2024-02-02 Groundhog Day

【Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion (1947)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Oh, that this lashing wind was something more

    Than the spirit of Ludwig Richter …

    The rain is pouring down. It is July.

    There is lightning and the thickest thunder.

    It is a spectacle. Scene 10 becomes 11,

    In Series X, Act IV, et cetera.

    People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,

    Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old,

    The air is full of children, statues, roofs

    And snow. The theatre is spinning round,

    Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.

    The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.

    And Ludwig Richter, turbulent Schlemihl,

    Has lost the whole in which he was contained,

    Knows desire without an object of desire,

    All mind and violence and nothing felt.

    He knows he has nothing more to think about,

    Like the wind that lashes everything at once.

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【《動態混亂與非動態混亂》(1947)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            噢，但願這猛烈的風不止是

            名將·法官的精神……

            大雨傾盆而下。時值七月。

            迅若閃電而勢過雷鳴。

            景象蔚為奇觀。場景10變成11，

            X系列裡、第四幕、等等。

            人們從窗戶墜落，樹木搖搖欲倒，

            夏去冬來，少年變老，

            空氣里充滿了孩子、雕像、屋頂

            還有雪。劇場迴轉，

            與聾啞教堂和光學系統相撞。

            大批女高音歌手都在唱音階優美的歌曲。

            而名將·法官，暴躁的倒霉鬼，

            已經失去他所在的整體，

            知道欲望而沒有欲望的對象，

            所有的思想和暴力都感覺不到。

            他明白沒有什麼可想，

            就像風轉瞬間席捲一切。

【注】《吾家有女初長》作者不詳，但出現在白居易《長恨歌》裡的經典名句廣為流傳，藉之慶祝13歲的湉妞，讓生活、勇氣和改變注入未來。

                吾家有女初長成，

                嬌俏可人及傾城。

                借問芬芳春與秋，

                豆蔻年華無憂愁。

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