长假适合放空，在此处有龙“唱诗”特别节目的第3集（Songs of the Dragons 3）中，请和我们一起伴随琴声与歌声，悠游古奇尼（Fracesco Guccini）和马可·波罗（Marco Polo）笔下的亚细亚，探索异域/他乡（Elsewhere）迷思作为人类文明进步的核心内驱力之一，其动力机制，其悖论，其幻境。

你将遇见的龙族有：柏拉图、古罗马剧作家特伦斯（Publius Terentius Afer）、十字军战士、狮心王理查(Richard Lionheart)、萨拉丁（Saladin）、马修·巴里(Matthew Paris)、马修·派瑞(Matthew Perry)、马可·波罗、托马斯·阿奎那(Thomas Aquinas)、彼得大帝(Peter the Great)、歌德、赫尔曼·黑塞（Hermann Hesse）、西蒙娜·薇依（Simone Weil）、西蒙娜·韦伊(Simone Veil)、西蒙娜·德·波伏娃、伊丽莎白·毕肖普、布莱塞·帕斯卡（Blaise Pascal）、米兰·昆德拉、刚过世的教皇方济各一世（Pope Francis I）等。

你生命中的异域，或对异域的向往，曾为你创造过什么？欢迎留言告诉我们。

我们将在今年晚些时候策划小型线下见面活动，届时将有Songs of the Dragons现场弹唱，我们也将邀请踊跃留言的龙友一起来参加面对面的互动交流。

假期快乐！

@本期主播：  包慧怡、桑阳

@制作人： 张泽熙

Detail of Catalan Atlas (1375) depicting Marco Polo travelling to the East during the Pax Mongolica

Abraham Ortelius, Chinae olim sinarum regionis nova descriptio 【《中国新图》，收入1584年版《寰宇大观》，今藏香港科技大学图书馆】

Sebastian Münster, Tabula Asiae VIII 【《亚洲第八图》，1540年版，今藏香港科技大学图书馆】其中有对“丝国人”的拉丁文描述：“中国人（丝人）是一切生灵中最安静的人，不与其他民族发生贸易往来。 他们的寿命相当长，最后无疾而终。”详情参见包慧怡，《图绘丝国：十五十六世纪欧洲地图上的中国》，《世界美术》2023年。

Coat of arms (16–18th cent.) of Venice

Lion in an English medieval bestiary.

The Venetian fleet heads towards Constantinople on 12 April 1204.

Nonantola Abbey:

本期节目歌词：

中世纪动物寓言集（bestiary) 中猫和老鼠（Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS764 ）：

黑塞乡间闲居时的小屋子手绘及散文：

Hermann Hesse, especially in Wanderung and works like Siddhartha, uses Erlösung more in an existential or psychological sense:

• As inner liberation or personal awakening


• A form of self-overcoming or spiritual clarity


• Achieving peace through introspection rather than external doctrines

Simone Adolphine Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943)

推荐阅读：《柏拉图对话中的神》，西蒙娜·薇依 / 吴雅凌（译） / 华夏出版社 / 2012

Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris (Matthæus Parisiensis, 'Matthew the Parisian', c. 1200 – 1259), was an  English Benedictine monk, chronicler, cartographer who was based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.

Self-portrait of Matthew Paris from the original manuscript of his Historia Anglorum (London, BL,  MS Royal 14.C.VII, folio 6

Matthew Paris' painting of the elephant of Louis IX of France, a present to Henry III of England. Illustration from the Chronica Majora II, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Originally published: 1965 | Author: Elizabeth Bishop. It is Miss Bishop's first volume of verse since Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto:  "I am man, nothing that is human is alien to me".

It is a phrase originating from Publius Terence Afer (c. 184 BC-159 BC), from his comedy Heautontimorumenos (The tormentor of himself), where it is pronounced by the character Cremes to justify his meddling.

Pelican （鹈鹕）:

Beavers Bit Off Their Own Testicles:

Medieval bestiary's depiction of a beaver hunt/testicle （British Library & British Museum）.

Mosaic of Marco Polo displayed in the Palazzo Doria-Tursi, Genoa, Italy, 1867