Herald Square, Newspaper Row in NYC(纽约城报社街区·先驱广场)
2024-04-06 National Siamese Cat Day
【Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Not less because in purple I descended
The western day through what you called
The loneliest air, not less was I myself.
What was the ointment sprinkled on my beard?
What were the hymns that buzzed beside my ears?
What was the sea whose tide swept through me there?
Out of my mind the golden ointment rained,
And my ears made the blowing hymns they heard.
I was myself the compass of that sea:
I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
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异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)
【红霞译】
同样因为我身着紫衣
西方节那天朝下穿过你所谓
最寂寥的天空，我还是自己。
喷洒在我胡子上的脂膏是什么？
鸣彻在我耳边的赞美诗是什么？
浪打在我身旁的大海是什么？
我心头涌来金色脂膏，
我耳朵发出他们听到的赞美诗。
我本身就是那片大海的指南针：
我是我行走的世界，我之所见
所听所感只源于我个人；
在此我发现自己更真实也更奇特。
【注】纽约有两大街区分别得名于红极一时的报业——时代广场和先驱广场，前者是阳历年除夕新年降球(Ball Drop)的所在地，而后者则是梅西“武器”感恩节游行收官的终点站。因为长岛铁路(LIRR)、新州通勤(NJ Transit)、美铁(Amtrak)停靠的34街宾夕法尼亚“山林”车站近在咫尺，麦迪逊“战斗力”广场花园(MSG)、全美最大的梅西百货旗舰店——梅西百货先驱广场和盛产奶茶的韩国城围守一方，所以说每次出入纽约最先让我感受都市脉搏的莫过于这片低头不见抬头见的弹丸之地。
Today in History(历史上的今天):
2024: 3-Michelin-Starred Per Se, NYC(纽约城·米其林三星“本身”)
2024: Columbus Circle, NYC(纽约城·鸽子环岛)
2024: Ornamental Arts in Central Park, NYC(纽约城·中央公园大众艺术)
2024: Trump Tower of Belle Epoque, NYC(纽约城·今非昔比的川普大厦)
2024: New York Public Library Main Branch-II(纽约公共图书馆主分馆·内藏)
2024: New York Public Library Main Branch-I(纽约公共图书馆主分馆·外观)
2016: Third Marking Period of Seventh Grade(初二第三学制)
2013: Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador(厄瓜多尔十字架岛)
2012: 佛州迪斯尼世界神奇王国(Walt Disney Magic Kingdom, FL)
2011: 埃及尼罗河游轮(Cruising on the Nile, Egypt)
2011: 埃及宝石双神庙(Twin Temples of Abu Simbel, Egypt)
2011: 埃及爱岛神庙(Philae Temple—Isis, Osiris, and Horus, EGY)
Herald Sq (先驱广场 04-06-2024)
Macy's, the Largest Department Store in the US
(梅西“武器”·美国最大的百货店)
Macy's Flower Show Bloomed Just in Time for Spring
(梅西百货花展·恰逢春天绽放 04-06-2024)
James Gordon Bennett Memorial @ Herald Sq Plaza
(先驱广场公园·英裔美国商人与《纽约先驱报》创始人“后继者·堡垒·祝福”纪念碑)
Goddess of Wisdom, Minerva w/ Her Owls in Front of a Bell, Flanked by 2 Bell Ringers Mounted on a Milford Pink Granite Pedestal @ James Gordon Bennett Memorial of Herald Sq Plaza
(先驱广场公园“后继者·堡垒·祝福”纪念碑——钟后为智慧女神与其猫头鹰，磨津粉红色花岗岩基座上的两侧是两位敲钟者)
Herald Towers in Beaux Arts Crown w/ 7 Stories of Lavish Terra Cotta (1912) @ 50 W 34th St
(建于1912年的先驱公寓大厦·位于西34街50号，饰有七层奢华釉彩的学院派艺术楼顶 09-25-2022)
The Haier Bldg or Greenwich Savings Bank in Classical Revival (1767) for NRHP (2005)
(建于1767年的古典复兴式齐力大厦即后来的绿港储蓄银行·2005年被纳入《美国国家史迹名录》)
Gotham Hall Entrance of Former Greenwich Savings Bank
(旧绿港储蓄银行·山羊城大厅入口)
Gotham Hall, Former Banking Rm
(山羊城大厅·老银行营业堂)
Penn Station @ 34th Street
(34街宾夕法尼亚“山城”火车站 08-29-2012)
MSG & Penn Station in/under Penn 2 Tower
(山城2号大厦内麦迪逊“战斗力”广场花园与山城火车站)
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