2022-08-24

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·II (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window

        Did not desire that feathery argentines

        Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds

        Should foam, be foamy waves, should move like them,

        Nor that the sexual blossoms should repose

        Without their fierce addictions, nor that the heat

        Of summer, growing fragrant in the night,

        Should strengthen her abortive dreams and take

        In sleep its natural form. It was enough

        For her that she remembered: the argentines

        Of spring come to their places in the grape leaves

        To cool their ruddy pulses; the frothy clouds

        Are nothing but frothy clouds; the frothy blooms

        Waste without puberty; and afterward,

        When the harmonious heat of August pines

        Enters the room, it drowses and is the night.

        It was enough for her that she remembered.

        The blue woman looked and from her window named

        The corals of the dogwood, cold and clear,

        Cold, coldly delineating, being real,

        Clear and, except for the eye, without intrusion.

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【《最高虚构笔记——它必须快乐·之二》(1942年)】

威尔士人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            蓝色女子，波浪卷打上发胶，窗前

            并非指望羽毛状的银币

            纯灰色，既不渴求浮云

            起泡，成为白沫波浪，任其漂移，

            又不期待性感之花停止绽放

            无需嗜爱成瘾，也不向往炎热

            夏日，夜晚弥漫着香气，

            促使她的梦想破灭而依旧保持

            睡眠状态。别无所求

            只要她记住：春天的

            银币来到葡萄园自己的地方

            平息红润的脉搏；泡沫云

            仅是浮云；泡沫花

            无需荒度青春；从此过后，

            当八月松林的煦暖

            进入房间，正是睡意朦胧夜幕降临。

            只要她记住就别无所求。

            蓝色女人从窗前看到了所谓

            山茱萸的珊瑚，凉爽地、

            完全地、冷漠描画地、真实地、

            清晰地，除了眼光，毫无接触。

【注】纽约的魅力同时绽现在它的绰号上：

1. 大苹果(The Big Apple)

2. 不夜城(The City That Never Sleeps)

3. 帝国城和帝国州(The Empire City & Empire State)

4. 山羊之家或傻子村(Gotham)

5. 灯笼裤(Knickerbocker)

6. 大熔炉(The Melting Pot)

7. 新河畔(New Amsterdam)

8. 多山(Manhattan)

9. 摩天楼之城(The City of Skyscrapers)

10. 大都会(The Metropolis)

11. 世界金融中心(The Financial Hub)

12. 美国城市(America's City）

13. 全球最大的城市操场(World's Biggest Urban Playground)

以下街拍主要集中在纽约中下城居民区。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2022: An Upscale Mall @ Hudson Yards, NYC(纽约勇帅之子园区高档商场)

2022: The Edge, Highest Sky Deck in NYC(纽约边沿·西半球最高的空中甲板)

2022: The Vessel & Hudson Yards, NYC(纽约容器与勇帅之子园区)

2022: Sophomore Yr @ Union Square of NYC(大二生活·纽约联合广场)

2022: An Euphoric Rush into Sophomore(欣快冲入大学二年级)

2014: GHCS Camp─Spoons Card Game(光华夏令营《勺子》扑克游戏)

Crosslinks(相关博文):

A Life in NYC-2(浪迹纽约之二)

A Life in NYC-1(浪迹纽约之一)

USA(出游美国)