Trinity Church Wall Street, NYC(纽约·华尔街三一教堂)
2022-09-25
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·VI (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
When at long midnight the Canon came to sleep
And normal things had yawned themselves away,
The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,
Beyond which fact could not progress as fact.
Thereon the learning of the man conceived
Once more night's pale illuminations, gold
Beneath, far underneath, the surface of
His eye and audible in the mountain of
His ear, the very material of his mind.
So that he was the ascending wings he saw
And moved on them in orbits' outer stars
Descending to the children's bed, on which
They lay. Forth then with huge pathetic force
Straight to the utmost crown of night he flew.
The nothingness was a nakedness, a point
Beyond which thought could not progress as thought.
He had to choose. But it was not a choice
Between excluding things. It was not a choice
Between, but of. He chose to include the things
That in each other are included, the whole,
The complicate, the amassing harmony.
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【《最高虚构笔记——它必须快乐·之六》(1942年)】
威尔士人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)
【红霞译】
当漫长午夜牧师酣然入睡
而正常的事情都趋于无聊乏味，
虚无赤裸无遮，巅峰境界，
超出不能变成事实的事实。
于是，君子之学孕育出
另一个夜晚苍白的光芒，金子
在下，极深的地方，眼球的
外表和耳岩锥的
听觉，驾驭心灵之物。
结果他亲眼目睹自身飞翔的翅膀
并沿着太空行星运行的轨道遨游
下凡到孩子们床前，娃儿
就寝的地方。之后心怀巨大的悲恸
直接飞到黑夜极冠的尽头。
虚无赤裸无遮，巅峰境界
超出不能变成思想的思想。
他不得不做出选择。但这个选择并非
排查事物。不是在于
比较权衡，而是取舍决定。他选择含有
彼此相互关联的东西，兼及整体性、
复杂性、聚结性的和谐。
【注】1697年，在荷兰人把纽约当作所谓的“新河岸”(New Amsterdam)贸易站70多年后，三一教堂赢得英格兰国王威廉(意指“坚定保护者”)三世的皇家特许状，从那时起便成为纽约不可分割的一部分。如今，三一教堂和圣保罗教区教堂(St. Paul's Chapel，意指“卑微圣徒”)堪称华尔街三一教堂圣公会社区的基石。
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