如果台海是一道送命題，是否或多或少解釋了川普回歸？

A Gamemaker？

回顧歷史，大多數戰爭的發生都有跡可循。但穿越回發生前夕那個時間點，當下大部分的人都渾然不覺。最近就有兩個非常鮮明的例子，一個在二零二二，一個在二零二三。

陳真醫師曾說道小可愛的同學們不是移民了，就是在辦理移民。剛巧我旁邊就是一位在二戰爆發前搬離歐洲的第三代，我曾問當時她祖父如何毅然決然選擇離開。

『感覺。』

或許很多人會黑人問號什麼鬼答案，但在我這就是正解。舉凡當時出台的政策到民間氛圍，嗅覺靈敏的該能猜到她的族裔和信仰是什麼。

國外從泰連呆灣傻傻分不清，到現只要會上網有看新聞的都知道台灣。從陸配、大罷免到國民黨同意增加預算，菲律賓的囂張和戰敗小日的上躥下跳，乃至之前的印巴空戰到俄烏衝突，和最近的稀土管制。這裡面沒有一件事能分開看；過去就像一幅靜態拼圖，把發生的事連結拼上即可，而現在則是一盤激烈廝殺的棋局⋯⋯一場無硝煙的戰爭。

我曾經問過好些人，你覺得第三次世界大戰有可能嗎？或者，你覺得我們現在是否身處第三次世界大戰？答案全是否定的。我猜人類的大腦有種自我保護機制，有點像漫畫版銃夢裡耶路市民的腦內調停機，會主動選擇「和諧」，即便現實世界已呈現不可思議的傾塌歪倒⋯⋯或『倒行逆施』。

有一說是六成的藍星最強軍都集結在中國大陸周圍，那九三閱兵的含義其實很簡單，就是「Don't ever think about it」。

實際效果怎樣，從我處的地域、人們的耳語，更多傾向同情菲律賓和二戰戰犯小日子。換句話說就是，「i don't give a fuck」。

⋯⋯ 這是九月四日我的感想，棋局仍在進行。

天朝上國有段對白觸動我甚深：

King Baldwin IV: Come forward. I am glad to meet Godfrey's son. He was one of my greatest teachers. He was there when, playing with the other boys, my arm was cut. It was he, not my father's physicians, who noticed that I felt no pain. He wept when he gave my father the news... that I am a leper. The Saracens say that this disease is God's vengence against the vanity of our kingdom. As wretched as I am, these Arabs believe that the chastisement that awaits me in hell is far more severe and lasting. If that's true, I call it unfair. Come. Sit.
[they sit down on opposite sides of a chessboard]
King Baldwin IV: Do you play?
Balian of Ibelin: No.
King Baldwin IV: The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except remain where you started, and you can't be sure of your end. Were you sure of your end once?
Balian of Ibelin: I was.
King Baldwin IV: What was it?
Balian of Ibelin: To be buried a hundred yards from where I was born.
King Baldwin IV: And now?
Balian of Ibelin: Now I sit in Jerusalem, and look upon a king.
King Baldwin IV: [Baldwin chuckles] When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end, really, or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.
Balian of Ibelin: I will.

名垂青史和一般民眾相距甚遠，而舉頭三尺有神明又似和萬古流芳八竿子打不著；但實際上兩者就一回事。

如果要我給歪果仁翻譯翻譯，什麼是九三⋯⋯

⋯⋯ 老實說，我譯不出來。

因為大部分的歪果仁都沒有全球史觀，整個西方就是楚門的世界。

飢餓遊戲出新書，叫做 Sunrise on the Reaping。

我還沒看。

我只知道這首歌我很喜歡。

Arcade Fire: Abraham's Daughter
https://youtu.be/fDpiOVVUrVM