2023-12-08 Bodhi Day

【Madame La Fleurie (1951)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end.

Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the earth and thought he lived in it.

Now, he brings all that he saw into the earth, to the waiting parent.

His crisp knowledge is devoured by her, beneath a dew.

Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon.

It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could be told.

It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.

It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.

The black fugatos are strumming the blackness of black...

The thick strings stutter the finial gutturals.

He does not lie there remembering the blue-jay, say the jay.

His grief is that his mother should feed on him, himself and what he saw,

In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked in her dead light.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《花夫人》(1951)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

        伴星啊，求你用末日巨大的權重壓垮他。

        將他封在那裡。他盯着一杯泥土，自以為住在裡面。

        現在，他把所看到的一切帶入大地，帶給等待的母親。

        露珠下，他的真知灼見被她吞沒。

        壓他，壓吧，讓月亮的睡意向他壓來。

        他看到的只是玻璃杯。他沒聽說什麼。

        他只用會的但不了解的語言。

        他找到寫在絕望手冊的篇章。

        黑色賦格曲顯得暗沉厚重……

        粗弦哽咽着最後刺耳的聲音。

        松鴉說，他沒躺在那兒回憶冠藍鳥。

        令他憂慮的是他母親該從他自己及他之所見得到滿足，

        那遠處室內，邪惡的大鬍子女王，在她死氣沉沉的光芒中。

【注】此詩本意：腦中的想法並不能保證它的存在，也就是沒有任何給定的存在。(Presence of an idea in the mind is no warrant of its existence. Nothing given exists.)

今年，洛克菲勒“黑麥田”中心按照既往慣例再次點亮了聖誕樹。

次數：第91屆

樹種：挪威雲杉

大小：高80英尺/24米、寬43英尺/13米、重26,456磅/12噸

樹齡：80年

產地：紐約州爐火貞女鎮(Vestal, NY)

燈數：5萬顆發光二極管(LED)燈珠、5英里/8公里長電線

頂星：1顆三維施華洛世奇(Swarovski)星星、重900磅/408公斤、70個尖角、300萬顆人造水晶

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2023: Dior's Carousel of Dreams, NYC(紐約城·金色夢想轉盤)

2023: Chinatown & Little Italy, NYC(紐約市·華埠與小意大利城)

2016: Argumentative─For the Flavor(議論文─利益)

2013: Top of the World, Dubai, UAE(阿聯酋迪拜世界之巔)

2010: 自己的事自己做(DIY)

Crosslinks(相關博文):

USA·New York(美國·紐約州)

USA(出遊美國)