Classical Music

Johann Sebastian Bach

约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫
1685-1750

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

沃尔夫冈·阿马德乌斯·莫扎特
1756-1791

Ludwig van Beethoven

路德维希·范·贝多芬
1770-1827

Frédéric Chopin

弗雷德里克·肖邦
1810-1849

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

理查德·瓦格纳
1813-1883

Die Walküre

Ride of the Valkyries，美国越战电影《现代启示录》便以此曲作为片中配乐。

Lohengrin (opera)

The “Bridal Chorus” (German: “Treulich geführt”) from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march played for the bride’s entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world. In English-speaking countries, it is generally known as “Here Comes the Bride” or “Wedding March”, but “wedding march” refers to any piece in march tempo accompanying the entrance or exit of the bride, notably Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”. Wagner’s piece was made popular when it was used as the processional at the wedding of Victoria the Princess Royal to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858.

Das Rheingold

Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla在Alien Covenant (2017)中有使用

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

彼得·伊利奇·柴可夫斯基
1840-1893

Copyright

These exclusive rights are subject to a time limit, and generally expire 70 years after the author’s death or 95 years after publication.

中华人民共和国著作权法

视听作品及2021年6月1日前进入公有领域的摄影作品，其保护期是作品发表后50年截止，而其他作品则是作者死亡后50年截止。2021年6月1日前未进入公有领域的摄影作品版权，其保护期是作者死亡后50年截止。

Logic

Mathematical logic

Logical connective

  • “非”（¬）、“与”（∧）、“或”（∨）、“条件”（→）以及“双条件”（↔）。

Material conditional (实质条件)

also known as material implication

Necessity and sufficiency (充分必要条件)

  • “若P则Q”为真时，P称为Q的充分条件，Q称为P的必要条件。

Truth table (真值表)

路易斯·卡罗早在1894年就公式化了真值表来解决特定问题，但是包含他这项工作的手稿直到1977年才被发现。维特根斯坦的《逻辑哲学论》利用真值表把真值函数置于序列中。这个著作的广泛影响导致了真值表的传播。

Quote

the happier the time, the shorter it seems. Pliny the Younger

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw

knowledge is power. Francis Bacon

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus

无痛的性爱宛如无味的食物。 Marquis de Sade

Everything that has been written by men about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party.
All that has been written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once judge and party.
但凡男人写女人的东西都是值得怀疑的，因为男人既是法官又是当事人。François Poullain de la Barre

Im Frieden kommst du nicht vorwärts, im Krieg verblutest du.
战争中你流尽鲜血，和平中你寸步难行 Franz Kafka

所有的小说，细想起来都是自传。 Anatole France

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery Charles Dickens

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. Stéphane Mallarmé

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself Jacques Cousteau

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon’s razor

Sooner or later, everything old is new again. Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

Poet

William Wordsworth

1770-1850

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772-1834

George Gordon Byron

1788-1824

  • 拜伦在就读剑桥时实行严格的节食以控制其体重，拜伦的运动量很大，而且穿许多衣服使自己出汗。

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822

John Keats

1795-1821

  • 1821年1月，济慈的健康状况缓慢而稳定的向肺结核最后阶段恶化。他的尸检显示他的肺几乎已完全解体。

Heinrich Heine

1797-1856

Walt Whitman

1819-1892

惠特曼的重要著作《草叶集》则是于1855年自费出版，尝试着让普罗大众接触美国史诗，直至1892年逝世之前仍不断增著、删修该著作。

Emily Dickinson

1830-1886

与同时代的惠特曼，一同被奉为美国最伟大诗人，后世对她的诗艺、恋爱生活、性取向多有揣测。

Stéphane Mallarmé

1842-1898

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1850-1892

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806-1861

Arthur Rimbaud

1854-1891

T.S. Eliot

1888-1965

The Waste Land and Other Poems

Elizabeth Bishop

伊丽莎白·毕肖普
1911-1979

Mary Oliver

1935-2019