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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【《揮手再見、再見、再見》(1936)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            那將是揮手，那將是哭泣，

            哭泣、叫喊、示以告別，

            眼別，心別，

            靜立原地而手不揮動。

            在沒有天堂可循的世界，停留

            會成結局，比離別更悽美、更深切，

            那將是告別，反覆告別，

            只為呆在那兒觀望而已。

            做獨特的自我，鄙視

            那些付出極少、收穫

            甚微、關懷無幾的存在，轉向

            永遠歡騰的天氣，啜飲

            舉杯而一言不發，

            要麼睡覺要麼靜臥，

            只為呆在那兒，只為看得到，

            那將是告別，告別。

            人喜歡侍奉。他們踐行，

            充分地，為了天堂。永遠歡騰，

            除了天氣這兒還有什麼，除了

            精神來自太陽我還有什麼？

【注】逢年過節又到了走親訪友的時刻，“有情不管別離久，情在相逢終有期”。蜀苑和金城可謂我們常來常往的地方，喜歡寄託情懷的家鄉風味，更推崇溫良可人的餐廳老闆。

西部的湘園離我家比較遠，跑趟來回感覺像是趕集去了東邊的費城，要不是最近才與業主的千金錦婷共享開放式辦公室，湘園於我真是天方夜譚。“山河不足重，重在遇知己”！

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2015: Mei Ting Asian Fusion(梅婷亞洲風味)

2013: New Year's Eve on Mozambique Channel(莫桑比克海峽過陽曆除夕)

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

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