2022-01-22 Spring Festival

【Esthétique du Mal·XV (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The greatest poverty is not to live

        In a physical world, to feel that one's desire

        Is too difficult to tell from despair. Perhaps,

        After death, the non-physical people, in paradise,

        Itself non-physical, may, by chance, observe

        The green corn gleaming and experience

        The minor of what we feel. The adventurer

        In humanity has not conceived of a race

        Completely physical in a physical world.

        The green corn gleams and the metaphysicals

        Lie sprawling in majors of the August heat,

        The rotund emotions, paradise unknown.

        This is the thesis scrivened in delight,

        The reverberating psalm, the right chorale.

        One might have thought of sight, but who could think

        Of what it sees, for all the ill it sees?

        Speech found the ear, for all the evil sound,

        But the dark italics it could not propound,

        And out of what one sees and hears and out

        Of what one feels, who could have thought to make

        So many selves, so many sensuous worlds,

        As if the air, the mid-day air, was swarming

        With the metaphysical changes that occur

        Merely in living as and where we live.

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【《恶之美学·之十五》(1945年)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            最大的贫穷不是生活

            在物质世界中，感觉人的欲念

            很难从绝望中分辨出来。也许，

            死了以后，非物质的人们，在天堂，

            非物质本身，可以，偶然地，观察到

            青玉米闪闪发光并去体验

            我们所感受的细微变化。人类冒险者

            从来都没想过

            在物质世界中有一个非常物质化的种族。

            青玉米闪闪发光而形而上学

            趴在八月炎热的酷暑里，

            圆润的情感，意想不到的天堂。

            命题跃然而出，

            回荡的圣歌，正确的诗篇。

            人们也许想到了视觉，但谁能想到

            它眼见的对象，因为所有目睹的邪恶？

            言语找到了耳朵，因为所有邪恶的声音，

            却成为无法提出严酷的斜体字，

            从人们的所见所闻及其

            所感，谁能想到

            这么多的自我，这么多的感性世界，

            仿佛空气，正午的天空，充斥着

            形而上学的变化

            仅仅生活在我们生活的地方。

【注】这首诗歌描述正确的赞美诗歌手。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2010 小学一年级的色彩(Colorful Life in 1st Grade)

1^st Lunar New Year of Goat @ Marie-Henry's House in USA

(海之星—统帅家·来美第一个羊年春节 02-15-1991)

Year of Dog @ Rockefeller Univ, NYC

(纽约黑麦田大学·狗年春节 02-10-1994)

Pyramid of the Moon @ Teotihuacan, Mexico

(墨西哥神诞生地·月亮金字塔 02-16-2002)

Toddler-I of the 1^st BD Celebration @ Home, NJ

(新州本家第一个生日庆典·小幼儿生 02-22-2004)

Toddler-II of 2-Yr-Old @ Year of Rooster

(鸡年两岁庆典·大幼儿生 02-20-2005)

Preschool-I for Year of Dog @ Home, PA

(宾州本家狗年春节·小幼童生 01-29-2006)

Kindergartener @ Year of Earth Ox in Aruba

(阿鲁巴土牛春节·学前班生 01-29-2009)

2^nd Grader for Year of Rabbit @ Lailai Garden, PA

(宾州来来花园中餐馆兔年春节·小学二年级生 02-03-2011)

Gala for Year of Snake @ Guanghua Chinese School, PA

(宾州光华中文学校·蛇年春晚 02-10-2013)

6^th Grader for Year of Goat @ Eastern Dragon, PA

(宾州龙园中餐馆羊年春节·初一生 02-19-2015)

9^th Grader for Year of Dog @ Golden City Chinese Restaurant, PA

(宾州金城中餐馆狗年春节·高一生 02-16-2018)

Year of Rat @ Joy Chalet, PA

(宾州聚友坊·鼠年春节 01-25-2020)

The Sophomore for Year of Bunny @ Golden City Chinese Restaurant, PA

(宾州金城中餐馆兔年春节·大二生 01-22-2023)

The Sophomore Back to School on Lunar New Year's Day

(兔年春节当天返校日·大二生 01-22-2023)

Crosslinks(相关博文):

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