2021-11-14 National Pickle Day

【The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm (1946)】 

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       The house was quiet and the world was calm.

       The reader became the book; and summer night

       Was like the conscious being of the book.

       The house was quiet and the world was calm.

       The words were spoken as if there was no book,

       Except that the reader leaned above the page,

       Wanted to lean, wanted much most to be

       The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom

       The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

       The house was quiet because it had to be.

        The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:

        The access of perfection to the page.

        And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,

        In which there is no other meaning, itself

        Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself

        Is the reader leaning late and reading there.

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【《居室宁静而世事祥和》(1946年)】

异乡人•史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

             居室宁静而世事祥和，

             读者变成了书本；夏夜 

             就像富有灵性的书本，

             居室宁静而世事祥和。 

             言语好像不是发自书本， 

             而是看书的读者。

             他阅读，渴望成为学者，

             于己，书本才是真切的存在。

             夏夜就像完美的思想， 

             居室宁静，因为本该如此。 

             宁静是书本的一部分，读者思想的一部分， 

             通向书本的完美途径。

             世事祥和， 真切是其所在，

             其它无关紧要，实质上

             是宁静，是夏夜，归根结底

             是夜深看书的读者。

【注】廊桥又称“吻桥”，在美国多建于1826—1875年间，并涂以经济实惠且暖调沉稳的红漆，进而起到保护桥身的效用。

Cabin Run Covered Bridge (木屋溪廊桥 11-14-2021)

Cabin Run Covered Bridge (木屋溪廊桥 11-14-2021)

Cabin Run Covered Bridge (木屋溪廊桥)

Cabin Run (木屋溪)

Tohickon Creek (浮木溪 11-14-2021)

Tohickon Valley Park (浮木溪谷公园)

Moods Covered Bridge (氛围廊桥)

Moods Covered Bridge over East Branch Perkiomen Creek

(蔓越莓东溪上氛围廊桥)

Moods Covered Bridge Soccer Field

(氛围廊桥足球场 11-14-2021)

Erwinna Covered Bridge (1871) Spun Swamp Creek in a Lattice-type Design, Bucks County's Shortest Covered Bridge Listed in National Register of Historic Places

(《国家史迹名录·海友廊桥》——建于1871年，跨越沼泽溪，采用格子型设计，为雄鹿郡最短的廊桥)

Erwinna Covered Bridge in 56-ft/17-m Long & 15-ft/4.6-m Wide

(海友廊桥·56英尺/17米长、15英尺/4.6米宽)

Pine Valley Covered Bridge (松谷廊桥)

Pine Valley Covered Bridge over Pine Run

(松溪上松谷廊桥 11-14-2021)

Pine Valley Park (松谷公园 11-14-2021)

Bird Feeders @ Pine Valley Park (松谷公园·喂鸟篷)

Windybush Hay Farms (风灌丛干草农场)

Windybush Hay Farms (风灌丛干草农场)

New Britain Baptist Church (新不列颠浸信会)

Curtis Arboretum (雅观植物园)

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