2023-01-21 National Hugging Day

【Esthétique du Mal·XIV (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument

        With the blank uneasiness which one must feel

        In the presence of a logical lunatic."

        He said it of Konstantinov. Revolution

        Is the affair of logical lunatics.

        The politics of emotion must appear

        To be a intellectual structure. The cause

        Creates a logic not to be distinguished

        From lunacy…One wants to be able to walk

        By the lake at Geneva and consider logic:

        To think of the logicians in their graves

        And of the worlds of logic in their great tombs.

        Lakes are more reasonable than oceans. Hence,

        A promenade amid the grandeurs of the mind,

        By a lake, with clouds like lights, among great tombs,

        Gives one a blank uneasiness, as if

        One might meet Konstantinov, who would interrupt

        With his lunacy. He would not be aware of the lake.

        He would be the lunatic of one idea

        In a world of ideas, who would have all the people

        Live, work, suffer, and die in that idea

        In a world of ideas. He would not be aware of the clouds,

        Lighting the martyrs of logic with white fire.

        His extreme of logic would be illogical.

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【《恶之美学·之十四》(1945年)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            胜利者·侍从说过：“我理解他的论点

            确使人们在这位逻辑疯子面前

            感觉无动于衷。”

            他照此描述不变者。革命

            是逻辑疯子的事情。

            情感政治似乎

            成为知识结构。原因

            创造了一种无法

            与疯子区分开来的逻辑……人们希望能

            在日内瓦湖畔漫步并思索逻辑：

            想起墓穴里的逻辑学家

            还有其古坟的逻辑世界。

            湖泊比海洋更合乎情理。因而，

            崇高思想中的长廊，

            湖岸边，照明的白云，古坟间，

            让人无动于衷，仿佛

            人们遇见不变者，他会打断谈话

            神经失常地。他未必看到湖泊。

            他恐怕是单一思维的疯子

            即使世间万象，希望所有人

            按其生活、工作、受苦并死去

            即使世间万象。他未必看到白云，

            用苍火点亮逻辑殉道者。

            他的极端逻辑不合逻辑。

【注】这首诗歌描述神赐·高贵·不变者(Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov)，一根筋的疯子。

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