2023-09-16 National Dance Day

【Two Letters—A Letter From (1954)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Even if there had been a crescent moon

    On every cloud-tip over the heavens,

    Drenching the evening with crystals' light,

    One would have wanted more—more—more—

    Some true interior to which to return,

    A home against one's self, a darkness,

    An ease in which to live a moment's life,

    The moment of life's love and fortune,

    Free from everything else, free above all from thought.

    It would have been like lighting a candle,

    Like leaning on the table, shading one's eyes,

    And hearing a tale one wanted intensely to hear,

    As if we were all seated together again

    And one of us spoke and all of us believed

    What we heard and the light, though little, was enough.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《兩封信·來函》(1954)】

華萊士·史蒂文斯“異鄉人·花環”(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            即使一輪新月

            掛到天空的每片雲朵，

            晶瑩的光芒浸透夜晚，

            人們依舊渴望更多——更多——更多——

            一些回歸真實的內在，

            一處襯托自我的家園，一片深沉，

            一種活在當下的閒適，

            此時此刻緣定之愛，

            超脫其它，率先從思想中釋放出來。

            就像點燃蠟燭，

            亦或趴在桌上，眯起眼睛，

            聽着熱切期盼的故事，

            仿佛我們重又坐在一塊

            自己人一番話喚起

            大家的共鳴而燭光，雖然微弱，卻足夠明亮。

【注】九月初勞工節長周末，幾乎在紐約城過了整個大二暑假的紐約仔不想往返折騰，而我剛度假歸來也需要恢復元氣，直到第三個星期六才去紐約共慶大三開學。事先我刻意託付紐約仔找好館子搓頓午餐，他順杆子往下溜，附近恰好有家卡根“華花”(Cagen)日式料理，我接過話把誇下海口，紐約仔做東老媽買單！

晌午時分，我大汗淋漓趕到紐約仔已入住一個月的宿舍新居，兩位剛起床的同年級室友迎面打過招呼，還有兩位仍在補覺，借着大家寒暄的功夫，我心裡頓覺涼快了許多。

都市的正餐堂吃大多要挨到黃昏，紐約仔嫌晚懶得預約，因此我們臨時改去位於東村的金滿庭粵菜館。誰都知道在城裡吃中餐，手頭最好備點真金實銀，而在城外卻不盡然，現鈔紙幣幾乎被信用卡流動支付所取締，我今早摸黑出門忘掉這岔子事也是無心之失，偶然間反倒成就了紐約仔坐莊請客，廿年來頭一遭！

Astor Place @ 445 Lafayette St, a “Sculpture for Living” 

(拉斐特“毛櫸樹林”街445號的阿斯特“蒼鷹”廣場大廈·“生活雕塑”09-16-2023)

15^th Grader (Junior) on 2^nd Ave @ 4^th St

(第二大道與四街交道口·大三生 09-16-2023)

15^th Grader (Junior) @ Dim Sum Palace

(金滿庭粵菜館·大三生 09-16-2023)

Middle Collegiate Church, a United Church of Christ Church as "New York's Liberty Bell" in the Late 19^th-Century Gothic Revival 

(中間學院歸正教會·被譽為“紐約的自由鐘”、19世紀晚期哥特復興時期的聯合基督教會教堂)

Church of the Transfiguration for Holy Cucumber Vine (1848) in the Early English Neo-Gothic Style

(“聖黃瓜藤”的聖顯容教堂·早期英國新哥特式風格，成立於1848年)

The Little Church Around the Corner @ Church of the Transfiguration

(聖公會顯聖容教堂·拐角小教堂 09-16-2023)

East End of the Courtyard @ Church of the Transfiguration

(聖公會顯聖容教堂·庭院東頭)

Grace Church w/ Marble Steeple in Gothic Revival (1883

(恩寵教堂·建於1883年、哥特式復興風格)

Nave of Grace Church in the Mid-19^th-Century French Gothic Revival

 (格雷斯“恩典”教堂·19世紀中葉法國哥特復興式 09-16-2023)

Stout NYC @ 133 W 33^rd St, Upbeat Sports Bar 

(西33街133號紐約斯托特“勇敢”·熱鬧的體育酒吧 09-16-2023)

Strand Bookstore in 18 Miles Of Books @ 828 Broadway, the Undisputed King of the City's Independent Bookstores

(百老匯828號海濱書店“書陳18里/29公里”·無可爭議的紐約獨立書店之王)

Money Never Sleeps by Warren Buffett: If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

(沃倫·巴菲特“守園者·風箱”《金錢永不眠》：如果你沒法在睡覺時賺錢，那麼你得勞作一輩子。)

East End Gateway @ Penn Station

(賓夕法尼亞“山林”交通總站·東邊進出口)

NJ Transit Waiting Area of Penn Station @ 8:00 PM

(賓夕法尼亞交通總站晚上八點鐘·新澤西“草”州通勤火車候車室)

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