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继续Weil

Weil越来越不可爱了。我看到一个聪明绝顶、才华横溢却对社会和自己的国家没有丝毫的爱,甚至是同情的人。

Weil坐牢了。他在监狱里,日子过得不错。数学方面尤其好:

My Mathematics work is proceeding beyond my wildest hopes, and I am even a bit worried- if it’s only in prison that I work so well, will I have to arrange to spend two or three months locked up every year? In the meantime, I am contemplating writing a report to the proper authorities, as follows: “To the Director of Scientific Research: Having recently been in a position to discover through personal experience the considerable advantages afforded to pure and distinterested research by a stay in the establishments of the Penitentiary System, I take the liberty of, ……

不久,他被审判了。Weil觉得审判是badly-acted comedy。宣判之前,法官问他有什么可说的。这时候Weil不讲大道理了。

This was no time for a show of bravado. I said that if I had to don a uniform, I was ready to do whatever the army asked of me; but I could not bring myself to speak of repentance.

服软了,但是还不认错!然后他被判入狱五年。但他有个选择,去服役,推迟判决。他苦思一整天,决定选择服役。然后Weil被派到Cherbourg去搬弹药上火车。

I told my comrades:”Don’t wear yourselves out, these shells are going to end up in your buddies’ faces anyway.”

他老婆在附近旅馆租了个房间陪同!他和同事居然开小差去吃喝,不干活。

我就看到这里了。还有很多细节,总而言之,现在Weil在我心里的形象就是开头说的那样了。

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