2022-12-02 World Futures Day

【Esthétique du Mal·V (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Softly let all true sympathizers come,

        Without the inventions of sorrow or the sob

        Beyond invention. Within what we permit,

        Within the actual, the warm, the near,

        So great a unity, that it is bliss,

        Ties us to those we love. For this familiar,

        This brother even in the father's eye,

        This brother half-spoken in the mother's throat

        And these regalia, these things disclosed,

        These nebulous brilliancies in the smallest look

        Of the being's deepest darling, we forego

        Lament, willingly forfeit the ai-ai

        Of parades in the obscurer selvages.

        Be near me, come closer, touch my hand, phrases

        Compounded of dear relation, spoken twice,

        Once by the lips, once by the services

        Of central sense, these minutiae mean more

        Than clouds, benevolences, distant heads.

        These are within what we permit, in-bar

        Exquisite in poverty against the suns

        Of ex-bar, in-bar retaining attributes

        With which we vested, once, the golden forms

        And the damasked memory of the golden forms

        And ex-bar's flower and fire of the festivals

        Of the damased memory of the golden forms,

        Before we were wholly human and knew ourselves.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《恶之美学·之五》(1945年)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            轻柔地让所有真正的同情者一起，

            不再创造悲伤或哭泣

            超越创造。在我们允许的范围内，

            实在、温暖、亲近，

            伟大的凝聚力带来团结的幸福，

            我们与所爱的人紧密相连。有了这份相知，

            这位老兄彰显父亲的眼神，

            这名小弟展示母亲谈吐的含蓄

            而这些标帜，这些显露的事物，

            这些星云般光彩涌入生命挚友

            最细微的视线，我们放弃

            哀叹，心甘情愿地摆脱

            探索更加隐蔽边缘的焦虑。

            跟紧我，再靠近点，摸着我的手，言语

            道出亲密关系，说过两遍，

            一遍口头表达，一遍送达

            中枢感觉，这些细节胜过

            云彩、仁慈、遥远的思想。

            这些都在我们允许的范围内，内在自我

            超凡脱俗而外部世界

            光鲜亮丽，并且保留现实属性

            曾经，我们赋予的黄金形式

            和黄金形式的灰红色记忆

            还有外部世界庆典的花火

            黄金形式的灰红色记忆，

            在我们完全成为人类并了解自己之前。

【注】这首诗歌描述真正的同情者——一群亲戚。

素不相识的我们从陌生、遥远的异象世界走过来同堂辞岁迎新，现实生活里这种偶遇的幸福离不开温暖的情愫和亲密的接触，因而将大家凝聚在一起并赋予我们人生价值，就像诗中展示的美学愿景，亲情如此，友情亦是。

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