关于讣告
杂志上看到一则讣告，第一反应是物理学的那位Weinberg挂了，仔细看了以后才知道是一位银行战线的Weinberg同志。想到读一个人的讣告或者纪念文章确实是一件很有趣的事情。翻开学术年鉴（一年一本砖头的那种），最开始的几块地盘一般是留给本年度驾鹤西去的几位领域内大牛，或者也可以说终于又有几个肥缺空出来了。七八页好友所写生平包含了此人一生在别人眼中的大大小小。对我来讲，相比著作或者文章，这些讲诉有趣故事的东西显然要亲切太多。有时想象如果可以提前看到自己的讣告不是很尴尬，感觉很奇怪的事情，起码不要告诉我是哪期的杂志。
设想如果在我的讣告中（有的话）有这样一条：曾经给一位瞪大水汪双眼（渴求知识）的美丽女士耐心讲解若干年前学就的积灰甚厚之智识，并得此位女士点头赞许，那么就应十分满意。
电影缘分天注定中，庄君好友是一位在纽约时报专职写讣告的不得志小编，最后为好友写作的讣告被另一位有文采的小译转作文言，当时印象深刻。现找出如下，在后来的字幕(同样是旁白)中看到的如此翻译只有DH中的一集，当然没有超过此作，虽然之中为追求文采不免有时偏离原意。
Senrendipity 缘分天注定
庄纳顿.卓加……
有线体育台优秀监制
既失红颜，复破婚盟
肝肠寸断，遂于昨宵撒手尘寰
享年三十有五
庄君文质彬彬，公而忘私
平素言行，绝无痴态
孰料，阳寿将尽之际……
流露鲜为人知的浪漫
刹那惊艳，化作萦回梦魂
遍觅芳踪，历尽一波三折
本性情怀，浮现无遗
呜呼，踏破铁鞋……
方觉一番心事悉付东流
语云：匹夫可以夺其爱……
不可夺其志
庄君依然坚信……
人生际遇绝非偶然
冥冥中，上苍早已……
安排周详，丝毫不爽
其友文坛巨擘……
时报主笔甸恩谓……
庄君晚年脱胎换骨
有所顿悟
一言以蔽之……
欲臻天人合一……
须坚信一字
此字古已有之
于今亦然，唯“缘”而已
Jonathan Trager
prominent televisionproducer for ESPN,
died last night from complications of losing his soul mate and his fiance.
He was 35 years old and soft-spoken and obsessive.
Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic.
But in the final days of his life,
he revealed an unknown side of his psyche.
This hidden quasi-Jungian person a…
surfaced during the Agatha Christie-like pursuit for his long-reputed soul mate,
a woman whom he only spent a few precious hours with.
Sadly, the protracted search ended late Saturday night…
in complete and utter failure.
Yet even in certain defeat,
the courageous Trager secretly clung to the belief…
that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences.
Uh-uh. But rather it’s a tapestry of events…
that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan.
Asked about the loss of his dear friend, Dean Kansky,
the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and executive editor of the New York Times,
described Jonathan as a changed man in the last days of his life.
Things were clearer for him, Kansky noted.
Ultimately, Jonathan concluded that if weare to live life in harmony with the universe,
we must all possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call "fatum,"
what we currently refer to as destiny.- Destiny.
