2024-04-06 National Student-Athlete Day

【The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The time of year has grown indifferent.

        Mildew of summer and the deepening snow

        Are both alike in the routine I know:

        I am too dumbly in my being pent.

        The wind attendant on the solstices

        Blows on the shutters of the metropoles,

        Stirring no poet in his sleep, and tolls

        The grand ideas of the villages.

        The malady of the quotidian ...

        Perhaps if summer ever came to rest

        And lengthened, deepened, comforted, caressed

        Through days like oceans in obsidian

        Horizons, full of night's midsummer blaze;

        Perhaps, if winter once could penetrate

        Through all its purples to the final slate,

        Persisting bleakly in an icy haze;

        One might in turn become less diffident,

        Out of such mildew plucking neater mould

        And spouting new orations of the cold.

        One might. One might. But time will not relent.

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【《喉嚨不好的人》(1921)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            歲月已淡。

            夏天的發霉和變厚的積雪

            在我所知的日常中相差無幾：

            我被壓抑得愚不可及。

            隨夏至而來的風，

            吹着大都市的百葉窗，

            沒有詩人夢中醒來，喚起

            村莊的宏偉構想。

            日常生活中的弊害……

            也許，如果夏天停住

            並延長、深化、告慰、愛撫

            日子像黑曜石的

            海平面，徹夜的仲夏火焰；

            也許，如果冬天一旦穿透

            全部的紫色直到最終的暗藍灰色，

            在冰冷的陰霾中無望地堅持；

            人可能相應地變得不那麼膽怯，

            從如此菌群里拔出較為整潔的霉孢

            並高談闊論寒冷天氣。

            人會的。人會的。但時間不動憐憫之心。

【注】1983年落成的川普大廈曾經是“大首領·小號商”(Donald Trump)房地產帝國皇冠上閃耀的明珠，如今卻因諸多原因導致公寓銷售下降而成為曼哈頓“弓島”最不受歡迎的豪華房產之一。自2021年起，川普集團失去其擁有權，現已轉讓給通用汽車金融服務公司(General Motors Acceptance Corporation or GMAC)。

也許性格使然，川普大廈被視為極其奢華富麗甚至自命不凡，是炫耀性消費的世外桃源。如果用酒品評判建築，那麼其室內設計並不像高端的凱歌香檳(Veuve Clicquot)，而更像普通的麥芽酒(Malt Liquor)。業界認為，川普大廈的中庭彰顯招搖，到處都是昂貴的精品店和華麗的黃銅，幾乎沒有空間可以閒逛。儘管如此，它依舊不失為富裕購物者的夢幻樂園。

The golden age was never the present age.

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2024: Herald Square, Newspaper Row in NYC(紐約城報社街區·先驅廣場)

2024: NY Public Library Main Branch-II(紐約公共圖書館主分館·內藏)

2024: NY Public Library Main Branch-I(紐約公共圖書館主分館·外觀)

2016: Third Marking Period of Seventh Grade(初二第三學制)

2013: Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador(厄瓜多爾十字架島)

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

2011: 埃及尼羅河遊輪(Cruising on the Nile, Egypt)

2011: 埃及寶石雙神廟(Twin Temples of Abu Simbel, Egypt)

2011: 埃及愛島神廟(Philae Temple—Isis, Osiris, and Horus, EGY)

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