心慟凡例 / An Instance of Sinthome

Alternate title: The Making of Hacking / 黑客行.

(Based on a conversation with 美乃滋章魚燒 on PerlYuYan / 中書珨, my first CPAN-published closet drama.)

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其實“黑”很容易解釋：

NDS 上有一款 Scribblenauts 游戲，

小孩寫什麼就會出現什麼。

The idea of "hacking" is actually simple to illustrate: On 兔肝猴 there's a game called 撰空, where kids can sketch out arbitrary concepts and it would automagically manifest in-game.

從小看楚辭長大的小孩，

自然就會希望自己寫“昨夜西風凋碧樹”

就真的跑出碧樹來。

So a kid growing up reading ancient Hellenic tragedies, would naturally wish that penning "the sacred river Alph" and a river would promptly appear.

後來小孩長大了一點發現可以寫程式做到這件事。

就醬。:-)

Then the kid grew up a bit and discovered programming can accurately project infantile omnipotence into a transitional zone. That's it. :-)

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後來照顧小孩的嬸嬸叔叔姑姑姑丈各自搬走，

小孩心臟病很嚴重不能出門旅行，

只能寫詩想念他們。

Shortly thereafter, the kid's primary caretakers - many uncles and aunts - formed families themselves and moved far away; the kid was born with severe ventricular septal defect and cannot travel at all, so the kid poured wailing into poetry.

後來發現這些詩只要押了特定的 -P 韻腳，

像是 TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, XMPP，
就有魔力。

After a while, the kid had a discovery: As long as the poems rhyme on -協, such as 傳控協, 用信協, 跨協, 超文傳協 and 擴訊現協, mysterious power would appear out of nowhere.

小孩一開始祇會寫案頭詩，

後來再大一點，和其他人一起寫詩劇，

如今交織成噗浪和臉書。

So the kid first wrote closet drama, and later learned to compose huge verses based on multipart/mixed playwrights.

Then the Age of Melodrama arrived; the scripts from the previous Age became publicly performed on the stages of Twitter and Facebook.

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藉助符文的力量，
真實世界裡的叔叔嬸嬸姑丈姑姑，
於是登入了詩中的幻境。

Thus it came to pass that Real aunts and uncles are now registering into the kid's Imaginary zone conjured from sheer Symbolic power.

以上是對於拉岡 Sinthome 概念的實例講解。:-)

The above is a field report illustrating Lacan's idea of 心慟. :-)

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