2024-02-18 The First Sunday of Lent

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IV (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        This luscious and impeccable fruit of life

        Falls, it appears, of its own weight to earth.

        When you were Eve, its acrid juice was sweet,

        Untasted, in its heavenly, orchard air.

        An apple serves as well as any skull

        To be the book in which to read a round,

        And is as excellent, in that it is composed

        Of what, like skulls, comes rotting back to ground.

        But it excels in this, that as the fruit

        Of love, it is a book too mad to read

        Before one merely reads to pass the time.

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【《我叔叔的單片眼鏡·之四》(1918)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            這甘美無瑕的生命之果

            似乎因其自身重力而落到地球。

            當你還是夏娃，再苦澀的漿汁依然甜蜜、

            清新，散發出神聖而馥郁的氣息。

            蘋果像任何腦仁一樣

            成為閱讀的書，

            而且同樣出色，畢竟也由

            像腦仁一樣入土腐爛的東西組成。

            但遠非於此，那愛

            之果，就是令人痴狂卻無法

            只為打發光陰而閱讀的書。

【注】從44個站台數量和占地面積49英畝/37個棒球場來看，紐約城的中央總站是世界上最大的火車站。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2024: Shop for Mod Parka Post-Snow, NYC(紐約城·雪後選購棉猴大衣)

2024: Hutong in Awesome Setting, NYC(紐約城·非比尋常的“胡同”食府)

2024: Estela w/ One Michelin Star, NYC(紐約城·“星辰”米其林一星餐廳)

2018 Teachers' Appreciation Dinner(2018年光華教師答謝晚宴)

2017 MathCounts Regional Competition(2017年初中數學分區賽)

2015: Chinese New Year Eve @ Lai Lai Garden(來來花園春節年夜飯)

Crosslinks(相關博文):

USA·New York(美國·紐約州)

USA(出遊美國)