2023-12-31 New Year's Eve

【Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    That would be waving and that would be crying,

    Crying and shouting and meaning farewell,

    Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre,

    Just to stand still without moving a hand.

    In a world without heaven to follow, the stops

    Would be endings, more poignant than partings, profounder,

    And that would be saying farewell, repeating farewell,

    Just to be there and just to behold.

    To be one's singular self, to despise

    The being that yielded so little, acquired

    So little, too little to care, to turn

    to the ever-jubilant weather, to sip

    One's cup and never to say a word,

    Or to sleep or just to lie there still,

    Just to be there, just to be beheld,

    That would be bidding farewell, be bidding farewell.

    One likes to practice the thing. They practice,

    Enough, for heaven. Ever-jubilant,

    What is there here but weather, what spirit

    Have I except it comes from the sun?

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【《挥手再见、再见、再见》(1936)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            那将是挥手，那将是哭泣，

            哭泣、叫喊、示以告别，

            眼别，心别，

            静立原地而手不挥动。

            在没有天堂可循的世界，停留

            会成结局，比离别更凄美、更深切，

            那将是告别，反复告别，

            只为呆在那儿观望而已。

            做独特的自我，鄙视

            那些付出极少、收获

            甚微、关怀无几的存在，转向

            永远欢腾的天气，啜饮

            举杯而一言不发，

            要么睡觉要么静卧，

            只为呆在那儿，只为看得到，

            那将是告别，告别。

            人喜欢侍奉。他们践行，

            充分地，为了天堂。永远欢腾，

            除了天气这儿还有什么，除了

            精神来自太阳我还有什么？

【注】逢年过节又到了走亲访友的时刻，“有情不管别离久，情在相逢终有期”。蜀苑和金城可谓我们常来常往的地方，喜欢寄托情怀的家乡风味，更推崇温良可人的餐厅老板。

西部的湘园离我家比较远，跑趟来回感觉像是赶集去了东边的费城，要不是最近才与业主的千金锦婷共享开放式办公室，湘园于我真是天方夜谭。“山河不足重，重在遇知己”！

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2015: Mei Ting Asian Fusion(梅婷亚洲风味)

2013: New Year's Eve on Mozambique Channel(莫桑比克海峡过阳历除夕)

2012: NY's Eve @ Sea, Argentina(阿根廷除夕航海)

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