2022-09-25 Math Storytelling Day

【The Auroras of Autumn·IV (1948)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Farewell to an idea … The cancellings,

        The negations are never final. The father sits

        In space, wherever he sits, of bleak regard,

        As one that is strong in the bushes of his eyes.

        He says no to no and yes to yes. He says yes

        To no; and in saying yes he says farewell.

        He measures the velocities of change.

        He leaps from heaven to heaven more rapidly

        Than bad angels leap from heaven to hell in flames.

        But now he sits in quiet and green-a-day.

        He assumes the great speeds of space and flutters them

        From cloud to cloudless, cloudless to keen clear

        In flights of eye and ear, the highest eye

        And the lowest ear, the deep ear that discerns,

        At evening, things that attend it until it hears

        The supernatural preludes of its own,

        At the moment when the angelic eye defines

        Its actors approaching, in company, in their masks.

        Master O master seated by the fire

        And yet in space and motionless and yet

        Of motion the ever-brightening origin,

        Profound, and yet the king and yet the crown,

        Look at this present throne. What company,

        In masks, can choir it with the naked wind?

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【《秋天的極光·之四》(1948年)】

外來人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            告別構思……狀態解除，

            否定永遠不會終結。父親置身

            九層之台，無論何處，都消極看待，

            散漫眼神中的強者。

            他對不說不對是稱是。他肯定

            不是；而說是的時候，卻道再會。

            他衡量變化周轉率。

            他從天堂越過天堂的速度要比

            惡魔從天堂墜入地獄之門的火坑更快。

            但如今他終日靜賞自然。

            臆想天體轉速驚人並引發振動

            從雲收天到淨無埃，再到萬里晴

            飛舞中的視聽感官，最尖銳的眼睛

            最靈敏的耳朵，強烈的辨音力能察覺，

            夜晚出現的動靜直至聽到

            自身超脫現實的序曲，

            當天使之眼望見

            演員靠近，會集一起，戴着面具。

            主啊坐在篝火邊的救世主

            縱使九層之台仍屹立不動而且

            永葆生機活力，

            深邃睿智，不愧是國王，還加冕皇冠，

            瞧這眼前的寶座。多好的會集，

            戴着面具，能與裸露風和鳴嗎？

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(美洲大道1251號·大通銀行聖誕燈 12-17-2014)

Capuchin Mission Office (冠毛帽傳教處 07-17-1998)

Yuyu Yang's East-West Gate in front of Oriental Oversees Bld @ 88 Pine St

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Sculpture of Joie de Vivre @ 135 Broadway

(紳士街135號·雕塑《生活之樂》06-07-2015)

Jean Dubuffet's “Group of Four Trees”@ 28 Liberty St

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Sculpture of The Red Cube @ 140 Broadway

(紳士街140號·雕塑《紅立方》05-28-2017)

The Sphere in Sphere @ Mount Sinai Hospital

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Unisphere @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park

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A Wandering Life in Metropolitan NYC-3(浪跡紐約大都會之三)

A Wandering Life in Metropolitan NYC-2(浪跡紐約大都會之二)

A Wandering Life in Metropolitan NYC-1(浪跡紐約大都會之一)

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