Chapter 2865 Unforgivable Secret (2)

If you only read Helen Keller's articles, it's easy to get addicted to her descriptions.

As a little girl, she learned to row and swim and practically lived on boats during summer vacations in Massachusetts. Although she can't steer the boat very well, she needs a person to sit at the stern and steer the boat, but sometimes she can row the boat without the rudder, because she can adjust the direction of the boat by smelling the water grass in the river and the lilies and shrubs on the bank. .

Sometimes when she was lying on the boat cushions, when she put her hand in the water, she seemed to be able to touch the moon's reflection in the glistening coat, occasionally a bold little fish passed through her fingers, or a shy white water lily Wipe the back of your hand.

This person in the dark seemed to be shrouded in a bright warmth, even on occasional windy and stormy days, she still had this feeling, as if her lips had left a scar on her cheek. warm kiss.

She undoubtedly has talent and perseverance, because without these things, even with external conditions, she cannot be poured into the dark world.

But if Helen Keller's family conditions were not good, and her parents were unable to hire tutors, especially this kind of special one-on-one tutoring, and buying special supplies for the blind, what kind of life would she live?

Helen Keller's father, Colonel Keller, was born in a prominent family in the southern United States. He was the owner and editor-in-chief of a newspaper. Her mother was also from a prominent family. She was 20 years younger than her father and was his second wife. And she is a famous local beauty.

Because of money and power, her parents were able to hire Mr. Sullivan from the famous school for the blind as Helen Keller's teacher.

Ma Keqin was born in a poor family in Maine, USA. Like most self-taught people, Ma Keqin did not have enough money to receive a better education and relied entirely on his own hard work. He started working as an apprentice at the age of 14, working 16 hours a day, and occasionally went on short trips and hunting with his brother in his free time, which not only exercised his body, but also returned to school with the money he sold animal skins Student life is also short.

Studying costs money, even if it is not a special school, one-on-one teaching, or a particularly patient teacher.

Then Ma Keqin started working as a worker again. Ma Keqin made various designs and improvements to the carriage, which improved the carriage business. Therefore, after working for 4 years, he became the owner of a small flour factory and also a worker.

Because the flour mill was infested by mice, Ma Keqin successfully made an automatic mouse trap, which saved his flour mill from losses. Unfortunately, the flour processing at that time usually did not pay in cash, only the flour. Maqin was unable to support his own business, and the flour mill closed down.

During the Civil War, he joined the local security team and soon retired. Then he went to Canada and changed dozens of jobs. After the Civil War, he went to Boston. He became interested in gas lighting and invented an automatic fire extinguisher. At that time, the richest gentleman in the country established a gas lighting production company on Broadway, New York.

In 1880, Maxim and Edison became competitors in the New York City municipal lighting tender. Many people know that Edison is the inventor of the electric light, but the electric light that Edison invented uses direct current.

There is a problem here, because the direct current transmission distance is less than 30 kilometers, otherwise the voltage is too low, and the lights cannot be turned on at all. The only way to solve this problem is to build a power station near the user, and every 30 kilometers requires a roaring generator machine.

Gas lighting, even flammable gas lighting, was much cleaner and quieter by comparison, but Edison managed to squeeze Maxim away.

Such a relationship network can be sorted out from the description of Helen Keller. She knew the great reporter Mark Twain at the time, the famous judge Holmes, and the then President of the United States. She also had dinner with Edison.

The first time they met was in New Jersey, Helen Keller had just finished speaking there, and Edison invited her to his house. The first impression he gave her was that he was very serious and unsmiling, but his wife was very enthusiastic.

Mrs. Edison said that her husband was so focused that he often shut himself up in the laboratory to work all night and prohibited others from disturbing him.

He said to Helen Keller, "Helen, it is also good for you not to hear any sound, at least in a silent world, without any external interference, it is easy to concentrate, which is very good."

Helen Keller said, "If I were an inventor like you, I wish I could invent a machine that the deaf could hear by wearing it on their ears."

But Edison said, "Really? I think this matter is very boring, because most of the human beings say nonsense, which can be listened to or not."

Helen Keller tried to express her point of view in person, but Edison said that her voice was gurgling like boiling water, and he couldn't hear clearly, so Edison asked Mr. Sullivan to relay it.

