2023-05-14 Mother's Day
【Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1952)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Among the more irritating minor ideas Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home To Concord, at the edge of things, was this: To think away the grass, the trees, the clouds, Not to transform them into other things, Is only what the sun does every day, Until we say to ourselves that there may be A pensive nature, a mechanical And slightly detestable operandum, free From man's ghost, larger and yet a little like, Without his literature and without his gods… No doubt we live beyond ourselves in air, In an element that does not do for us, so well, that which we do for ourselves, too big, A thing not planned for imagery or belief, Not one of the masculine myths we used to make, A transparency through which the swallow weaves, Without any form or any sense of form, What we know in what we see, what we feel in what We hear, what we are, beyond mystic disputation, In the tumult of integrations out of the sky, And what we think, a breathing like the wind, A moving part of a motion, a discovery Part of a discovery, a change part of a change, A sharing of color and being part of it. The afternoon is visibly a source, Too wide, too irised, to be more than calm, Too much like thinking to be less than thought, Obscurest parent, obscurest patriarch, A daily majesty of meditation, That comes and goes in silences of its own. We think, then as the sun shines or does not. We think as wind skitters on a pond in a field Or we put mantles on our words because The same wind, rising and rising, makes a sound Like the last muting of winter as it ends. A new scholar replacing an older one reflects A moment on this fantasia. He seeks For a human that can be accounted for. The spirit comes from the body of the world, Or so Mr. Homburg thought: the body of a world Whose blunt laws make an affectation of mind, The mannerism of nature caught in a glass And there become a spirit's mannerism, A glass aswarm with things going as far as they can. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《眺望田野看鳥群飛翔》(1952)】 異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒) 【紅霞譯】 那些甚為抓狂的輔助理念 出自高堡先生往返 和諧老家探親途中，事物的邊緣，無外乎： 要看得開草叢、樹木、雲彩， 別把它們變成另外的東西， 畢竟那是太陽的日常事務， 直到我們暗想可能有 沉思天性，死腦筋 又蠻討厭的操作，不像 人類幽靈，比較誇張但有點相似， 沒有文學且缺乏神靈…… 我們確實在空氣中超越自己， 並非自我建構的物質世界裡， 至此，我們為自己做的事，太大， 排除隱喻或信仰的東西， 不是我們過去打造的男性神話之一， 燕子編織的透明， 毫無任何形式或任何形式感， 我們的所知得於我們的所見，我們的所感得於 我們的所聞，我們的所在，超越神秘的爭論， 得於破天而降的融合體， 而我們的所想，飛快地飄動， 運作的活動部分，發現 的覺知部分，變化的更改部分， 共享色彩並成為它的其中部分。 午後顯然是源頭， 寬廣、虹彩、以至無法平靜， 很像思考卻不是思想， 最隱晦的父母，最隱晦的元老， 每天莊重沉思， 它悄悄地來又靜靜地去。 我們思考，無論太陽照耀與否。 我們思考如同風掠過田野中的池塘 或者我們繼承衣缽因為 同樣的風，越來越大，發出聲響 就像冬季結束時最後的消音。 新學者取代老專家反映出 這首幻想曲的狀態。他尋 找一位能道明白的人。 靈魂歸咎於世界的肉體， 也許高堡先生就這麼想：一個世界的肉體 其生硬的法則讓心靈矯揉造作， 被困在玻璃杯中的大自然風格 在那裡變成靈魂風格， 玻璃杯盛滿盡其所能的東西。 【注】出於好奇，今天我們把母親節午餐鎖定在北費城秘魯葡萄牙風味小吃——陽台酒館，它位於歸心谷有色金屬與鎳合金廢料工廠(Thalheimer Brothers LLC)的對面，背後不遠處便是華人社區聞名的香港超市，很多前來就餐的食客佩戴手工線帽(Chullo)、草帽(Andreana Hat)或羊駝披肩(Lliklla)，看得出附近有不少秘魯移民。這家館子主要提供油炸海鮮、肉類燒烤、海鮮雜燴(Seafood Chowder)和秘魯國粹——小鳥白蘭地(Pisco)，感覺食材一旦經過油煎烘烤亂燉，定會如法炮製出亞非拉歐味道。
