神思不属、心神难定之际，最易谋杀时间的方法就是看肥皂剧。昏天暗地，不眠少餐得追看了两季Criminal Minds，在惊悚于人性之荒谬残忍黑暗可怖的时候，自己的绝望苦痛忧惧烦恼反而被暂时搁置一旁，很少触及。
和一般刑侦剧集不一样的是，此剧侧重于运用心理学观点分析人类行为，剖析罪行背后的情感动机和触因，希望能于罪犯实施下一步恶行前抢占先机。观剧过程，让我不寒而栗的，还是人性的幽微曲折和深不可测。平常言谈中，人们常常提及人性、兽性之分，似乎良善之行属于有人性的范畴，而凶残之行则被冠以兽性之名。但其实，也许正如19世纪末期英国历史学家
James Anthony Froud所言：“野兽从不以杀戮为乐，人类却是唯一把追逐残杀自己的同胞当作娱乐的生物。” 类似的话，Mark Twain也曾说过：“Of all the animals,man is the only one that is cruel.He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." 若依此区分，也许我们对所谓人性、兽性的定义理解，应该颠倒过来。
该剧还有一个出彩点，每一集的片头或片尾都会引用一句名人名言，与剧情相呼应。简炼的一句话，或开宗明义，或点睛收尾，经由实例诠释，配合上所观所感，足以让你按下暂停键深思良久。
以下是自己收录的一些他山之石：
When you look long into the abyss, the abyss looks into you. (Nietzsche) —— 当你看向深渊够久时，深渊也会回看向你。
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad) —— 信仰超自然的罪恶根源无此必要，人类本身就能胜任于任何邪恶。
when love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. （Euripides）—— 爱得太深,会失去荣耀和价值
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.Try to be better than yourself.（Faulkner ）—— 别自寻烦恼地只想比你同时代的人或是先辈们出色,试着比你自己更出色吧.
Don't forget that I cannot see myself,that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.( Jacques Rigaut) —— 别忘了我看不到我自己,我的角色仅限于看向镜子的那人.
Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares。（Peter Ustinov）—— 不幸的是,多梦的代价就是--噩梦也将随之增多.
What it is food for ones,for others are poison bitter taste. （Lucrécio）—— 甲之美食，乙之砒霜。
I object to violence, because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent. （Gandhi ）—— 我反对暴力,因为当暴力被用来做善事,善事也仅仅是暂时的.
A photograph is a secret about a secret.The more it tells you,the less you know. （Diane Arbus）—— 照片是关于秘密的秘密--它揭示得越多，你知道的就越少.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. （Francois de la ）—— 在人前我们总是习惯于伪装自己,但最终也蒙骗了自己.
Whoever sets himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods。（Albert einstein ）—— 当一个人把自己当成真理和知识的法官时,他将被上帝的嘲笑毁灭.
In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth is a revolutionary act. （George Orwell）—— 如果世人热衷于谎言，说出真相就会是惊人之举。
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.The most massive characters are seared with scars. （Khalil Gibran ）—— 受苦能凸显坚强的灵魂。最明显的特征就是，那伤口痊愈的疤痕.
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone. （Milan kundera）—— 羞耻的本质并不是我们个人的错误,而是被他人看见的耻辱。
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we can't resemble. (Samuel Johnson ）—— 几乎所有的行为荒谬性均源自于模仿那些我们不可能雷同的人。
The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against. It's existence, rather, a condition of it. (Nietzsche) —— 一件事情的不合理性，不是驳斥其存在的依据，还不如以一种特定情况来证明。
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together。（Eugene Ionesco） ——意识形态分离了我们，而梦想和痛苦使我们走到一起。
Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. （Elizabeth Barrett Browning）—— 时间结束以前，事情做完以前，不要去评价你的工作。
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. （Abraham Lincoln）
It is whose we live with and love, and should know who loot us. （Norman McClain）
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe。（Nietzsche) —— 个体必须始终在社会中挣扎求生，才能使自己不致幻灭。
The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. （Harriet Beecher Stowe） —— 从坟墓里流出的最痛苦的泪水，是为了还没说出的话，和还未做过的事。
How secret deeps, How secret become dark, that's in the nature of secrets. ( Cory Doctorow) ——秘密如此深藏，秘密变得如此黑暗。这就是秘密的本质。
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.(Francois La Rochefoucauld)——思想上的缺陷和弱点，正如身体上的创伤一样，就算用尽一切办法将其治愈，仍然会留下疤痕。
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.（Rose Kennedy） —— 人们都说时间可以治愈一切伤口，我可不这么认为。伤口是一直存在着的。随着时间的流逝，出于保护，伤口被覆盖上疤痕，疼痛随之减轻，但这一切永远也不会消失。
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. （Oscar Wilde）—— 当人以自己身份说话的时候，便越不是自己。给他一个面具，他便会告诉你事实。
The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. （Erich Fromm）—— 人类终极的选择，往往取决于他能否超越自我，究竟是创造还是毁灭，爱或者恨。
In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear.（Ralph Waldo Emerson） ——为了洞悉生命中最重要的规律，必须一天战胜一种恐惧。
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. （Socrates）——最深的欲望总能引起最极端的仇恨。
The lives of the dead are recorded in the minds of the living. （Cicero）—— 生者记忆中，逝者长存。
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. Not a guide by which to live. （Robert Kennedy）——悲剧是生者获取智慧的途径，而非如何生存的指引。
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. （John Calvin）—— 受到败坏良知的凌迟，让生者如同置身于炼狱之中。
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. （Gandhi）——如同明日将死那样生活，如同永远不死那样求知。
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. （Charles Chaplin）——在这邪恶的世界上，没有什么能够永久，即使是我们的麻烦也不能。
两季终了，感官几乎麻木，一如自己近来的状态——空空如也。不妨以T.S.Elliot的一首诗”Hollow Man"做终结，也算贴切。
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
