刀锋》(The Razor's Edge)加到这个书单里。“达到期望”的问题在于,人们往往把期望寄托在物质财富上,而那些东西转瞬即逝、虚无缥缈得难以置信。这本书,接着…
I would add The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham to this list as well. The problem with 'living up to your expectations' is that too often it's about material goods that are unbelievably fleeting and temporary. This book, followed…
…为了我的身心健康和幸福感。如果你觉得自己所做的事情得到了合理的报酬,就不要总想着去钻体制的空子。过好自己的生活、开心就好。你读过威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《刀锋》吗?
…for my mental health and well-being. If you feel like you are compensated appropriately for what you're doing, don't worry about gaming the system. Just be happy with your life. Have you ever read The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham?
…威廉·庞德斯通(William Poundstone)写的《天才数学家的秘密赌局》(Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street)。它把信息论先驱、投资人,以及堕落的赌徒和黑帮分子的共同追求串联了起来。虚构类:《刀锋》,萨默塞特·毛姆著。这是一部案例研究,探讨了不同类型的动机如何以建设性或破坏性的方式主导不同的人。《皇冠上的宝石》(The Jewel in the Crown),保罗·斯科特著。在每一章中,…
…Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street, by William Poundstone. Ties together the common quests of pioneers of information theory, investors, and degenerate gamblers and mobsters. Fiction The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham. A case study of ways in which different types of motivation can dominate different people in constructive and destructive ways. The Jewel in the Crown, by Paul Scott. In each chapter,…
…《圣经》/《古兰经》、《理想国》(柏拉图)、《社会契约论》(卢梭)、《道德经》(老子)、《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》(陀思妥耶夫斯基)、《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》(修昔底德)。近现代作品:《九故事》(塞林格)、《刀锋》(毛姆)、《恶心》(萨特)、《悉达多》(黑塞)、《通往奴役之路》(哈耶克)、《心之道》(阿兰·瓦茨)、《设计心理学》(诺曼)、《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》(兰德)、《隐形人》(埃里森)、《打倒经济学》(史蒂夫·基恩)、…
…Bible/Quran, The Republic (Plato), The Social Contract (Rousseau), Tao Te Ching (Laozi), Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) Newer Stuff: Nine Stories (Salinger), The Razor's Edge (Maugham), Nausea (Sartre), Siddartha (Hesse), Road to Serfdom (Hayek), The Book (Watts), Design of Everyday Things (Norman), Atlas Shrugged (Rand), Invisible Man (Ellison), Debunking Economics (Keen),…
萨默塞特·毛姆的《刀锋》就属于这一类。
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham is in this category.
…给我一千万美元吧,这样我就不用来上班了。那些在个人生活里有着具体的、“像打工一样”的目标的人,总让我觉得有点怪怪的。我说不上来为什么。有点像毛姆的《刀锋》里写的那样。
…give me ten million dollars so I can stop coming to work. People who have specific, 'work-ish' goals in their personal lives sort of weird me out. I don't know why. Something, something Maugham's The Razor's Edge.