2023-07-31 National Avocado Day

【Of Modern Poetry (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The poem of the mind in the act of finding

        What will suffice. It has not always had

        To find: the scene was set; it repeated what

        Was in the script.

        Then the theatre was changed

        To something else. Its past was a souvenir.

        It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.

        It has to face the men of the time and to meet

        The women of the time. It has to think about war

        And it has to find what will suffice. It has

        To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage

        And, like an insatiable actor, slowly and

        With meditation, speak words that in the ear,

        In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat,

        Exactly, that which it wants to hear, at the sound

        Of which, an invisible audience listens,

        Not to the play, but to itself, expressed

        In an emotion as of two people, as of two

        Emotions becoming one. The actor is

        A metaphysician in the dark, twanging

        An instrument, twanging a wiry string that gives

        Sounds passing through sudden rightnesses, wholly

        Containing the mind, below which it cannot descend,

        Beyond which it has no will to rise.

        It must

        Be the finding of a satisfaction, and may

        Be of a man skating, a woman dancing, a woman

        Combing. The poem of the act of the mind.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《論現代詩歌》(1942)】

華萊士·史蒂文斯“異鄉人·花環”(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            心靈的詩追求

            滿足感。並非總能

            找到：場景就位；再現

            劇本中的內容。

            隨後劇場又

            發生變遷。過去的一切都成為紀念。

            力求生存，就得學習當地談吐。

            力求面對時代男性並接觸

            當今女性。力求思考衝突

            並追求心靈上的滿足感。力求

            構築嶄新的舞台。力求在那個舞台上

            甚至，像貪念的演員那樣，慢慢

            沉吟着，附耳低語，

            對着心靈最微妙的耳朵，不斷重複，

            確切地說，心靈想聽到的

            聲音，隱形觀眾所聽到的，

            不是戲劇，而是自身，表達

            雙方彼此獨立的情感，兩個

            合而為一的情感。演員是

            黑暗中的玄學家，敲擊

            樂器，撥動金絲弦發出的

            聲音突然穿透正確，完全

            蘊含心靈，既不能低於它，

            也無意超越它。

            必須

            找到滿足感，不妨

            是男人溜冰，女人跳舞，女人

            梳理。追求心靈的詩。

【注】連續苦戰了六個星期(6/19—7/28)，室內粉刷終於告罄。據油漆工說，18種房間顏料備足了60加侖(其中房頂用了25加侖)，聽來令人心悸。自打19年前搬進來以後，這還是破天荒頭一次大動干戈，爆皮露釘裂縫塗鴉水漬老化變色的牆板肯定吃油。

接下來從今天周一開始，全樓上下置換地毯，基於視覺效果，我沒有選用容易清理但遮灰性極差(權當包容性弱)的地板，為的是平常的日子裡不想讓自己跟浮塵較勁，尤其在光天化日之下。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2017: Capitol Debate Camp Day-2(國會辯論夏令營第二天)

2015: 76ers Overnight Camp─Memory(七六人隊籃球寄宿營─體會)

2014: YMCA Camp─Renaissance Fair(基督教青年會營─文藝復興節)

2013: 從俄國浪漫到革命(From Russian Romance to Revolution)

Horse Park @ Lexington, KY

(草地州新法鎮·賽馬公園 07-06-1991)

Frozen Niagara Geologic Formations of Mammoth Cave NP, KY

(草地州猛獁洞國家公園·冰凍的水道地質構造 07-04-1992)

Isle of Palms Beach, SC

(南自由者州棕櫚島海灘 07-05-1993)

Montauk Lighthouse, NY

(紐約州“堡壘之國”航標燈 07-05-1994)

Crossbedding of the Rock Formations 150 Million Yr Ago in Zion NP, UT

(山里人州聖所國家公園·1.5 億年前岩石交錯層理 06-09-1995)

Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain

(西班牙馬德里“生命之水”·皇宮 06-08-1996)

Bellevue Ave in Newport, RI

(紅島州新港市·美景大道 07-04-1997)

