2023-11-24 Black Friday

【The World as Meditation (1952)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

J’ai passé trop de temps à travailler mon violon, à voyager. Mais l'exercice essentiel du compositeur—la méditation—rien ne l'a jamais suspendu en moi … Je vis un rêve permanent, qui ne s'arrête ni nuit ni jour.

Georges Enesco

    Is it Ulysses that approaches from the east,

    The interminable adventurer? The trees are mended.

    That winter is washed away. Someone is moving

    On the horizon and lifting himself up above it.

    A form of fire approaches the cretonnes of Penelope,

    Whose mere savage presence awakens the world in which she dwells.

    She has composed, so long, a self with which to welcome him,

    Companion to his self for her, which she imagined,

    Two in a deep-founded sheltering, friend and dear friend.

    The trees had been mended, as an essential exercise

    In an inhuman meditation, larger than her own.

    No winds like dogs watched over her at night.

    She wanted nothing he could not bring her by coming alone.

    She wanted no fetchings. His arms would be her necklace

    And her belt, the final fortune of their desire.

    But was it Ulysses? Or was it only the warmth of the sun

    On her pillow? The thought kept beating in her like her heart.

    The two kept beating together. It was only day.

    It was Ulysses and it was not. Yet they had met,

    Friend and dear friend and a planet's encouragement.

    The barbarous strength within her would never fail.

    She would talk a little to herself as she combed her hair,

    Repeating his name with its patient syllables,

    Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near.

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【《沉思的世界》(1952)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

像旅行一樣，我花了太多時間練習小提琴，但基本訓練對於作曲家來說必不可少——如同沉思——我從未間斷過……我生活在永恆的夢想之中，不分晝夜。

羅馬尼亞裔法國籍音樂家“農夫·優雅”(1881-1955)

        是從東方來的尤利西斯“憤怒”嗎？

        永不停息的冒險家？樹木得以修復。

        那個冬天被一掃而盡。有人開始

        改變與超越。

        一種火焰接近帕涅羅泊“織工”的提花飾布，

        以兇猛的現身喚醒她棲居的世界。

        長久以來她塑造自我來迎候他，

        想象着他為她做自我的伴侶，

        在彼此中呵護，朋友那親愛的朋友。

        樹木已被修復，作為

        超然沉思的必要練習，大過她自己的。

        夜裡沒有風像狗一樣守護着她。

        她不想要他無法提供的東西。

        她不想要任何玩藝。他的臂膀就是她的項鍊

        還有她的腰帶，它們欲望的最後財富。

        但這是“憤怒”嗎？還只是

        她枕頭上陽光的溫暖？思緒好似心在跳動。

        兩者互相貫通。就在這天。

        是“憤怒”但又不是。然而他們卻早已相遇，

        朋友那親愛的朋友那整個星球的鞭策。

        她內心的洪荒之力永不消退。

        她一邊梳頭一邊自言自語，

        重複他那含有耐性音節的名字，

        豈能忘懷永遠親密的他。

【注】感恩節是我們與家人朋友團聚的日子，是我們重溫感恩於心回報於行的時刻：留不住的是歲月年華，忘不了的是親朋好友，謝不盡的是關心照顧，丟不掉的是人情義理。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2022: Thankful Dinner @ Bamboo Szechuan, PA(蜀苑川菜館·感恩節晚餐)

2017 Thanksgiving @ CGCC(2017年神州基督教會感恩節)

2011: Narrative─Thanksgiving Turkey(記敘文─感恩節火雞)

Crosslinks(相關博文):

2022 Thanksgiving @ CGCC, PA(賓州·2022年神州基督教會感恩節)

2019 Thanksgiving @ CGCC, PA(賓州·2019年神州基督教會感恩節)

2017 Thanksgiving @ CGCC, PA(賓州·2017年神州基督教會感恩節)

2016 Thanksgiving @ CGCC, PA(賓州·2016年神州基督教會感恩節)

2015 Thanksgiving @ CGCC, PA(賓州·2015年神州基督教會感恩節)

Junior(大學三年級'2023-24)