瓊瑤 雪花 Chiung Yao, Top Romance Novelist in Chinese-Speaking World,； 電影The Room Next Door (建築物等多與此地不同.....French poster )引James Joyce 的 The Dead ( FROM Dubliners,)末段 Tilda Swinton's character, Martha, quotes its ending lines.：...the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. 吳牧青： 款待友誼、寫作、生命、藝術、死亡，多重稜鏡的好本子，迎接死神的方式Virginia Woolf 和 Susan Sontag 截然不同，而 Dora Carrington......

用"好文筆"說好故事，通俗暢銷讀物.....紐約時報訃聞 Chiung Yao, Top Romance Novelist in Chinese-Speaking World, Dies at 86 。Barbara Taylor Bradford, Whose Sagas Were Best Sellers, Dies at 91 。張愛玲與宋淇談瓊瑤，也談亦舒 (馮睎乾十三維度)

The author Chiung Yao in 2017. She published more than 60 novels and short-story collections, and most of her work was adapted for film and television.Credit...CNA/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

French poster for Pedro Almodóvar's "The Room Next Door" starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton…

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The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar


The Dead

by James Joyce

Excerpted from “The Dead”

Generous tears filled Gabriel’s eyes. He had never felt like that himself towards any woman, but he knew that such a feeling must be love. The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree. Other forms were near. His soul had approached that region where dwell the vast hosts of the dead. He was conscious of, but could not apprehend, their wayward and flickering existence. His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself, which these dead had one time reared and lived in, was dissolving and dwindling.

James Joyce

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living ...



In 2024, the story is at the center of the Pedro Almodóvar film The Room Next Door. It is constantly referenced and Tilda Swinton's character, Martha, quotes its ending lines.

• Joyce, James. "The Dead". Dubliners, Grant Richards, Ltd., 1914. pp 216-278. Literature in Context: An Open Anthology.

瓊瑤前幾年寫了《雪花飄落之前》，她逝世後在FB發文，題目是「當雪花飄落」。台灣是不下雪的，但那些雪存在於她的領域之中，是她在某個年紀某個地區的回憶，是某個感情的某個片刻。

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台灣作家用雪來比擬自己人生重要時刻，有點不倫不類，但瓊瑤完全可以這麼做——她的領域裡有自己的邏輯與物理定律，而傳統倫理，會在戀人的深吻裡被嚼得粉碎。

吳牧青  · 

【隔壁的房間】不要對死神的邀請拒於千里之外、病榻之間，款待她，如同打開另一個生命理解的世界。人權與倫理，何時有過布盧姆茨伯里派（Bloomsbury Group）情誼那樣的深刻？

改編前的原作者Sigrid Nunez 便置入了類自傳體寫作，把她和蘇珊桑塔格、蘇珊之子David Rieff的三角關係，置於其中，而作中之作裡，平行寫作的畫家 Dora Carrington 和 Lytton Strachey，Virginia Woolf，引為自況，再有了一層對位的關係。

Virginia Woolf 迎接死神的方式和 Susan Sontag 截然不同，而 Dora Carrington 則為了Strachey的胃癌病體，基進對位自殺，這些引用，都鋪墊在《隔壁的房間》裡，死亡作為不朽的那一面，死神，同時也將是你的作者，一起渡假的終章同伴。

阿莫多瓦無疑找到了款待友誼、寫作、生命、藝術、死亡，多重稜鏡的好本子，他所能對此作書寫所做的最大款待（如同作為最友善的死神那般），就是再度於選角工作，對位放上 Virginia Woolf 在《歐蘭朵》電影裡，乩身與靈體的Tilda Swinton，以及，在《時時刻刻》跟Virginia Woolf 跨代對視的Julianne Moore。