2022-11-25 Blank Friday

【Esthétique du Mal·IV (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Livre de Toutes Sortes de Fleures D'Après Nature.

        All sorts of flowers. That's the sentimentalist.

        When B. sat down at the piano and made

        A transparence in which we heard music, made music

        In which we heard transparent sounds, did he play

        All sorts of notes? Or did he play only one

        In an ecstasy of its associates,

        Variations in the tone of a single sound,

        The last, or sounds so single they seemed one?

        And then that Spaniard of the rose, itself

        Hot-hooded and dark-blooded, rescued the rose

        From nature, each time he saw it, making it

        As he saw it, exist in his own especial eye.

        Can we conceive of him as rescuing less,

        As muffing the mistress for her several maids,

        As foregoing the nakedest passion for barefoot

        Philandering?…The genius of misfortune

        Is not a sentimentalist. He is

        That evil, that evil in the self from which

        In desperate hallow, rugged gesture, fault

        Falls out on everything. The genius of

        The mind, which is our being, wrong and wrong,

        The genius of the body, which is our world,

        Spent in the false engagements of the mind.

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【《恶之美学·之四》(1945年)】

外来人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            《百花丛书》指南，

            各种各样的花卉，那就是感伤主义者。

            当B坐在钢琴前并用

            幻灯片让我们听到音乐，用音乐

            让我们听到透明的声响，他弹奏

            所有音符了吗？或者他仅表演那段

            令人陶醉的部分，

            单个声调的音色变化，

            最后的、或听起来单个却似乎合一？

            接着那位玫瑰的西班牙人，本身

            热血奔放，从自然中

            补救玫瑰，每次看到它，都会

            如其所见，慧眼捕捉。

            我们能否设想他没那么补救，

            错把主妇当成她的几位女仆，

            将最赤裸裸的热情化作光脚

            调情？…倒霉的资质

            不是感伤主义者。他是

            那个邪恶、那个源于自我的邪恶

            以绝望的神圣、粗犷的姿态，过失

            败坏一切。心灵的

            资质，内在部分，错上加错，

            身体的资质，外在范畴，

            耗在心灵的错误定位上。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2016 Thanksgiving @ CGCC(2016年神州基督教会感恩节)

2016: Raking Leaves(清扫秋叶)

2015: Argumentative─Crutches(议论文─拐杖)

2011: Narrative─Thanksgiving Turkey(记叙文─感恩节火鸡)

2010: 歌舞升平(Thankful Holiday)

【注】百年那得更百年，今日还须爱今日。

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