軽井沢で４ (In Karuizawa 4)

　「菫台時報会」同窓会の2日目の昼、離山通りに面してウッドデッキのテラスを持つ軽井沢・川上庵（写真）で、豊かなソバのコース料理を食した（当日は雨天のため、テラスでなく屋内で）。ホテルへ荷物を取りに戻ったあと、明年は郷里・金沢で再会することを期して、午後2時頃、軽井沢駅で解散した。

Around noon on the second day of the reunion, we had a sumptuous meal of buckwheat course at Karuizawa-Kawakamian (the above photo), which had a terrace of wooden deck and facing Hanareyama Street (we ate not on the terrace but inside the building because of rainfall). After picking up luggage at the hotel, we departed at Karuizawa Station around 2:00 p. m. by hoping that all of us should be able to attend the next year's reunion to be held in our home town, Kanazawa.

From tweets of yesterday (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)

About Arts

『図書』11月号、80歳の方々の文が味わい深い。「無茶苦茶濫読の文学作品の記憶が、一人暮らしの楽しさを支えている。」——岩佐美代子「晴天に有明月の朝ぼらけ」。「［『坊つちゃん』末尾の］文章から受ける深い哀切感だけは動かしがたいのではないか…」——平岡敏夫「『坊つちゃん』のことなど」。

[English translation of the above] The November issue of "Tosho" includes 80-year old persons' appealing essays: "The memories of quite desultory reading of literature support the joys of my living alone." —Miyoko Iwasa, "Seiten ni ariakezuki no asaborake."* "I firmly believe that the last sentence [of Soseki's "Bocchan"] gives one the feeling of deep sorrow . . ."** - Toshio Hiraoka, "About 'Bocchan,' etc."
* In the clear sky, I see a wan morning moon, this dawn. (Taken from Kyorai's poem)
** "Bocchan" is generally considered to be a comical novel.

武満徹が『フィネガンズ・ウェイク』に触発されて作った曲『リヴァラン』について記した言葉、「曲は、一つの源流から派生する音楽的支流が、夜の風景を辿って、調性の海を目指して進んで行く。…」——大江健三郎が「ジョイスと武満」（『図書』2010年11月号 p. 35）に引用している。

About Life Science

[Retweet of BBC News's words] "Brain imaging pinpoints deception," BBC News (November 1, 2010).

About Mathematics

[Retweet of Republic of Math's words] James (@jamestanton), I added your video "Point Nine Forever" to my blog post "The moving pointer and 0.999…. A useful cognitive root."

About Physicists

"Obituary: Aage Niels Bohr," Physics Today November 2010, page 59. —'[. . .] Aage grew up amid the remarkable circle of scientists—"Uncle Kramers," "Uncle Klein," "Uncle Nishina," "Uncle Heisenberg," "Uncle Pauli," and so forth—who came to work with his father.'

About Physics

"Antarctic balloon sees particles with a million times more energy than the LHC," Guardian (October 29, 2010). —"The ANITA experiment is designed to look for neutrinos, but saw 16 ultra-high-energy cosmic rays by mistake." [Retweeted by skullsinthestars, P. F. Anderson and Gregory A. Good]

November-2010 issue of Physics Today includes articles "A time-symmetric formulation of quantum mechanics" and "String theory and the real world."

"At CERN, trillions of reasons to be excited about Large Hadron Collider," New York Times (November 1, 2010). —Dennis Overbye reports . . .

About Technology

[Retweet of P. F. Anderson's words] Very mixed feelings >> "Japanese nurse robot (Actroid-F) 2010" (Video).—A robot created by Kokoro Co. Ltd. and ATR.