2023-05-20 World Whisky Day

【Farewell to Florida·II (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot

As if I lived in ashen ground, as if

The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound

From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South,

Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea,

Her home, not mine, in the ever-freshened Keys,

Her days, her oceanic nights, calling

For music, for whisperings from the reefs.

How content I shall be in the North to which I sail

And to feel sure and to forget the bleaching sand…

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【《告別佛羅里達“花”州·之二》(1935)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            她的思想束縛了我。手心灼熱

            宛若我置身灰燼，仿佛

            樹葉伴隨狂風

            從我寒冷的北方呼嘯陰沉的南方，

            她那松樹、珊瑚和海妖的南方，

            她的家園，不是我的，在永遠清新的小島嶼上，

            她的每一天，她的無垠黑夜，呼喚着

            音樂，礁石的輕吟。

            我該滿足航行的北方

            並有把握忘卻曬白的沙子……

【注】藉為本周暑假歸來的大二學生接風洗塵，我們破天荒跑去東北費(Northeast Philadelphia)打卡全費城最大的中餐館——金鼎海鮮酒家，往返車程將近一個半鐘頭，而周六高峰期的粵式午茶更需要至少廿分鐘排號入坐。

對於身居紐約下城經常出入唐人街的娃兒來說，除了就餐環境具有可比性外，其它似乎沒有什麼新鮮之感。當然，人生值得嘗試一次千載難逢。

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