李敖: 才女与美女如何兼备; Li Ao: Pretty Women vs Brainy Women
Some lectures by Li Ao on his talk show.
- https://youtu.be/0mUQyqGfJiE
- 李敖语妙天下 才女与美女如何兼备 2009-02-26
In the above, he mentioned a book: [American Policy Toward Communist China: The historical record: 1949 to 1969 By Foster Rhea Dulles. Buy at amazon ]
The quoted passage, using the word “leash”, is this:
Montblanc Fountain Pen
He chatted about luxury fountain pen, among other things.
In it, he has written a poem, published as a ad, for the luxury fountain pen maker Montblanc 's 100 anniversary. The poem goes thus:
附庸風雅情多有, 隨波逐流理可無。 名牌滿身一身淺, 筆底深處見功夫. --李敖題萬寶龍
luxury and elegance, pursues the plebeian fashion and show, wave following waves brand names allover shallow bodies it's in the marks of pen, reveals depth (translation by Xah Lee)
附 庸
Fantastic.
Virginia Woolf and Montblanc Fountain Pen
He also talks about Virginia Woolf (1882 to 1941). He also mentioned and showed us, that the Montblanc produced a special edition of their fountain pen in memory of Virginia Woolf. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
After completing the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel, Between the Acts, Woolf fell into a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. The onset of World War II, the destruction of her London home during the Blitz, and the cool reception given to her biography of her late friend Roger Fry all worsened her condition until she was unable to work. On 28 March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Woolf's body was not found until 18 April 1941. Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk's House, their home in Rodmell, Sussex.
In her last note to her husband she wrote:
Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that -- everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
He mentioned the unfairness of Nobel Prize. Virginia died without getting a Nobel Prize. In 1938, 3 years before her death, it was given to a women Pearl S. Buck (1892 to 1973). Nor was it given to Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828 to 1910) (War and Peace, Anna Karenina). Nor the Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad (1857 to 1924).
On Brigitte Bardot
He also mentioned the french actress, formel sex symbol, Brigitte Bardot (born 1934). He mentioned, that when she's old, she does not have any mirrors in her house, because she's unable to stand seeing her old ugly self, and how she became a “animal rights” activist.
Li Ao quotes this ancient poem:
粉绵磨镜不忍照， 女子盛时无十年。 --陆放翁(陆游) (1125 to 1210)
polished mirrors i dare not look a woman's beauty beams less than ten (translated by Xah Lee)
These movie star ignorant idiots. It's animal rights, or human rights, or this and that donation, causes, helping out, save the world shit, because when they are old, they don't have any content, but still a human animal with vanity and self-worth consciousness. The inane “helping out” behaviors are their self-redemption.
One story of her cited by Li Ao, is how she castrated a neighbor's donkey because she thinks the donky is sexually harassing her female donkey. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
She once had a neighbor's donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its “sexual harassment” of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey's owner in 1989.
In 1999 Bardot wrote a letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of “torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs”.
For vids of her youth, search YouTube Brigitte Bardot.
Li Ao mentioned a poem by John Donne (1572 to 1631). For the transcription, see: The Bell Tolls for Thee; 鐘為汝鳴.
In this part, he talks about the ex movie star, his ex-wife, Hu Yin Meng (胡茵梦)