2022-09-25 National Comic Book Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·VII (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        He imposes orders as he thinks of them,

        As the fox and snake do. It is a brave affair.

        Next he builds capitols and in their corridors,

        Whiter than wax, sonorous, fame as it is,

        He establishes statues of reasonable men,

        Who surpassed the most literate owl, the most erudite

        Of elephants. But to impose is not

        To discover. To discover an order as of

        A season, to discover summer and know it,

        To discover winter and know it well, to find,

        Not to impose, not to have reasoned at all,

        Out of nothing to have come on major weather,

        It is possible, possible, possible. It must

        Be possible. It must be that in time

        The real will from its crude compoundings come,

        Seeming at first, a beast disgorged, unlike,

        Warmed by a desperate milk. To find the real,

        To be stripped of every fiction except one,

        The fiction of an absolute—Angel,

        Be silent in your luminous cloud and hear

        The luminous melody of proper sound.

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【《最高虛構筆記——它必須快樂·之六》(1942年)】

威爾士人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            他隨心所想強施指令，

            就像狐狸和蛇。可謂果敢之舉。

            接着他建造神殿而且在走廊里，

            比蠟還白，氣勢非凡，因此聲名遠揚，

            他給智者立雕像，

            那些超越極聰穎的貓頭鷹和最博學的

            大象之輩。但強施不是

            發掘。發掘季節性的

            指令，發掘夏天並切身體驗，

            發掘冬天並實地感受，挖掘，

            而不強施，既不睜着眼睛說瞎話，

            也不見風就是雨，

            可能、可能、可能。肯定

            可能。肯定到時候

            真正的意志源於自然萬物，

            乍一看，野獸湧現，不同於，

            絕望牛奶的溫馨。尋找真實，

            不惜去除其它所有虛構而僅留唯一，

            一個純粹的虛構——天使，

            在你絢爛的雲朵中靜聽

            讚美曲絢爛的旋律。

【注】在恩賜島(Elise Island)成為海外入關美國的移民站之前，炮台公園一直用於紐約移民的登陸點；直到1890年，地頭堡移民中心才被埃恩賜島取代而改作露天劇場。

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