2022-12-30 National Bacon Day

【Esthétique du Mal·X (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        He had studied the nostalgias. In these

        He sought the most grossly maternal, the creature

        Who most fecundly assuaged him, the softest

        Woman with a vague mustache and not the mauve

        Maman. His anima liked its animal

        And liked it unsubjugated, so that home

        Was a return to birth, a being born

        Again in the savagest severity,

        Desiring fiercely, the child of a mother fierce

        In his body, fiercer in his mind, merciless

        To accomplish the truth in his intelligence.

        It is true there were other mothers, singular

        In form, lovers of heaven and earth, she-wolves

        And forest tigresses and women mixed

        With the sea. These were fantastic. There were homes

        Like things submerged with their englutted sounds

        That were never wholly still. The softest woman,

        Because she is as she was, reality,

        The gross, the fecund, proved him against the touch

        Of impersonal pain. Reality explained.

        It was the last nostalgia: that he

        Should understand. That he might suffer or that

        He might die was the innocence of living, if life

        Itself was innocent. To say that it was

        Disentangled him from sleek ensolacings.

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【《恶之美学·之十》(1945年)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            他研究过怀旧之情。从中

            寻找最粗野的母性，这个家伙

            会圆滑地安慰他，最温柔

            留着轻微唇毛的女人而不是淡紫色的

            妈妈。他的灵魂深处喜欢原始欲望

            并且不屈不挠，致使家庭

            成了自我起源的回归，出生

            再次以最残酷的方式，

            强烈渴望，凶母之子

            身在身，心更凶，无情地

            通过智慧实现真理。

            确有其他母亲，独具

            鲜明的标志，痴心情人，雌狼

            还有森林母老虎和女人

            与海。表现奇妙。自在的

            东西与他们发出的声音融合在一起

            从不安于沉寂。最温柔的女人，

            因为她是曾经的样子，现实的、

            粗野的、多产的，向他证明可以抵抗

            非人的痛苦。现实得到了解释。

            这是最后的怀旧之情：他

            应该明白。无论痛苦或

            死亡全都纯真无邪，假若生命

            本身是无辜的。如此说来

            他摆脱了圆滑的安慰。

【注】这首诗歌描述一位灵魂深处喜欢原始欲望和不屈不挠的人。

缘分——天地之间无形的连结，令我们相遇，使我们相知，让我们相伴。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2013：Lemurs of Madagascar, Madagascar(马达加斯加狐猴岛)

2012: Malvinas/Falkland Is(马尔维纳斯群岛/福克兰群岛)

2010: 节日聚会(Holiday Party)

2009: 澳洲塔斯马尼亚荒原(Tasmania, Australia)

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