“Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my flood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and this rid myself of the eye forever”(Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart") 各位有過這種經驗嗎？明明就沒有人，卻總是覺得被人盯著看的感覺？

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"A Pale Blue Eye"

“He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey”(The Great Gatsby, ch. 3) 各位有遇過這種「一生可能會遇上四、五次」的微笑嗎？ #TheGreatGatsby

"He smiled understandingly"

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; . . .I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.("The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost) 希望生活觸礁、覺得人生路途艱辛的迷路者 多年後回想起自己走向「較少人走的路線」("I took the one less traveled by")而人生會因這個決定有所不同("And that has made all the difference") #poemsharing ------------------------Source Poetry Foundation<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken</a>