吃下新生活館春茬最後一包米,口感有點像糯米,但沒有糯米般黏牙,確實彈性、彈性十足。一粒粒飽滿的稻米,呈黃色,像是海南雞飯那種油飯的顏色。
有機稻米得來不易,吃完兩公斤後,又要等下一茬。
這茬米飯,女兒吃得很滿足,一邊吃,一邊唸起李紳的《憫農》:誰知盤中餐,粒粒皆辛苦。這是其中一首她從學校學到,而我又有興趣解釋的詩。
與白白光滑的米相比,一口由朋友種出來的本土有機米,意義大得多。至少,它們承載著許多有待串連的人情關係。
Benjamin described his work as a "Copernican revolution" in the practice of history writing. His aim was to destroy the mythic immediacy of the present, not by inserting it into a cultural continuum that affirms the present as its culmination, but by discovering that constellation of historical origins which has the power to explode history's "continuum." In the era of industrial culture, consciousness exists in a mythic, dream state, against which historical knowledge is the only antidote. But the particular kind of historical knowledge that is needed to free the present from myth is not easily uncovered. Discarded and forgotten, it lies buried within surviving culture, remaining invisible precisely because it was of so little use to those in power.