2023-12-08 National Brownie Day

【The Rock - Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn (1954)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The rock is the gray particular of man's life,

        The stone from which he rises, up -- and -- ho,

        The step to the bleaker depths of his descents...

        The rock is the stern particular of the air,

        The mirror of the planets, one by one,

        But through man's eye, their silent rhapsodist,

        Turquoise the rock, at odious evening bright

        With redness that sticks fast to evil dreams;

        The difficult rightness of half-risen day.

        The rock is the habitation of the whole,

        Its strength and measure, that which is near, point A

        In a perspective that begins again

        At B: the origin of the mango's rind.

        It is the rock where tranquil must adduce

        Its tranquil self, the main of things, the mind,

        The starting point of the human and the end.

        That in which space itself is contained, the gate 

        To the enclosure, day, the things illumined

        By day, night and that which night illumines,

        Night and its midnight-minting fragrances,

        Night's hymn of the rock, as in a vivid sleep.

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【《岩石——夜歌中岩石的形态》(1954)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            岩石呈人生的灰质特征，

            他从上面站起来的石头，嚯，

            通往无尽深渊的台阶……

            岩石呈空气的严肃特征，

            行星之镜，一颗接着一颗，

            但通过人的眼睛，沉默的狂诗家，

            岩石呈蓝绿色，在讨厌的夜晚

            明亮带着红色紧随恶梦；

            黎明时难以辨别。

            岩石是整个的居所，

            其力量和尺度都在附近，A点

            远景重新开始于

            B点：芒果皮的源头。

            岩石恰置必须唤起 

            宁静的地方，事物的主体，心灵，

            人类的起点和终点。

            包容着空间本身，通向

            紧闭的大门，白日，光明照亮的

            事物，夜晚及其黑暗笼罩的东西，

            深宵散发的芬芳，

            岩石的夜歌，一如在生动的睡眠里。

【注】哥伦布“鸽子”公园在哪？我手握定位失灵的谷歌导图，站在运河街与百老汇交道口，把目光投向眼前正热情指挥早高峰期过往行人、看似印度裔的交通警身上。

“你找孙中山？”他会意地笑着问。

我喜出望外！按照活地图的指示，我不仅见着了开国元勋，而且还遇到了孔老夫子，并重新走进了既熟悉又陌生的曼哈顿“弓”下城华埠及小意大利。

最近离家较近的费城华埠开了一家连锁店——“江南”中餐馆，自称演绎出传统与创新融合的美食交响曲，对吴地一带江南菜系情有独钟的我来说，这次北上纽约正想领略“江南”大本营正宗的徐海、淮扬、金陵和苏帮等风味，哪怕浙菜或徽菜也成。不出所料地，“江南”中餐馆只是儒雅别号而非特色烹饪，它侧重的融合多于传统，譬如：北京烤鸭、四川水煮鱼、新疆孜然羊、广东白切鸡等非江南风味特色菜引领食客，归根结底“江南”中餐馆以市场需求为导向，谁叫正宗的苏菜响油鳝糊无法打动纽约仔的味蕾呢?

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2013: Top of the World, Dubai, UAE(阿联酋迪拜世界之巅)

2010: 自己的事自己做(DIY)

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