七百七十五
雜書：
《美学的结构》
The Structure of Aesthetics
容安館札記
錢
鍾
書
談藝者衹道眼之於色，耳之於聲，佛書所謂根不待接之“離中知”也。鼻、舌、身、香、味、觸皆接根之“合中知”，則比之自鄶(參觀 J. Volkert, System der Ästhetik, Bd.I, S.94-100; B. Croce, Estetica, 10a ed., pp.517 ff.; R. Bayer, Histoire de l’Esthétique, p.73; F.E. Sparshott, The Structure of Aesthetics, p.330)。而鑑賞之識、審別之力，又取喻於舌之辨味（參觀Croce, Estetica, pp.208 ff., 529;又第八一則、二二七則），二事若相鑿枘。夫味即觸之一種，E.E. Kellett, Fashion in Literature, p.3: “Taste comes from tangere — it is an intensive form of that verb. In this sense, the tangent tastes the circle ... We came to limit tasting to touching with the tongue or palate, & forgot entirely that it once was used of contact with the tips of fingers” 其言是也。Samuel Butler 嘗欲作文，題曰：“The Sense of Touch: An essay showing that all the senses resolve themselves ultimately into a sense of touch, and that eating is touch carried to the bitter end” (The Notebooks, ed. H.F. Jones, p.230)，殊有妙解。
《美学史》
Histoire de l’Esthétique
蓋舌之於味，最為親切融冶，非若其他識、塵之尚判物、我界也。故佛書有“識食”之喻（見第二五則）。Novalis, Fragmente, §999: “Der Sinn überhaupt isst, verdaut” (ed. E. Kamnitzer, S.348); Feuerbach: “Das Geheimnis des Opfers”: “Der Liebe ist ... herzliches und mündliches Essen” (Sämmtl. Werke, hrsg. Wm Bolin & Fr. Jodl, Bd.X, S.60)（參觀第六二○則），亦隱然以口之於味為眼、耳、鼻、身、色、聲、香、觸之究竟義矣。常語如“秀色可餐”“一口水吞了他”亦相發明。Dante, Purgatorio, VIII. 76-8， Nino de’ Visconti 言其婦在世已忘逝者，云：“Per lei assai di lieve si comprende / quanto in femmina foco d’amor dura, / se l’occhio o ’l tatto spesso non l’accende”1; Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII. 579 ff. Raphael 誡 Adam 云：“But, if the sense of touch, whereby mankind / Is propagated, seem such dear delight / Beyond all other, think the same voutsafed / To cattle & each beast” (Poetical Works, “Everyman’s Lib.”, p.175); Alexander Bain, Emotions & Will: “Touch is both the alpha & omega of affection” (H.Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, III, p.6 引)，可以參觀。【《大智度論》卷十七《釋初品中禪波羅蜜》：“云何呵觸？此觸是生諸結使之大因，繫縛心之根本。何以故？餘四情各當其分，此則遍滿身識；生處廣故，多生染著，此著難離”；又卷三十五《釋奉缽品第二》2：“世間中五欲第一，無不愛樂；於五欲中，觸為第一，能繫人心；墮在深泥，難可拯濟。以是故，諸天方便，令菩薩遠離婬欲。……若受餘欲，猶不失智慧；婬欲會時，身心荒迷，無所省覺，深著自沒。以故諸天令菩薩離之”云云，蓋以色欲為觸覺之極致。】
《弥尔顿诗选》
Poetical Works
