This is my favorite aria.
Maria Callas.
It's Andrea Chenier.
Umberto Giordano.
This is Madeleine.
The place that cradled me is burning.
I'm alone.
Do you hear the heartache in her voice?
Can you feel it?
Now, in come the strings, and it changes everything.
It's like the music... it fills with a hope.
And that'll change again,listen.
Listen.
I bring sorrow to those who love me.
Oh, that single cello!
It was during this sorrow that love came to me.
A voice filled with harmony.
It said, live still.
I am life.
Heaven is in your eyes.
It's everything around you. It's the blood and the mud.
I am divine!
I am oblivion!
I am the God...
that comes down from the heavens to the earth...
and makes of the earth a heaven.
I am love.

1．光照：圣诞红是喜光花卉，生长旺季要求光照更强。因此，不应放于较暗的客厅中，宜放于光照较强的阳台上，时间每天不少于4小时，否则容易引起落叶。

2．温度：圣诞红适宜生长温度在15℃至30℃之间。温度较低时，花的叶片易蜷曲脱落，在保证温度适宜的同时还要注意定时通风换气。

3．土壤条件及浇水：圣诞红喜通气性良好的微酸性土壤，一般市场上销售的盆花回家后不用换盆，等生长一年后再换盆，换盆时使用市场上销售的南方花土即可。浇水要见湿见干，盆土过湿影响土壤通气性，易造成烂根，导致叶片发黄脱落，盆土过干可引起叶缘干枯、叶片萎蔫脱落。

4．施肥：圣诞红喜肥，缺肥会导致花生长缓慢，叶片发黄脱落，可每星期浇稀薄肥水一次，但在开花期，为使花开的时间尽量长一些，要适当控制肥水。施肥可自制肥水，方法有三，一种是把黄豆加水放在容器中发酵后稀释使用；方法二是麻酱渣泡水2天至3天后稀释，但此法易产生异味，可在花盆中埋几片橘子皮，去除异味；方法三是到花卉市场购买专用花肥。

5．修剪：花开败后，应将花头去掉，一般一枝上留2个芽，待芽长出后根据株形选留4个至6个饱满壮芽，将其余弱芽抹掉，使株形圆满、美观。

6．催花：一般正常管理，元旦前后即可开花。若要在下半年提早开花，可于预计开花前2个月进行遮光处理，方法是每晚5点至第二日早8点全遮光，白天正常光照，经过2个月的时间，再进行正常管理，即可使圣诞红提前开花。

     For this man, Pericles entertained an extraordinary esteem and admiration, and, filling himself with this lofty, and, as they call it,up-in-the-air sort of thought, derived hence not merely, as was natural,elevation of purpose and dignity of language, raised far above the base and dishonest buffooneries of mob-eloquence, but, besides this, a composure of countenance, and a serenity and calmness in all his movements, which no occurrence whilst he was speaking could disturb, a sustained and even tone of voice, and various other advantages of a similar kind, which produced the greatest effect on his hearers. Once,after being reviled and ill-spoken of all day long in his own hearing by some vile and abandoned fellow in the open marketplace, where he was engaged in the dispatch of some urgent affair, he continued his business in perfect silence, and in the evening returned home composedly, the man still dogging him at the heels, and pelting him all the way with abuse and foul language; and stepping into his house, it being by this time dark, he ordered one of his servants to take a light, and to go along with the man and see him safe home.  Ion, it is true, the dramatic poet,says that Pericles's manner in company was somewhat over-assuming and pompous; and that into his high bearing there entered a good deal of slightingness and scorn of others; he reserves his commendation for Cimon's ease and pliancy and natural grace in society. Ion, however, who must needs make virtue, like a show of tragedies, include some comic scenes, we shall not altogether rely upon; Zeno used to bid those who called Pericles's gravity the affectation of a charlatan, to go and affect the like themselves; inasmuch as this mere counterfeiting might in time insensibly instill into them a real love and knowledge of those noble qualities.

 

                         ——Plutarch, <Lives of the Noble Grecians and Roman>