2024-04-27 International Marconi Day

【Parochial Theme (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Long-tailed ponies go nosing the pine-lands,

    Ponies of Parisians shooting on the hill.

    The wind blows. In the wind, the voices

    Have shapes that are not yet fully themselves, 

    Are sounds blown by a blower into shapes,

    The blower squeezed to the thinnest mi of falsetto.

    The hunters run to and fro. The heavy trees,

    The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust,

    The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines

    Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

    These are the forest. This health is holy,

    This halloo, halloo, halloo heard over the cries

    Of those for whom a square room is a fire,

    Of those whom the statues torture and keep down.

    This health is holy, this descant of a self,

    This barbarous chanting of what is strong, this blare.

    But salvation here? What about the rattle of sticks

    On tins and boxes? What about horses eaten by wind?

    When spring comes and the skeletons of the hunters

    Stretch themselves to rest in their first summer's sun,

    The spring will have a health of its own, with none

    Of autumn's halloo in its hair. So that closely, then,

    Health follows after health. Salvation there:

    There's no such thing as life; or if there is,

    It's faster than the weather, faster than

    Any character. It is more than any scene:

    Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

    Piece the world together, boys, but not with your hands.

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【《狭隘主题》(1942)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            长尾马驹在松树地里嗅来闻去，

            小山上奔跑着巴黎马驹。

            大风刮起。声音在风中

            尚未完全成形，

            莫非吹奏者把声音吹成形，

            控气至最柔的假音咪。

            猎人们来回奔跑。茂密的树木，

            轻颤摇曳的枝桠，结实、

            夜行、古老、苍翠的松树

            让情感坠入恐怖的深渊。

            这些森林。这神圣的健康，

            这嘿、嘿、嘿喊叫声盖住了呐喊

            以为四方屋是火焰，

            遭受塑像折磨和镇压。

            这神圣的健康，这自我的庆祝，

            这擅长的粗狂吟唱，这刺耳的喧闹。

            但在这儿救赎么？枝条敲打

            在锡罐盒上呢？大风吞噬马群呢？

            当春天来临而猎人的躯体

            在初夏的阳光下伸展休息，

            春天自有养生之道，毫无

            秋天的禁忌。因此十分密切地，

            健康追随健康。在那里救赎：

            没有生命这样的东西；即便有的话

            相比天气善变，相比

            任何角色灵活。相比其它场景丰富：

            无论关乎断头台还是另外迷人的绞刑。

            小伙子们，把世界拼凑出来，但不用你们的双手。

【注】自1901年以来，“山村·良民”百货店在行业声望、品牌策划和终极奢侈品购物体验方面均已超越纽约城另外一家久负盛名的奢侈品零售商——1924年开业的第五大道剪刀百货店(Saks 5th Ave)，不仅引领全球品牌时尚、个性化服务及华丽精致新潮流，而且浑然将老式魅力绽放出现代奢华。此外，其大厦一直是纽约中城地标性建筑。

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