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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【《告别佛罗里达“花”州·之二》(1935)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            她的思想束缚了我。手心灼热

            宛若我置身灰烬，仿佛

            树叶伴随狂风

            从我寒冷的北方呼啸阴沉的南方，

            她那松树、珊瑚和海妖的南方，

            她的家园，不是我的，在永远清新的小岛屿上，

            她的每一天，她的无垠黑夜，呼唤着

            音乐，礁石的轻吟。

            我该满足航行的北方

            并有把握忘却晒白的沙子……

【注】藉为本周暑假归来的大二学生接风洗尘，我们破天荒跑去东北费(Northeast Philadelphia)打卡全费城最大的中餐馆——金鼎海鲜酒家，往返车程将近一个半钟头，而周六高峰期的粤式午茶更需要至少廿分钟排号入坐。

对于身居纽约下城经常出入唐人街的娃儿来说，除了就餐环境具有可比性外，其它似乎没有什么新鲜之感。当然，人生值得尝试一次千载难逢。

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