——旧札新钞（178）

@  贝索（Michele Besso）1939年2月16日给爱因斯坦的信中说：在闵氏时空框架下，才第一次能贯彻大数学家黎曼的思想：时空框架本身是由处于其中的事件形成的。（In the setting of Minkowski's spacetime frame work, it was now first possible to carry through the thought which the great mathematician, Bernhard Riemann, had grasped: The space-time framework itself is formed by the events in it.）这说明了狭义与广义相对论的数学和哲学渊源。

@  《中庸》说“诚则形，形则著，著则明，明则动，动则变，变则化，唯天下至诚为能化。”辜鸿铭将其译为Where there is truth, there is substance. Where there is substance, there is reality. Where there is reality, there is intelligence. Where there is intelligence, there is power. Where there is power, there is influence. Where there is influence, there is creative power. 纯粹以西方哲学概念解读儒家思想，有趣却未必存“真”。五经本无“真”字，这儿不但有真，还有物质创生。

@  黄宾虹1943年11月6日给傅雷的信中，提到《韩非子》“画荚”，“言其画之隙处皆成龙蛇”，前任多以为神话，而“鄙见以为此论画虚处之宗师，宋元名画其致密之处必得如此方成绝艺”。其实，那段故事（见外储说左上）描述的是漆画在阳光下的效果，虽也涉虚实，但更多大概还是说漆画“绝艺”之奇。