Today in History(歷史上的今天): 2017：Aiden's English Writing Class(兒歌英文寫作班招生啟事)  Joe Huber's Family Farm @ Evansville, IN
(美洲土著之地州神慈城——“上帝加添·農田主”家庭農場 05-18-1991)  Cades Cove @ Great Smoky Mountains NP, TN
(蜿蜒州大煙山國家公園·杜松灣 05-31-1992)  Middleton Place (1738) of Natl Hist Landmark District in Colonial Style, SC
(南自由者州《國家古蹟》·建於1738年殖民式“居中安置地種植園”05-22-1993) 
Bas Relief above Bronze Doors of St Patrick Cathedral, NYC (紐約高貴聖徒大教堂·青銅門上方的淺浮雕 05-14-1994)  Bridalveil Fall and El Capitan @ Yosemite NP, CA
(火爐州灰熊國家公園·新娘面紗瀑布與酋長岩 05-31-1995)  American Natural History Museum, NYC
(紐約美洲自然歷史博物館 05-12-1996)  Boat House of Boldt Castle @ Thousand Islands, NY
(新野豬州千島湖·冒險城堡船庫 05-29-1997)  Washington Arch @ Washington Square, NYC
(紐約睿智農場公園·睿智農場拱門 05-02-1998)  Tower-of-Jewels of Longwood Gardens, PA
(賓州長木公園·野藍薊 05-01-1999) 
English Garden of Duke Garden, NJ (新州公爵花園·英式庭院 05-22-2000)  Reichstag Parliament Bldg in Berlin, Germany
(德國首都河道耙市·議會大廈 05-25-2001)  The New York Times Bldg in Neo-Gothic & French Renaissance (1922–1924) @ 229 West 43rd St, NYC
(紐約·建於1922—24年間的《紐約時報》大廈·新哥特與法國文藝復興式 05-04-2002) 
> 2-Mo-Old Baby @ the 1st Mother Day in Front of Thomas Kinkate's Painting, NJ (新州“雙·戰鬥領袖”繪畫前——兩個多月大的娃第一個母親節 05-11-2003)
 Toddler-I w/ Alice & Jessica, NJ
(新州·小幼兒生與繼松和奕的女兒 05-22-2004)  Toddler-II @ Singing in Sight of High Country Meadow by Thomas Kinkade Studio, PA
(賓州“雙·戰鬥領袖”工作室《高原草甸》——大幼兒生演唱 05-31-2005)  Preschool-I @ Intrepid Museum, NYC
(紐約無畏號航艦博物館·小幼童生 05-29-2006)  Preschool-II @ Colleague Leslie's Garden, PA
(賓州同事冬青園後院·大幼童生 05-13-2007) 
Pre-Kindergartener in Front of Conestoga Fall @ Ricketts Glen SP, PA (賓州強悍峽谷州立公園·學前班預科生在六匹馬車瀑布前 05-24-2008) 
Kindergartener w/ Bionicle Jetrax T6 @ Backyard, PA (賓州本家後院·學前班生手握生化戰士 05-22-2009)  1st Grade of Cosmic Team @ Olympics of Montgomery ES, PA
(賓州巨人山小學奧林匹克運動會·小學一年級宇宙隊 05-28-2010)  Brother & Siste w/ Grandma (兄妹倆與外婆 05-05-2011)
 3rd Grader @ Four Seasons by Leon Frederic @ Philadelphia Museum of Art
(費城藝術博物館獅子·和平統治者《四季》——小學三年級生 05-05-2012)  Brother & Sister w/ Music Scores @ Home, PA
(賓州本家·兄妹倆的樂譜 05-18-2013)  Brother, Sister, & Grandma @ Michie Tavern, VA
(聖潔女王州神一樣酒館·兄妹倆與外婆 05-24-2014)  6th Grader @ Art Show of North Penn School District, PA
(北賓州學區藝術展覽·初一生 05-28-2015)  7th Grader @ West End Bridge over Ohio River, the Confluence of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers in Pittsburgh, PA
(賓州溝城水流河與塌岸河交匯處的大水河上西大橋·初二生 05-29-2016)  8th Grader @ Château Frontenac in Quebec, Canada
(加拿大海峽市新法國城堡酒店·初三生 05-28-2017)  9th Grader @ AP Chinese of Guanghua Chinese School, PA
(賓州光華中文學校中文大學預科班·高一生 05-06-2018) 
10th Grader @ Lailai Garden, PA
(賓州來來花園酒家·高二生 05-04-2019)
 Trail @ Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens, PA
(賓州小神慈植物園·步道 02-20-2020)  Order of Wrist Corsage & Boutonniere for Prom @ A Flower Affair, PA
(賓州花事商店·為高中畢業舞會訂購手腕花環和胸花 05-22-2021)  Freshman @ 1 University Pl (1930), NYC
(紐約1930年建造的大學廣場1號大廈·大學一年級新生 05-16-2022)  Mother's Day @ El Balconcito in North Philadelphia
(北費城陽台酒館·母親節 05-14-2023)
 Peruvian Cuisine @ El Balconcito in North Philadelphia
(北費城陽台酒館·秘魯風味 05-14-2023) Crosslink(相關博文):
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