Helen Keller was only born in 1880, of course she could not participate in the lighting competition of Maxim and Edison. Since the invention of direct current and light bulbs, Edison has been trying to monopolize, but his biggest competitor is not Maxim and his gas lighting company, but another inventor, George Westinghouse, who is a supporter of alternating current. He once proposed building a power station at Niagara Falls to provide lighting for the Chicago World's Fair.

This involves a genius named Nikola Tesla. The Serbian came to the United States to find Edison with a letter of recommendation, and wanted to realize his dream of alternating current from him. After receiving the letter of recommendation, Edison sent Tesla La stayed in his own company.

At that time, Westinghouse had planned to build 68 AC central power stations in the United States, but the core technology he needed, the alternator patents, were owned by a company owned by his competitor Edison. Tesla, $50,000 was not a small amount at the time. After joining the company, Edison made a bet with Tesla to let him design 24 different new machines. Of course, these patents were all in the name of Edison.

At first Tesla focused on accomplishing this goal, but he gradually found that Edison was unwilling to support alternating current, so in 1888 he jumped to the power company of Westinghouse.

But in the same year, a child in New York died because of touching high-voltage wires. An electrical engineer named Brown publicly condemned the dangers of alternating current and believed that it was "fatal." So Edison seized the opportunity to sponsor Brown and let him prove it through a large number of experiments. Alternating current hazards.

They electrocuted an elephant, which killed three people because of being enslaved for many years. Later, Edison and Brown also invented the electric chair, which proved that the electric chair was fast and painless in front of the Communist Party, provided that alternating current was used. The purpose of this is to inject fear into people's hearts and make people equate alternating current with death. However, no matter how hard Edison tried, alternating current was popularized throughout the United States, and the genius Nikola Tesla not only invented 24 kinds of machines, he There are more than 700 patented inventions, which are close to Edison's more than 1,000 inventions.

Helen Keller once wrote: I hope that the war will end, the world will achieve peace one day, and human beings can live a happy life. At that time, people will no longer look forward to heaven after death.

As a blind and deaf person like her, it is not easy for her to keep herself from falling into the darkness, solve things within her capacity independently, avoid causing trouble to others, and live well.

Helen Keller has been to Hollywood, and she has seen those beautiful actresses, and she feels that she is ugly, fat, and physically disabled.

If those beautiful girls had parents like Helen Keller, would they still need to go to Hollywood to dream of being a star?

That movie was made into a movie based on "The Story of My Life" written by Helen Keller, which was later called "Redemption."

Pomona doesn't believe that people who do good deeds will go to heaven to be saved. This kind of "shit". If people do the right things, they should be alive when they want to be saved. According to Buddhists, this is called "reward of the present world" .

Suffering is not praiseworthy, it does not bring success, and it is not worth pursuing.

She doesn't like poverty and chastity in the Middle Ages, but pain can make people sober. What she sees is a laurel wand. He is only loyal to his first master. Anyone who touches it will be struck by lightning spontaneously. of.

"Say something," he told her.

There is such a class of people who, when they have power, take advantage of it. They are originally hopeless.

But there is still a little love in Snape's heart, the love for Lily, she made him remember the lesson, and he can no longer speak freely.

Today he made a mistake again, although what he said was right, as Schopenhauer said, when people get together, there are only three topics, one is to beat around the bush to show off oneself, or to belittle others with embellishments, and to spy on each other and tell tales.

She was originally a very vulgar person, so she wanted to make the "goddess" a "woman" and make others as vulgar as she was.

She is not good enough for him, neither in appearance nor in soul.

So she raised her wand, and a gust of wind blew up the shed that was going to keep her from the rain, and went straight up into the sky, and blew away the cumulonimbus clouds in the sky.

When the clouds cleared and the sky was filled with stars again, how beautiful the Milky Way is in midsummer.

"That's what I want." Pomona said, looking at the stars in the sky. "You think there's nothing wrong with going after what you want, Severus."

He looked at her quietly.

After a while, there was a sharp sound, and then a firework exploded in the sky that had just cleared.

Everyone wanted to let it go a long time ago, but because of the heavy rain just now, now that the rain has stopped, of course we can enjoy ourselves in time.

She turned her gaze to him.

"Clean up this place, or do I need to teach you the Restoration Charm?" Pomona asked.

He took out his wand and repaired the wooden bridge with a silent spell. No matter how far the pieces of wood flew, they returned to their original positions one by one.

"Nice job," she said, laughing, and walked away from the bridge with ease.