張大春,《本事》
Pseudo Knowledge
Jerry Liang
I. 代序: 地圖=本事
  1. 地圖的無用: "人若有認識世界的能力, 則不應假借人自身以外的能力去認識, 越是借助於方便工具所得到的知識, 越容易在我們無能體驗的情況下被簡化或混淆。"
  2. 地圖的功用: 讓人在廣大的歷史和空間中尋求定位。
II. 侏羅紀公園+中東回教文明和北方蠻族的第一次接觸+Antonio Banderas+中國五代史=〈蠟槍頭〉。
  1. Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead --
(synopsis from Amazon: In the year AD 922, a refined Arab courtier, Ibn Fadlan, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric North. He is appalled by Viking customs--the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But only in the depths of the Northland does he learn the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh.)

And Michael Crichton 所刪之 "notoriously inaccurate" history of Ibn Fadlan

  1. 張大春自己的研究:
    1. 何密《默齋拾遺》-- 923 AD 有卒獻"蠟勢"
    2. 李繼《踐淚湖堂存稿》--925 AD 西域駝商攜入以奇貨居之。
    3. 李殿《雪毆札叢》-- 92~ AD 有虯髯客大漠中拾一囊。
    C.  結論: 中西交流的笑話 (decentering)

III. 猴王故事三篇:〈猴王案考〉〈「猴王」是贓物?〉〈本來都是我,何處惹猴毛〉

  1. 張大春,〈猴王案考〉: 主要由四份史料中以推得孫悟空之真實來歷其實是吳承恩之密友孫覺需 (四份史料為丁晏的《頤志齋集遺稿》, 吳承恩的《紫煙館集》, 徐中行的《天目山堂集》, 以及一份俄國學者的猿/人雜交聯想的資料)
  2. 淮上客,〈「猴王」是贓物?〉對張推論的質疑--
     C.  答辯: a. 排版的錯誤; b. 張李原為同一人