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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【《惡之美學·之十四》(1945年)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            勝利者·侍從說過：“我理解他的論點

            確使人們在這位邏輯瘋子面前

            感覺無動於衷。”

            他照此描述不變者。革命

            是邏輯瘋子的事情。

            情感政治似乎

            成為知識結構。原因

            創造了一種無法

            與瘋子區分開來的邏輯……人們希望能

            在日內瓦湖畔漫步並思索邏輯：

            想起墓穴里的邏輯學家

            還有其古墳的邏輯世界。

            湖泊比海洋更合乎情理。因而，

            崇高思想中的長廊，

            湖岸邊，照明的白雲，古墳間，

            讓人無動於衷，仿佛

            人們遇見不變者，他會打斷談話

            神經失常地。他未必看到湖泊。

            他恐怕是單一思維的瘋子

            即使世間萬象，希望所有人

            按其生活、工作、受苦並死去

            即使世間萬象。他未必看到白雲，

            用蒼火點亮邏輯殉道者。

            他的極端邏輯不合邏輯。

【注】這首詩歌描述神賜·高貴·不變者(Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov)，一根筋的瘋子。

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