2024-04-06 National Siamese Cat Day 
【Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Not less because in purple I descended The western day through what you called The loneliest air, not less was I myself.
What was the ointment sprinkled on my beard? What were the hymns that buzzed beside my ears? What was the sea whose tide swept through me there?
Out of my mind the golden ointment rained, And my ears made the blowing hymns they heard. I was myself the compass of that sea:
I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《搗蛋宮的茶》(1921)】 異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒) 【紅霞譯】 同樣因為我身着紫衣 西方節那天朝下穿過你所謂 最寂寥的天空，我還是自己。
噴灑在我鬍子上的脂膏是什麼？ 鳴徹在我耳邊的讚美詩是什麼？ 浪打在我身旁的大海是什麼？
我心頭湧來金色脂膏， 我耳朵發出他們聽到的讚美詩。 我本身就是那片大海的指南針：
我是我行走的世界，我之所見 所聽所感只源於我個人； 在此我發現自己更真實也更奇特。 【注】紐約有兩大街區分別得名於紅極一時的報業——時代廣場和先驅廣場，前者是陽曆年除夕新年落球(Ball Drop)的所在地，而後者則是梅西“武器”感恩節遊行收官的終點站。因為長島鐵路(LIRR)、新州通勤(NJ Transit)、美鐵(Amtrak)停靠的34街賓夕法尼亞“山林”車站近在咫尺，麥迪遜“神賜之子”廣場花園(MSG)、全美最大的梅西百貨旗艦店——梅西百貨先驅廣場和奶茶飄香的韓國城圍守一方，所以說每次出入紐約最先讓我感受都市脈搏的莫過於這片低頭不見抬頭見的彈丸之地。 Today in History(歷史上的今天): 2024: 3-Michelin-Starred Per Se, NYC(紐約城米其林三星·本身法式餐廳) 2024: Columbus Circle, NYC(紐約城·哥倫布環路) 2024: Ornamental Arts in Central Park, NYC(紐約城·中央公園大眾藝術) 2024: Trump Tower of Belle Epoque, NYC(紐約城·今非昔比的川普大廈) 2024: New York Public Library Main Branch-II(紐約公共圖書館主分館·內藏) 2024: New York Public Library Main Branch-I(紐約公共圖書館主分館·外觀) 2016: Third Marking Period of Seventh Grade(初二第三學制) 2013: Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador(厄瓜多爾十字架島) 2012: 佛州迪斯尼世界神奇王國(Walt Disney Magic Kingdom, FL) 2011: 埃及尼羅河遊輪(Cruising on the Nile, Egypt) 2011: 埃及寶石雙神廟(Twin Temples of Abu Simbel, Egypt) 2011: 埃及愛島神廟(Philae Temple—Isis, Osiris, and Horus, EGY)  Herald Sq, Named after the New York Herald Newspaper from 1893 to the 1920s
(先驅廣場·以1893年—20世間20年代間的《紐約先驅報》命名 04-06-2024)
 Macy's, the Largest Department Store in the US
(梅西商場·美國最大的百貨店)  Macy's Flower Show, Bloomed Just in Time for Spring
(梅西商場花展·恰逢春天綻放 04-06-2024) 
James Gordon Bennett Memorial @ Herald Sq Plaza (先驅廣場公園——英裔美國商人與《紐約先驅報》創始人詹姆斯·戈登·貝內特“後繼者·堡壘·祝福”紀念碑) 
Goddess of Wisdom, Minerva w/ Her Owls in Front of a Bell, Flanked by 2 Bell Ringers Mounted on a Milford Pink Granite Pedestal @ James Gordon Bennett Memorial of Herald Sq Plaza (先驅廣場公園詹姆斯·戈登·貝內特紀念碑——鍾後為智慧女神與其貓頭鷹，米爾福德“磨坊津”粉紅色花崗岩基座上的兩側是兩位敲鐘者)
 Herald Towers in Beaux Arts Crown w/ 7 Stories of Lavish Terra Cotta (1912) @ 50 W 34th St
(建於1912年的先驅公寓大廈·位於西34街50號，飾有七層奢華釉彩的學院派藝術樓頂 09-25-2022)
 Haier Bldg or Greenwich Savings Bank in Classical Revival (1767) for NRHP in 2005
(建於1767年的古典復興式海爾“齊力”大廈即後來的格林威治“綠港”儲蓄銀行·2005年被納入《美國國家史跡名錄》) 
Gotham Hall Entrance of Former Greenwich Savings Bank (原格林威治儲蓄銀行·哥譚“山羊城”大廳入口)  Gotham Hall, Former Banking Room of Former Greenwich Savings Bank
(哥譚大廳·原格林威治儲蓄銀行營業堂)
 Penn Station @ 34th Street
(34街賓夕法尼亞火車站 08-29-2012) 
MSG & Penn Station in/under Penn 2 Tower (位於麥迪遜廣場花園的賓夕法尼亞車站2號大廈) Crosslinks(相關博文): USA·New York(美國·紐約州)
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