2022-08-28 Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·II (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window

         Did not desire that feathery argentines

         Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds

         Should foam, be foamy waves, should move like them,

         Nor that the sexual blossoms should repose

         Without their fierce addictions, nor that the heat

         Of summer, growing fragrant in the night,

         Should strengthen her abortive dreams and take

         In sleep its natural form. It was enough

         For her that she remembered: the argentines

         Of spring come to their places in the grape leaves

         To cool their ruddy pulses; the frothy clouds

         Are nothing but frothy clouds; the frothy blooms

         Waste without puberty; and afterward,

         When the harmonious heat of August pines

         Enters the room, it drowses and is the night.

         It was enough for her that she remembered.

         The blue woman looked and from her window named

         The corals of the dogwood, cold and clear,

         Cold, coldly delineating, being real,

         Clear and, except for the eye, without intrusion.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《最高虚构笔记——它必须快乐·之二》(1942年)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            蓝色女子，波浪卷打上发胶，窗前

            并非指望羽毛状的银币

            纯灰色，既不渴求浮云

            起泡，成为白沫波浪，任其漂移，

            又不期待性感之花停止绽放

            无需嗜爱成瘾，也不向往炎热

            夏日，夜晚弥漫着香气，

            促使其梦想破灭而依旧保持

            睡眠状态。别无所求

            只要她记住：春天的

            银币来到葡萄园自己的地方

            平息红润的脉搏；泡沫云

            仅仅是浮云；泡沫花

            无需荒度青春；从此过后，

            当八月松林的煦暖

            进入房间，正是睡意朦胧夜幕降临。

            只要她记住就别无所求。

            蓝色女人从窗前看到了所谓

            山茱萸的珊瑚，凉爽地、

            完全地、冷漠描画地、真实地、

            清晰地，除了眼光，毫无接触。

【注】曼哈顿“弓岛”地狱厨房区以前曾是比较落后、爱尔兰移民集中的街区。

此外，纽约的魅力同时绽现在它的绰号上：

1. 大苹果(The Big Apple)

2. 不夜城(The City That Never Sleeps)

3. 帝国城(The Empire City)

4. 山羊之家或傻子村(Gotham)

5. 灯笼裤(Knickerbocker)

6. 大熔炉(The Melting Pot)

7. 新河畔(New Amsterdam)

8. 多山(Manhattan)

9. 摩天楼之城(The City of Skyscrapers)

10. 大都会(The Metropolis)

11. 世界金融中心(The Financial Hub)

12. 美国城市(America's City)

13. 盟约之城(The City of the Covenant)

14. 朋克大暴走之城(The City of Neon and Chrome)

15. 五个直辖区(The Five Boroughs)

16. 全球最大的城市操场(World's Biggest Urban Playground)

17. 世上最棒的城市(The Greatest City in the World)

18. 赞誉不绝的好城(The City So Nice They Named It Twice)

19. 宇宙中心(The Center of the Universe)

以下街拍主要聚焦在纽约中下城居民区地标性建筑。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2022: An Upscale Mall @ Hudson Yards, NYC(纽约勇帅之子园区高档商场)

2022: The Edge, Highest Sky Deck in NYC(纽约边沿·西半球最高的空中甲板)

2022: The Vessel & Hudson Yards, NYC(纽约容器与勇帅之子园区)

2022: Sophomore Yr @ Union Square of NYC(大二生活·纽约联合广场)

2022: An Euphoric Rush into Sophomore(欣快冲入大学二年级)

2014: GHCS Camp─Spoons Card Game(光华夏令营《勺子》扑克游戏)

Overview of Hell's Kitchen-Midtown Manhattan from the Edge @ 100^th-Fl Observation Deck

(从100层边缘观景台鸟瞰纽约地狱厨房街区与曼哈顿中城)

Jenga Tower Viewed from the Exit of Holland Tunnel

(从荷兰隧道出口处观望叠叠乐“建造”塔楼)

12^th Street Ale House @ L & Juke Bar @ R

(左：12街啤酒屋——右：跳舞酒吧)

The Alamo, Mexican Restaurant @ 304 E 48^th St

(东48街304号·杨树墨西哥餐厅 08-12-1994)

Time Sq @ 42^nd St & Broadway 

(42街与绅士街·时代广场 05-31-2014)

7^th Ave @ W 51^st St (第七大道西51街 05-31-2014)

Google Bldg, Former Union Inland Terminal #1 & the Port Authority Bldg @ 8^th Ave

(第八大道谷歌大厦·前联合内陆一号码头与矿务局楼)

Vancity Parking @ 9^th Ave & W 31^st St

(第九大道西31街·袖珍停车场)

Hell's Kitchen, a Bastion of Poor & Working-Class Irish Americans 

(地狱厨房街区·贫穷和工薪阶层爱尔兰裔美国人的堡垒 08-22-2022)

The Shed & 15 Hudson Yards (棚屋建筑与哈德逊园区15号)

