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Literal translation of the title = The Song of the Lords

One of the ancient sacred scrolls of Hindu religion. Henry D. Thoreau, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot each found inspirations from this Song. This Gita is largely a conversation between Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna. The charioteer Krishna is the reincarnation of a house-hold deity in the Hindu culture -- if you go the Asia-wing collections of museums -- say Freer & Sackler Galleries of D.C. or the Met of NYC (of course, do Hong Kong have such an art collection here?) -- then you can find paintings of Lord Krishna.

The basics of the Gita is that Arjuna is going into battle with his cousins and teachers and friends for the control of the kingdom -- he has doubts with going into battle against his kinsmen. At the battle field, Krishna is reasoning with Arjuna and motivating him into courageously fighting the war.
The ultimate battlefield is in his heart.

Here is one part of their conversations that I found interesting:
"-->" denotes "gives rise to"
Lust --> Attachment to sensuous objects --> Desire --> Anger --> C0nfusion --> Memory Lapses --> A Lost of Understanding --> Ruin

As a side note, I think this translation of Miller, B. is way better than that of Dover Edition. I bought the Dover edition for USD1.00 at Walden, Mass. a few years back, I was lost in that translation and could not complete it despite a few trials. That Walden is the Walden Pond that Thoreau sojourned. If you happen to wander into Boston, I strongly recommend you for a trip to Walden -- a way nice place -- don't miss that literary tour at Concord and take a ghost tour at night -- really scary...

Completed a good parts of the nine mutually exclusive stories.
I particularly dig "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- feels as depressed that as if I can blow myself up on any given day off. "The Laughing Man" is a singular story-in-story plot -- if I could have a girlfriend who can strike well in the diamond and I could drive a school bus in N.Y.C. or could depend on some trusty sidekick traveled all over to bring the elixir for my dying self, I would be a laughing man.

Picked this book from the shelve last evening -- wanted to know a thing or two about String Theory. Interested in this concept after reading Jiang's (江) comics from Sunday Ming Pao a couple of months ago. Basically, string theory delves into the smallest part that lie in an atom -- strings are energy strands that vibrate in different frequencies. This theory lies the promise in uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity -- becoming a "Theory of Everything" -- describing matters of small and big. Those strings are infinitesimally small -- which can't be seen directly and empirically. I think one of the footnotes on String Theory is quite gripping -- claiming someone should not reject a theory on the basis that the premise/object being discussed cannot be directly observable or refutable. For example, Greene says the proof of atoms exists is shown in Brownian motion, or the proof of black holes exists is through observing gas being sucked into black holes -- but not seeing atoms or black holes themselves.