2023-01-08 National English Toffee Day
【Esthétique du Mal·XII (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He disposes the world in categories, thus: The peopled and the unpeopled. In both, he is Alone. But in the peopled world, there is, Besides the people, his knowledge of them. In The unpeopled, there is his knowledge of himself. Which is more desperate in the moments when The will demands that what he thinks be true? Is it himself in them that he knows or they In him? If it is himself in them, they have No secret from him. If it is they in him, He has no secret from them. This knowledge Of them and of himself destroys both worlds, Except when he escapes from it. To be Alone is not to know them or himself. This creates a third world without knowledge, In which no one peers, in which the will makes no Demands. It accepts whatever is as true, Including pain, which, otherwise, is false. In the third world, then, there is no pain. Yes, but What lover has one in such rocks, what woman, However known, at the centre of the heart? —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《恶之美学·之十二》(1945年)】 异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒) 【红霞译】 他将世界分类,像这样: 社会与自我。从两方面来看,他都是 孤独的。但在有人类的世界,存在着, 除人而外,他对社会的认知。在 没有人类的世界,存在着他对自我的认知。 哪个更加绝望每当 意志要求他只想真理的时候? 究竟他通过自己来了解社会还是社会 通过他?如果自己在人类的世界,社会 对他没有秘密。如果社会在他自己的范畴, 他对人类的世界没有秘密。这种 涵盖社会和自我的认知摧毁了两个世界, 除非他逃避认知。想要 孤独就是不认知社会或自我。 由此创造了没有认知的第三世界, 无人与之同行,意志不再 需要。意志接受任何真实的东西, 包括痛苦,否则便会出错。 因此在第三世界,没有痛苦。的确,但是 哪种情人身陷困境,哪个女人, 不管怎么称呼,进入无上觉悟的境界? 【注】这首诗歌描述分类辩证者(Categorical Dialectician)。 这让我联想起中国现代文学家林语堂(1895生—1976卒)针对儒、道两个极端之间有条不紊的生活所提出的独到见解,他认为最理想的的人生哲学应该是两家中庸化“城中隐士”:名字半隐半显,生活逍遥自在,在没有完全无忧无虑的时候,精神总是开心快乐的。
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