2024-04-27 International Marconi Day

【Parochial Theme (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Long-tailed ponies go nosing the pine-lands,

    Ponies of Parisians shooting on the hill.

    The wind blows. In the wind, the voices

    Have shapes that are not yet fully themselves, 

    Are sounds blown by a blower into shapes,

    The blower squeezed to the thinnest mi of falsetto.

    The hunters run to and fro. The heavy trees,

    The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust,

    The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines

    Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

    These are the forest. This health is holy,

    This halloo, halloo, halloo heard over the cries

    Of those for whom a square room is a fire,

    Of those whom the statues torture and keep down.

    This health is holy, this descant of a self,

    This barbarous chanting of what is strong, this blare.

    But salvation here? What about the rattle of sticks

    On tins and boxes? What about horses eaten by wind?

    When spring comes and the skeletons of the hunters

    Stretch themselves to rest in their first summer's sun,

    The spring will have a health of its own, with none

    Of autumn's halloo in its hair. So that closely, then,

    Health follows after health. Salvation there:

    There's no such thing as life; or if there is,

    It's faster than the weather, faster than

    Any character. It is more than any scene:

    Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

    Piece the world together, boys, but not with your hands.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《狹隘主題》(1942)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            長尾馬駒在松樹地里嗅來聞去，

            小山上奔跑着巴黎馬駒。

            大風颳起。聲音在風中

            尚未完全成形，

            莫非吹奏者把聲音吹成形，

            控氣至最柔的假音咪。

            獵人們來回奔跑。茂密的樹木，

            輕顫搖曳的枝椏，結實、

            夜行、古老、蒼翠的松樹

            讓情感墜入恐怖的深淵。

            這些森林。這神聖的健康，

            這嘿、嘿、嘿喊叫聲蓋住了吶喊

            以為四方屋是火焰，

            遭受塑像折磨和鎮壓。

            這神聖的健康，這自我的慶祝，

            這擅長的粗狂吟唱，這刺耳的喧鬧。

            但在這兒救贖麼？枝條敲打

            在錫罐盒上呢？大風吞噬馬群呢？

            當春天來臨而獵人的軀體

            在初夏的陽光下伸展休息，

            春天自有養生之道，毫無

            秋天的禁忌。因此十分密切地，

            健康追隨健康。在那裡救贖：

            沒有生命這樣的東西；即便有的話

            相比天氣善變，相比

            任何角色靈活。相比其它場景豐富：

            無論關乎斷頭台還是另外迷人的絞刑。

            小伙子們，把世界拼湊出來，但不用你們的雙手。

【注】自1901年以來，“山村·良民”百貨店在行業聲望、品牌策劃和終極奢侈品購物體驗方面均已超越紐約城另外一家久負盛名的奢侈品零售商——1924年開業的第五大道剪刀百貨店(Saks 5th Ave)，不僅引領全球品牌時尚、個性化服務及華麗精緻新潮流，而且渾然將老式魅力綻放出現代奢華。此外，其大廈一直是紐約中城地標性建築。

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