《在英倫的漂油》

你我都是幫兇

最近聽到一個農村微型產業的故事：有一群來自台北，熱心、有理想的社區工作者，積極輔導社區媽媽成立手工藝的產業組織。一開始，外來者帶來許多社會資源，手工藝作坊很快發展起來。不久後，為了組織長期生存（外界資源總有停止的一天），組織工作者開始要求發展大量接單、大量生產的作業模式，以便降低成本、控制品質，於是社區媽媽與組織工作者發生衝突，集體離職成立另一個組織。

這樣的故事不斷反覆發生，只是媒體很少報導。但故事還沒完。新的組織崇尚傳統手工藝的生產方式，每個作品都有自己的生命，社區媽媽不會覺得自己是女工，而是創作者。國家的資源不斷在尋找這樣有潛力的個案，於是，來自中央政府的某個方案，又挹注了一筆經費。但政府不可能白白給錢，一定要看到「成果」。於是，社區媽媽被要求擴充組織。新進來的工作者，一開始被賦予的目標，就是要有「成果」。於是，新的衝突再度產生，追求效益與追求獨創的力量，讓組織再一次面對分裂。

DESPERADO

Eagles

Desperado

Book Group Questions
THE DA VINCI CODE
1. A number of characters in this novel could be considered "villains." What motivates each of these individuals? What role do misguided passions play in their actions?

2. As a symbologist, Robert Langdon has a wealth of academic knowledge that helps him view the world in a unique way. Now that you've read The Da Vinci Code, are there any aspects of life/history/faith that you see in a different light?

「社會學帶給我們最重要的東西並不是一套特殊的事實或理論，

而是一種威力無窮的方式，讓我們能夠觀察世界、思考世界、思

考我們和世界的關係。社會學為我們開了一扇通往世界的窗，也

Graham Greene on The Quiet American:

When my novel was eventually noticed in the New Yorker the reviewer condemned me for accusing my "best friends" (the Americans) of murder since I had attributed to them the responsibility for the great explosion -- far worse than the trivial bicycle bombs -- in the main square of Saigon when many people lost their lives. But what are the facts, of which the reviewer needless to say was ignorant? The Life photographer at the moment of the explosion was so well placed that he was able to take an astonishing and horrifying photograph which showed the body of a trishaw driver still upright after his legs had been blown off. This photograph was reproduced in an American propaganda magazine published in Manila over the title "the work of Ho Chi Minh" although General Thé had promptly and proudly claimed the bomb as his own. Who had supplied the material to a bandit who was fighting French, Caodaists and Communists?

…Perhaps there is more direct rapportage in the The Quiet American than in any other novel I have written. I had determined to employ again the experience I had gained with The End of the Affair in the use of the first person and the time shift, and my choice of a journalist as the "I" seemed to me to justify the use of rapportage. The Press conference is not the only example of direct reporting. I was in the dive bomber (the pilot had broken an order of General de Lattre by taking me) which attacked the Viet Minh post and I was on the patrol of the Foreign Legion paras outside Phat Diem. I still retain the sharp image of the dead child couched in the ditch beside his dead mother. The very neatness of their bullet wounds made their death more disturbing than the indiscriminate massacre in the canals around.