2022-10-22 National Nut Day

【The Auroras of Autumn·VIII (1948)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        There may be always a time of innocence.

        There is never a place. Or if there is no time,

        If it is not a thing of time, nor of place,

        Existing in the idea of it, alone,

        In the sense against calamity, it is not

        Less real. For the oldest and coldest philosopher,

        There is or may be a time of innocence

        As pure principle. Its nature is its end,

        That it should be, and yet not be, a thing

        That pinches the pity of the pitiful man,

        Like a book at evening beautiful but untrue,

        Like a book on rising beautiful and true.

        It is like a thing of ether that exists

        Almost as predicate. But it exists,

        It exists, it is visible, it is, it is.

        So, then, these lights are not a spell of light,

        A saying out of a cloud, but innocence.

        An innocence of the earth and no false sign

        Or symbol of malice. That we partake thereof,

        Lie down like children in this holiness,

        As if, awake, we lay in the quiet of sleep,

        As if the innocent mother sang in the dark

        Of the room and on an accordion, half-heard,

        Created the time and place in which we breathed. 

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【《秋天的极光·之八》(1948年)】

外来人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            也许总有片刻纯真。

            从来居无定所。要么那片刻并不存在，

            如果时间虚无缥缈，那么空间不复存在，

            只有想象的存在，仅此而已，

            与苦难相比，一点都不

            缺少真实。久经世故的哲学家说过，

            片刻纯真是或可能是

            朴实的源泉。自然是有尽头的，

            应该是，但又不是，就这样

            刺痛可怜家伙的恻隐之心，

            晚间完美而虚幻，

            早上奇丽又真实。

            就像空间的假想物质，

            几乎作为谓叙述语。但存在，

            存在，可见，可见，可见。

            那么，这些光并非一束光，

            难以理解的说道，却单纯善良。

            地球的纯真并无假象

            或恶意的象征。我们置身其中，

            像孩子一样躺在神圣的地方，

            仿佛，醒着，安详地沉睡，

            宛如圣洁的母亲在黑暗的

            房间里拉着手风琴歌唱，尚未听完，

            已让我们感受到时间和地点。

【注】纽约大学家庭周末(10/21/2022—10/23/2022)后记

元宇宙时代，真实与虚拟共生，餐饮业也是云里雾里，可以说纽约大学周边地区堪称一个大规模互联互通、实时架构三维虚拟世界的食物链，不仅有高效无限流的饮食大军同步持续体验，而且还不停地注入人文数据，譬如：身份、历史、资格、对象、通信和付款。我前来过纽大家庭周末时正巧是万圣节前一个星期，于是所有的餐厅都摆上了带有狂欢元素的鬼怪布饰。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2022: Campus w/o Walls @ New York Univ.(纽约大学·没有围墙的校园)

2022: Parent Weekend @ Stern of NYU, NYC(纽大明星商学院家庭周末)

2014：Analysis─The Amazing Invention(分析段落─了不起的发明)

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