2024-05-31 National Smile Day

【The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,

        One's tootings at the weddings of the soul

        Occur as they occur. So bluish clouds

        Occurred above the empty house and the leaves

        Of the rhododendrons rattled their gold,

        As if someone lived there. Such floods of white

        Came bursting from the clouds. So the wind

        Threw its contorted strength around the sky.

        Could you have said the bluejay suddenly

        Would swoop to earth? It is a wheel, the rays

        Around the sun. The wheel survives the myths.

        The fire eye in the clouds survives the gods.

        To think of a dove with an eye of grenadine

        And pines that are cornets, so it occurs,

        And a little island full of geese and stars:

        It may be the ignorant man, alone,

        Has any chance to mate his life with life

        That is the sensual, pearly spuse, the life

        That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

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【《魔术师的灵感》(1923)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            人的奇思妙想，人的周日沐浴，

            人在精神婚姻上的高谈阔论

            该来就来。那么蓝的云朵

            出现在空荡的房上而枝叶

            让杜鹃花挥洒金光，

            好像有人住在那儿一样。白花激流

            从云中涌出。于是风

            将其扭曲的力量抛向天空。

            你能说冠蓝鸦突然

            会俯冲到地上？辐条，光线

            围绕太阳。轮子让神话生还。

            云中火眼比众神长久。

            想到长有石榴红眼睛的鸽子

            还有发着短号声的松树，于是出现，

            遍地母鹅满目星辰的小岛：

            也许是无知者，独自一人，

            有机会让其同类与感性生活

            相结合，珍珠般伴侣，生活

            即使冷若青铜也顺畅通达。

【注】北非的摩洛哥“神地”与南欧的西班牙狗岛(Canary Is)和葡萄牙森林岛(Madeira Is)一直是我向往的去处，跟熟识40余年的学姐卫真畅叙心怀，想不到一拍即合，有钱有闲有心的闺蜜就这么任性！于是，我俩从加州和宾州分头行动，约好在意大利罗马“力量”会合，然后再乘坐“大洋·滨海”号游轮(Oceania Marina)开启23天两条航线第一段行程——北非神地与南欧狗岛奇妙之旅。

全权委托游轮操持往返机票，结果到手的不是直飞，而是从美东费城“手足之爱”取道加拿大蒙特利尔“皇山”转去罗马古城港(Civitavecchia)登船。疫情后飞机晚点是家常便饭，对之我做好拉练的心理准备。今天下午，尽管加拿大航空始发飞机早已就位多时，但因为归航机组迟到，由费城前往蒙特利尔“皇家山”的班机晚点起飞一个多钟头，好在仁义地余出将近50分钟足已让我游刃于蒙特利尔国内和国际航站楼之间，等狂奔集结到联运登机口处正巧赶上排长龙检票。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

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