The Vessel against 35 Hudson Yards

(《容器》雕塑建筑与背后的哈德逊园区35号)

West Chelsea @ 10^th Ave & 24^th St

(第十大道24街·西白垩码头区)

The Edge of North Tower @ 30 Hudson Yard

(勇帅之子园区30号北塔·“边沿”观景台)

NoMad @ 10^th Ave & 28^th St

(第十大道28街·神赐之子广场公园北区)

High Line @ 10^th Ave & 30^th St

(第十大道30街·高架桥)

Hudson Yards, Manhattan's Last Frontier

(哈德逊“灵魂”园区·弓城最后的疆域 08-28-2022)

The Façade of St. Ann's Church (1847) Stands as a Folly in Front of NYU's Founder's Hall @ East 12^th St

(东12街纽大创始人新生宿舍楼·位于1847年建造的圣安妮“优雅”教堂)

Fast-Paced Streets of NYC @ 8^th Ave @ W 34^th St 

(第八大道西34街·纽约市节奏快捷的街道)

Harry Styles Concert @ Madison Square Garden

(麦迪逊“神赐之子”广场公园——哈里·斯泰尔斯“管家·陡坡”演唱音乐会)

Moynihan Train Hall w/ Entrances & Corinthian Colonnadethe, Largest of Its Style in the World & Finishing at a Pavilion on Each End

(莫伊尼汉“僧侣后裔”火车大厅·入口和世界上最大的奢华柱廊，四端分别建筑亭阁结构)

Moynihan Train Hall w/ Headhouse Clock in the Beaux-Arts Style

(莫伊尼汉火车大厅·学院派风格的候车室钟表)

Parsons School of Design @ New School

(新学院·帕森斯“牧师”设计学校)

Loeb Hall of New School (新学院·勒布“狮子”学生宿舍大楼)

Bas Relief above Bronze Doors of St Patrick's Cathedral

(圣帕特里克“高贵”大教堂·铜门上浅浮雕 05-14-1994)

The Hotel At Fifth Avenue (1910) @ 17 W 32^nd St

(第五大道酒店·位于西32街17号，建于1910年)

Gimbel's Bridge (1925) in Elegant, 3-Story Skybridge w/ an Eye-Catching Art Deco Façade & Wall-to-Wall Windows @ W 32^nd St toward the East

(西32街建于1925年朝东方向的金贝尔“红腹灰雀”桥·优雅的三层天桥，带有引人注目的装饰艺术外观和墙到墙的窗户)

Gimbel's Inter-Building Bridge Built after Gimbel's Purchased the Saks Company in 1923. Continually in Direct Competition w/ Macy's 

(金贝尔楼间桥·金贝尔兄弟百货收购了渔网公司后建造于1923年，随之继续与梅西“武器”百货直接竞争)

Gimbel's Inter-Building Bridge toward the West

(朝西方向的金贝尔楼间桥)

St. Francis of Assisi Church (1892) in Gothic Revival @ 135-139 West 31^st St

(西31街135—139号方济各教堂·建于1892年，哥特复兴式)

Ragpicker (拾荒者)

Street Fair @ 4^th Ave & E 12^th St 

(第四大道东12街·街头集市)

Puerto Rican Fair @ 4^th Ave & E 12^th St

(第四大道东12街·波多黎各市场)

Fulton Market (富尔顿“家禽聚集地”集市)

West Thames St Pedestrian Bridge

(西泰晤士“流动”街人行天桥)

Rector Park Gate Built of Steel, Bronze, & Granite, Being Part Gotham & Part Metropolis as Bolts of Electricity Rise up its Shafts to the Skeletal Cupola & Fanciful Spires of Its Crown

(由钢、青铜和花岗岩建造的雷克托“统治者”公园大门，一边是傻子村，一边是大都会，电源螺栓从通风井上升到框架冲天炉和皇冠奇特的尖顶)

Lamp @ Rector Park (雷克托公园·地灯)

South Cove Park Featuring Walkways & Quays w/ Scenic Harbor Views & a Relaxed Atmosphere & a Pagoda-like Museum of Jewish Heritage in the Background

(南湾公园·拥有人行道和码头，可欣赏到优美的海港景色、轻松的氛围以及背后的宝塔式犹太遗产博物馆)

Little Italy, a Setting for The Godfather

(小意大利城·电影《教父》的取景地 04-08-1995)

Canal St of Chinatown (中国城运河街 04-30-2016)

Madison Sq Garden (神赐之子广场花园 06-03-2017)

Korean Way @ Ktown (韩国城·爱街)

To Koreatown @ Ktown (韩国城·通向爱城)

Authentic Bakery @ Ktown (韩国城·正宗面包店)

Crosslinks(相关博文):

A Wandering Life in Seaport NYC(浪迹纽约海港区)

A Wandering Life in Midtown NYC(浪迹纽约中城)

A Wandering Life in Rockefeller Ctr NYC(浪迹纽约黑麦田中心)

USA(出游美国)