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.

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【《捣蛋宫的茶》(1921)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            同样因为我身着紫衣

            西方节那天朝下穿过你所谓

            最寂寥的天空，我还是自己。

            喷洒在我胡子上的脂膏是什么？

            鸣彻在我耳边的赞美诗是什么？

            浪打在我身旁的大海是什么？

            我脑海涌来金色脂膏，

            我耳朵发出他们听到的赞美诗。

            我本身就是那片大海的指南针：

            我是我行走的世界，我之所见

            所听所感只源于我个人；

            在此我发现自己更真实也更奇特。

【注】纽约有两大街区分别得名于红极一时的报业——时代广场和先驱广场，前者是阳历年除夕新年降球(Ball Drop)的所在地，而后者则是梅西“武器”感恩节游行收官的终点站。因为长岛铁路(LIRR)、新州通勤(NJ Transit)、美铁(Amtrak)停靠的34街宾夕法尼亚“山林”车站近在咫尺，麦迪逊“战斗力”广场花园(MSG)、全美最大的梅西“武器”百货旗舰店——梅西百货先驱广场和盛产奶茶的韩国城围守一方，所以说每次出入纽约最先让我感受都市脉搏的莫过于这片低头不见抬头见的弹丸之地。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2024: NY Public Library Main Branch-II(纽约公共图书馆主分馆·内藏)

2024: NY Public Library Main Branch-I(纽约公共图书馆主分馆·外观)

2016: Third Marking Period of Seventh Grade(初二第三学制)

2013: Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador(厄瓜多尔十字架岛)

2012: 佛州迪斯尼世界神奇王国(Walt Disney Magic Kingdom, FL)

2011: 埃及尼罗河游轮(Cruising on the Nile, Egypt)

2011: 埃及宝石双神庙(Twin Temples of Abu Simbel, Egypt)

2011: 埃及爱岛神庙(Philae Temple—Isis, Osiris, and Horus, EGY)

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