Tham khảo tài liệu 'tony buzan mind maps and making notes phần 2', kỹ năng mềm, kỹ năng tư duy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | NOTING Last evening - the twenty-ninth of the eleventh month - an odd feeling came to me as I sat at my desk a sense of emptiness in the room. Then I became aware that my grass-lark was silent contrary to his wont. I went to the silent cage and found him lying dead beside a dried-up lump of egg-plant as gray and hard as a stone. Evidently he had not been fed for three or four days but only the night before his death he had been singing wonderfully - so that I foolishly imagined him to be more than usually contented. My student Aki who loves insects used to feed him but Aki had gone into the country for a week s holiday and the duty of caring for the grass-lark had developed upon Hana the housemaid. She is not sympathetic Hana the housemaid. She says that she did not forget the mite - but there was no more egg-plant. And she had never thought of substituting a slice of onion or of cucumber . I spoke words of reproof to Hana the housemaid and she dutifully expressed contrition. But the fairy-music had stopped and the stillness reproaches and the room is cold in spite ofthe stove. Absurd . I have made a good girl unhappy because of an insect halfthe size of a barley-grain The quenching ofthat infinitesimal life troubled me more than I could have believed possible . Of course the mere habit of thinking about a creature s wants - even the wants of a cricket - may create by insensible degrees an imaginative interest an attachment of which one becomes conscious only when the relation is broken. Besides I had felt so much in the hush of the night the charm of the delicate voice - telling of one minute existence dependent upon my will and selfish pleasure as upon the favour of a god -telling me also that the atom of ghost in the tiny cage and the atom of ghost within myself were forever but one and the same in the deeps of the Vast ofbeing. And then to think of the little creature hungering and thirsting night after night and day after day while the thoughts ofhis guardian
