2022-09-25 World Pharmacist Day

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

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         When at long midnight the Canon came to sleep

         And normal things had yawned themselves away,

         The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,

         Beyond which fact could not progress as fact.

         Thereon the learning of the man conceived

         Once more night's pale illuminations, gold

         Beneath, far underneath, the surface of

         His eye and audible in the mountain of

         His ear, the very material of his mind.

         So that he was the ascending wings he saw

         And moved on them in orbits' outer stars

         Descending to the children's bed, on which

         They lay. Forth then with huge pathetic force

         Straight to the utmost crown of night he flew.

         The nothingness was a nakedness, a point

         Beyond which thought could not progress as thought.

         He had to choose. But it was not a choice

         Between excluding things. It was not a choice

         Between, but of. He chose to include the things

         That in each other are included, the whole,

         The complicate, the amassing harmony.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《最高虚构笔记——它必须快乐·之六》(1942年)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            当漫长午夜牧师酣然入睡

            而正常的事情都趋于单调乏味，

            虚无赤裸无遮，巅峰境界，

            超出不能变成事实的事实。

            于是，君子之学孕育出

            另一个夜晚苍白的光芒，金子

            在下，极深的地方，眼球的

            外表和耳岩锥的

            听觉，驾驭心灵之物。

            结果他亲眼目睹自身飞翔的翅膀

            并沿着太空行星运行的轨道遨游

            下凡到孩子们床前，娃儿

            就寝的地方。之后心怀巨大的悲恸

            直接飞到黑夜极冠的尽头。

            虚无赤裸无遮，巅峰境界

            超出不能变成思想的思想。

            他不得不做出选择。但这个选择并非

            排查事物。不是在于

            比较权衡，而是取舍决定。他选择含有

            彼此相互关联的东西，兼及整体性、

            复杂性、聚结性的和谐。

【注】1697年，在荷兰人把纽约当作所谓的“新河岸”(New Amsterdam)贸易站70多年后，三一教堂赢得英格兰国王威廉(意指“坚定保护者”)三世的皇家特许状，从那时起便成为纽约不可分割的一部分。如今，三一教堂和圣保罗教区教堂(St. Paul's Chapel，意指“卑微圣徒”)堪称华尔街三一教堂圣公会社区的基石。

1976年，三一教堂和墓地被纳入《美国国家历史遗迹名录》。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2022: A Wandering Life in Metropolitan NYC-4(浪迹纽约大都会之四)

2022: Ladies' Mile Historic District, NYC(纽约仕女一英里历史街区)

2022: Madison Sq & Flatiron District, NYC(纽约麦迪逊广场与熨斗区)

2022: WFC & North Cove Marina, NYC(纽约世界金融中心与北湾码头)

2022: WTC Oculus & Memorial Site, NYC(纽约“大眼睛”车站与世贸中心纪念地)

2022: Headquarters of the United Nations, NYC(纽约联合国总部)

2022: Federal Hall NM—US Subtreasury, NYC(纽约联邦大厅·国库分部)

2022: Pat the Charging Bull for Good Luck, NYC(纽约华尔街金融牛)

2022: The Battery & Clinton Castle NM, NYC(纽约炮台地头堡国家纪念地)

One WTC @ & Colonial-era Episcopal St. Paul's Chaple w/ a Pew where George Washington Worshiped 

(世贸中心大厦1号与殖民时期卑微圣公会小教堂·内有“农夫·睿智农家”总统礼拜的长椅)

St. Paul's Chapel w/ Soaring Gothic Revival Spire Surmounted by a Gilded Cross

(卑微圣徒小教堂·高耸入云的哥特式复兴尖顶，上面矗立着镀金的十字架)

Trinity Church in Gothic Revival (1846) @ 75 Broadway

(位于绅士街75号、1846年建造的三一教堂·哥特式复兴风格)

Trinity Church Vied from Wall St Photographed in 1996

(从华尔街观望三一教堂·摄于1996年)

Trinity Church from Wall St (华尔街三一教堂 09-04-1996)

Trinity Church Seen from Broadway

(从绅士街近观三一教堂)

The Nave of Trinity Church (三一教堂·主堂)

Sanctuary of Trinity Church (三一教堂·圣所)

Altar & Screen of the 12 Apostles @ Trinity Church 

(三一教堂·祭坛和十二使徒屏风)

The Apse of Trinity Church (三一教堂·后堂)

Chapel of All Saints @ Trinity Church (三一教堂·诸圣堂)

Chapel of All Saints in a Ceiling of Dark Carved Oak w/ Carved Wall Posts Resting on Stone Brackets @ of Trinity Church

(三一教堂诸圣堂·深色橡木雕天花板，石支架上带有石刻墙柱)

All Saints' Chapel on the Bases of the Wall Posts w/ Statues of 8 Representative Saints from History @ Trinity Church

(三一教堂诸圣堂·墙柱底座历史上八位代表性圣人的雕像)

Over 2,000 Symbols & Images in Terra Cotta Tiles, Paintings, & Sculptures @  Representing Christianity @ Trinity Church

(三一教堂·2,000多个采用赤土砖、绘画和雕塑创作的图符和圣像来代表基督教)

Plaque @ Trinity Church (三一教堂·标牌)

Trinity Church w/ Gravestones @ Broadway & Wall St

(绅士街与华尔街一侧的三一教堂·墓碑)

North Churchyard (北墓地)

South Churchyard (南墓地 04-30-2016)

Alexander Hamilton @ Trinity Churchyard

(三一教堂墓地——开国元勋“人类捍卫者·平丘顶”墓碑)

John Watts @ Trinity Churchyard

(三一教堂墓地——律师与众议员“神慈·军官”墓碑)

St. Paul's Chapel in Georgian (1766)

(建于1766年的卑微圣徒小教堂·农夫王朝风格)

Interior of St. Paul's Chapel

(卑微圣徒小教堂·内景)

Pipe Organ @ St. Paul's Chapel in 1805

(卑微圣徒小教堂·造于1805年的管风琴)

A 9/11 Exhibit of "Healing Hearts and Minds" @ St. Paul's Chapel

(卑微圣徒小教堂9-11展览·“治愈心灵”)

St. Paul's Chapel, the Oldest Surviving Church Bldg in NYC Seen from Church St

(教堂街一侧的卑微圣徒小教堂·纽约现存最古老的教堂建筑)

West Chapelyard of St. Pauls Chapel by WTC Oculus

(卑微圣徒小教堂·世贸中心“大眼睛”车站旁墓地西侧)

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