Great Buddha Hall @ Chuang Yen Buddhist Monastery, NY

(紐約州莊嚴佛教寺·大佛殿 07-18-1998)

Mohonk Mtn House in a Turreted 7-Story Victorian Character, NY

(紐約州立天磐石山荘·帶有角塔的七層勝利女王式建築 07-31-1999)

Capilano Suspension Bridge Park in Vancouver, Canada

(加拿大奶溫哥華“牛涉河”·美河吊橋公園 07-04-2000)

New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning

(新州彩票熱氣球節 07-28-2001)

College Fjord of Prince William Sound, AK

(大地州勇將王子海峽學院峽灣 07-05-2002)

> 5-Mo Lad @ Water Lilies, Harmony in Blue (1917) by Claude Monet

(意志力強·莫奈“被聽到”1917年創作的《睡蓮·藍色和諧》——五月大的兒歌 07-28-2003)

Toddler-I @ Little Gymnastics, PA

(賓州小小體操館·小幼兒生 07-26-2004)

Toddler-II @ Swann Memorial Fountain (Fountain of the Three Rivers) on Logan Sq & City Hall Tower, Philadelphia

(費城空心廣場和市政廳塔附近的天鵝紀念噴泉“三河噴泉”·大幼兒生 07-24-2005)

Preschool-I @ My Gym, PA

(賓州我的體操館·小幼童生 07-29-2006)

Preschool-II @ the Merry Miller of Story BookLand, NJ

(新州故事書遊樂園《快樂磨坊主》·大幼童生 07-21-2007)

Pre-Kindergartener @ Iron Pigs @ Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, PA

(賓州英俊城可口可樂公園鐵豬棒球比賽·學前班預科生 07-24-2008)

Kindergartener @ Cambell Agencies of Insurance, PA

(賓州公平場保險代理公司·學前班生 07-26-2009)

1^st Grader @ Veggie Patch of Backyard, PA

(賓州本家後院菜地·小學一年級生 07-31-2010)

2^nd Grade @ A Whole New World Finale of Aladdin, PA

(賓州百老匯《阿拉丁“信仰高貴”·全新世界》——小學二年級 07-22-2011)

3^rd Grader @ Pick-a-Little of Music Man Jr, PA

(賓州百老匯《小音樂人·都市欲望》——小學三年級生 07-27-2012)

4^th Grader w/ Cousin @ Life is a holiday of Thoroughly Modern Millie, PA

(賓州百老匯《仙樂美人·人生就是假期》——小學四年級生與表妹 07-25-2013)

5^th Grader w/ Cousin @ Cubism the Art of Pablo Picasso

(小·喜鵲《立體派》——小學五年級生與表妹 07-27-2014)

6^th Grader as TA @ Summer Camp of Guanghua Chines School (GHCS), PA

 (賓州光華中文學校夏令營助教·初一生 07-13-2015)

7^th Grader @ Solstice Axis of Stonehenge, England

(英格蘭“天使之地”巨石陣的至日軸·初二生 07-04-2016)

8^th Grader @ Historic Ctr of Cesky Krumlov near Vltava River, Czech

 (捷克激流河畔蜿蜒草甸城歷史中心·初三生 07-07-2017)

9^th Grader @ Gjirokastër Fortress, Albania

(阿爾巴尼亞銀堡要塞·高一生 07-14-2018)

10^th Grader @ Viewing Fish @ Flower Pond in Hangzhou, China

(中國杭州西湖花港觀魚·高二生 07-22-2019)

Pergola of Stoneleigh, PA

(賓州石頭莊園·蔓藤架 07-05-2020)

The Freshman @ Apple Store of Willow Grove, PA 

(賓州柳樹林鎮蘋果店·大一生 07-30-2021)

Façade of Ambler Theater (1928), PA

(賓州建於1928年的漫步者城劇院正面 07-23-2022)

Carpet Replacement of Master Bedroom @ Home, PA

(賓州本家·更新地毯前搬空的主臥 07-31-2023)

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Home Remediation—Stucco Replacement(灰泥外牆更新修復工程)

House Interior Painting(粉刷房子)

萬花筒(Kaleidoscope)