EIFFEL TOWER AS MYTHOLOGY 鐵塔穹蒼下

I really don't know why I suddenly think of Paris, the city of romance. As the symbolic and iconic representation of Paris, the well-known Eiffel Tower inevitably appears in my mind. "Like man himself, who is the only one not to know his own glance, the [Eiffel] Tower is the only blind point of the total optical system of which it is the center and Paris the circumference." Roland Barthes wrote in his book “ The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies ” . It ’ s so true! To grasp the perfect scenery, you should avoid getting too close to the Tower; you should view from a distance. This philosophy in appreciation of matters can also be applied to various aspects in daily life. Got it?

別問我忽爾想起巴黎啊，我可沒法一一言詮。談到浪漫的巴黎就必然想起艾菲爾鐵塔，而提到鐵塔便不自覺憶起羅蘭巴特在《The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies》 一書中關於它的論述：「置身鐵塔就如落在視網膜中的盲點，是在巴黎市中唯一無法看見艾菲爾鐵塔的地方。」說得真妙。要留存最明媚絢麗的圖景，只需遠眺欣賞，一旦步到太近，甚至置身其中，原來的美景便會自然陷落崩坍。情況有若置身巴黎鐵塔中，極目遠望，只會瞥見老舊的建築和傲慢的人潮啊。