2022-11-24 Thanksgiving Day

【Esthétique du Mal·III (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        His firm stanzas hang like hives in hell

        Or what hell was, since now both heaven and hell

        Are one, and here, O terra infidel.

        The fault lies with an over-human god,

        Who by sympathy has made himself a man

        And is not to be distinguished, when we cry

        Because we suffer, our oldest parent, peer

        Of the populace of the heart, the reddest lord,

        Who has gone before us in experience.

        If only he would not pity us so much,

        Weaken our fate, relieve us of woe both great

        And small, a constant fellow of destiny,

        A too, too human god, self-pity's kin

        And uncourageous genesis…It seems

        As if the health of the world might be enough.

        It seems as if the honey of common summer

        Might be enough, as if the golden combs

        Were part of a sustenance itself enough,

        As if hell, so modified, had disappeared,

        As if pain, no longer satanic mimicry,

        Could be borne, as if we were sure to find our way.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《恶之美学·之三》(1945年)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            他那铿锵的诗节如同地狱里悬挂的蜂巢

            即所谓的地狱蜂巢，既然如今天堂与地狱

            合二为一，那么地狱就是天堂。

            错误取决超越人类的上帝，

            由于同情心而让自己变成人

            并与之毫无区别，我们流泪

            因为遭受痛苦，我们的祖先、同龄

            民众心中，救世主，

            在经验上走在我们前面。

            要是他没怜悯我们多好，

            削弱我们的机缘，减轻我们大大

            小小的痛苦，命运的永恒伙伴，

            太甚、太过人性的上帝，自怜的同类

            胆小的起源……看起来

            好像世界足够健康。

            看起来好像日常的夏季蜂蜜

            足够充裕，好像金簪

            足够维系生活所需，

            好像地狱，经过调和，早已消失，

            好像痛苦，不再是撒旦的假冒，

            能够承受，好像我们定会找到自己的出路。

【注】这首诗歌描述但丁式或弥尔顿式诗人的蜂巢悬在地狱中。

我家位于大费城外域地区，东方风味的餐饮店铺本来就屈指可数，经过2020—2022年新肺疫情的洗礼，中餐馆更是少而又少；幸运地，陪伴我们走过将近十个春秋的蜀苑则经得起岁月考验和时间磨练，不愧为其中的佼佼者，正可谓“千淘万漉虽辛苦，吹尽狂沙始到金”。今天时逢感恩节，我们感恩彼此遇见，我们感恩相互拥有。

你相信特异致动(Psycho-Kinesis)吗？但我喜欢田老板送来了幸运饼干——心灵鸡汤：毅力既是思想的统帅，又是意志的铠甲，还是理性的堡垒。

Fortitude is the marshall of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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