2023-11-29 Electronic Greetings Day

【The Rock - Seventy Years Later (1954)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    It is an illusion that we were ever alive,

    Lived in the houses of mothers, arranged ourselves

    By our own motions in a freedom of air.

    Regard the freedom of seventy years ago.

    It is no longer air. The houses still stand,

    Though they are rigid in rigid emptiness.

    Even our shadows, their shadows, no longer remain.

    The lives these lived in the mind are at an end.

    They never were ... The sounds of the guitar

    Were not and are not. Absurd. The words spoken

    Were not and are not. It is not to be believed.

    The meeting at noon at the edge of the field seems like

    An invention, an embrace between one desperate clod

    And another in a fantastic consciousness,

    In a queer assertion of humanity:

    A theorem proposed between the two --

    Two figures in a nature of the sun,

    In the sun's design of its own happiness,

    As if nothingness contained a métier,

    A vital assumption, an impermanence

    In its permanent cold, an illusion so desired

    That the green leaves came and covered the high rock,

    That the lilacs came and bloomed, like a blindness cleaned,

    Exclaiming bright sight, as it was satisfied,

    In a birth of sight. The blooming and the musk

    Were being alive, an incessant being alive,

    A particular being, that gross universe.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《岩石·七十年后》(1954)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

        我们曾经活过本是一种幻觉，

        住在母亲的房子里，让自己

        在通风透气的地方活动身体。

        聊作七十年前的自由。

        空气不复存在。房屋依然矗立，

        尽管它们呆在僵化的空虚中。

        甚至我们的影子，它们的影子，再无延承。

        这些生活在脑海中的生命已经结束。

        它们从未……吉他声

        过去不存在，现在也不存在。毫无意义。所说的话

        过去不存在，现在也不存在。且莫相信。

        中午在田边的邂逅看成 

        虚构的故事，绝望的笨蛋拥抱

        荒唐的傻瓜，

        用人性奇怪的断言：

        两者间推导出定理——

        依赖太阳的两个人物，

        在阳光下设计属于自己的幸福，

        仿佛虚无蕴含技艺，

        赋予生命设想，变化无时不在

        长久严寒之中，幻觉如此强烈

        让绿树覆盖天石，

        使丁香花儿盛开，如同消除盲疾，

        兴高采烈地惊叹明亮的目光，

        视觉诞生。麝香怡然

        留芳，永远充满活力，

        一个特定存在，那粗犷的宇宙。

【注】经朋友介绍，我抱着试试看的心态走进了宾州北外乡镇赵南秀(Cho Nam Soo)医生开的脊柱推拿诊所，没想到很快就喜欢上了这里，且不说医疗保险包揽全部费用，最有收获的莫过于前台宋哉沅(Song Jae Won))美眉笑容可掬，按摩师姜赫珉(Kang Hyoek Min)先生拿捏得体，业主赵医生平易近人，他操手的筋膜枪能够降低肌肉深处的张力，因此我每次整脊康复归来都感觉偏移的锥体得以纠正，椎间隙有所增宽，椎间盘的压力明显减轻，总之坐骨神经疼痛症状逐渐缓解直到最近完全消除，创造了不可思议的奇迹！

〖病史〗我是2021年患上坐骨神经痛的，确诊之前至少有几个月小腿部位出现游走性麻木并伴有轻微酸痛，终因疼得步履艰难疑似假性跛行综合征(Pseudoclaudiction Syndrome)才去照了X光片，不难看出腰椎骨最低的两个椎间盘L4和L5轻微突出，推测可能由于腰椎退行性变化与黄韧带增厚，造成侧隐窝狭窄与马尾神经受压，结果刺激腰椎神经根，同时引起软组织积液。静养了大半年，症状明显减轻，可没想到一年后，也就是2022年病情突然加剧，核磁共振成像(MRI)核实了L4/L5处出现重叠的小至中度左侧椎间盘突出，外加轻度至中度中心狭窄，左侧隐窝和左侧神经孔严重狭窄，而右侧神经孔则轻度变窄。红发骨科门诊部(Rothman Orthopaedics Institute)医生见状立刻建议我进行椎板切开手术(Laminectomy)，希望从受影响的椎骨上移除部分椎板，由此产生的脊柱开口可能足以减轻神经的压力，不然的话还要去除仍然压迫神经的任何骨刺或椎间盘突出组成物质。

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