山寨機

It would be worth the while to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, what foundation a door, a window, a cellar, a garret, have in the nature of man, and perchance never raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter? What does architecture amount to in the experience of the mass of men? I never in all my walks came across a man engaged in so simple and natural an occupation as building his house. We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

在網路上買了種植小麥草的培養盒，盒裡有小石子及種子。這種小麥草是用來幫寵物清除胃腸的毛髮的。我拆了一盒放在陽台上，卻在還沒發芽前就被不知道那裡來的小鳥吃掉了。一開始我還不知道是怎麼回事，只見盒內的種子都不見了，石子則有很多散在盒外。然後才想到應該是小鳥鑽到陽台來，在挑種子吃時把石子撥出來了。陽台是有鐵窗圍著的，所以小鳥應該不會很大。

陳玉峰先生節省到生活所需只要過去的五分之一就可以。他認為拼經濟是最大的錯誤；從每個人開始做起，生活只要現在所需的一半就足夠，明明煮三個馬鈴薯就夠，你煮五個就是錯。可是這樣的說法誰聽得進去。觀光客來不就是要他們買越多越好？我的父母親去澳門深圳旅遊，回來母親跟我說大陸現在好進步，我們台灣實在不能比，他們那個表演真厲害，小孩子身體可以彎來彎去，疊到好幾層樓高的地方。我跟她說那不叫進步，只有落後的國家才會叫小孩作那種表演。我母親才說，台灣的父母親才捨不得讓小孩去學那些。我的父親帶了一支山寨版的鑽石機回來。他已經快70歲，有時連手機響了都不知要接。可是卻買了一支連我都不會用的智慧型手機。他說這一台在台灣買正版的要一兩萬，他那一支只要兩三千。真不知是何種心態。但是現在這樣的老人家應該不少。如果可以，我父親大概也會學學台灣首富去討個嫩妻吧！
我一直很嚮往美國在拓荒時期的生活。一個男人，一輛馬車，載著老婆孩子，到一個新世界開始新生活。他們一開始可能只是在山坡下挖個地洞，作為最初的遮蔽處。梭羅說的好，最可以入畫的不是那些豪宅大廈，而是窮人的小木屋和村舍；使這些屋子有看頭的，不是它們的外表，而是住在裡頭的人的生活。如果每個人都能像鳥一樣築自己的巢，而不是靠建築師，設計師及營造商來蓋房子，那這個世界就不會這麼醜陋，而是處處寫生的材料。世間最動容的詩篇不會是在室內寫就，悅耳的鳴聲也不會來自洞窟的鳥叫。