2026 Wise Folks Don't Argue w/ the Smart(智者不与聪明人争)
2026-08-30 National Beach Day
【The Comedian As The Letter C-V | A Nice Shady Home (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
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Was he to bray this in profoundest brass
Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems?
Was he to company vastest things defunct
With a blubber of tom-toms harrowing the sky?
Scrawl a tragedian's testament? Prolong
His active force in an inactive dirge,
Which, let the tall musicians call and call,
Should merely call him dead? Pronounce amen
Through choirs infolded to the outmost clouds?
Because he built a cabin who once planned
Loquacious columns by the ructive sea?
Because he turned to salad-beds again?
Jovial Crispin, in calamitous crape?
Should he lay by the personal and make
Of his own fate an instance of all fate?
What is one man among so many men?
What are so many men in such a world?
Can one man think one thing and think it long?
Can one man be one thing and be it long?
The very man despising honest quilts
Lies quilted to his poll in his despite.
For realists, what is is what should be.
And so it came, his cabin shuffled up,
His trees were planted, his duenna brought
Her prismy blonde and clapped her in his hands,
The curtains flittered and the door was closed.
Crispin, magister of a single room,
Latched up the night. So deep a sound fell down
It was as if the solitude concealed
And covered him and his congenial sleep.
So deep a sound fell down it grew to be
A long soothsaying silence down and down.
The crickets beat their tambours in the wind,
Marching a motionless march, custodians.
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【《喜剧演员就像字母C之五 | 舒适的阴凉小屋(1921)】
华莱士·史蒂文斯“异乡人·花环”(1879生—1955卒)
【红霞译】
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难道他要用最深沉的铜管
以赋格安魂曲驱散梦境?
难道要随着震颤长空的沉闷鼓声,
去陪伴那宏阔的逝去之物?
草拟悲剧家的遗嘱?将他
活跃的生命力延续到无力的挽歌——
任凭高个子乐师反复吟唱,
最终却只宣告他的逝去?
让唱诗班齐声高呼“阿门”,直至天际?
只因他曾构想大海边的雄辩石柱,
如今却只筑起小屋?
只因他又归返生菜田垄?
快活的克里斯宾“卷发”,披上灾难的丧服?
他是否该抛开自我,将个人的命运
化作一切命运的缩影?
自然万物中,一人又算得了什么?
这样的世界里,众生又算得了什么?
人能否长存同一个念头?
人能否长持同一存在?
那个曾鄙夷朴实被褥的人,
如今却违背己愿,被裹到头顶。
对现实主义者,是即应是。
于是小屋匆匆搭起,
树种下了,女管家带来
她的金发美人,交到他手中,
窗帘飘动,门关上了。
克里斯宾,独居斗室的主人,
锁住了夜晚。深沉的声响落下,
仿佛那孤独将他及其
安稳的睡眠一并覆盖。
那声响如此深沉,竟化作了
漫长而充满启示的静默,不断深入。
蟋蟀在风中敲击铃鼓,
如守护者,踏着静止不动的步伐。
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【注】通透的人不争对错。他们知道,对错只是立场,不是真理。那些各执一词的人,不是谁更接近真相,只是站在不同的地平线上。争辩争的不是答案,是各自不肯收回的目光。而真正看清的人,早已把对错放下,像放下了一件不合身的外衣——不是认输,是发现那件衣服从一开始就不属于自己。他们不急着证明什么,只是退后一步,看见争执的浪潮在远处起落,而自己站在岸边,风从肩膀绕过,像经过一块已经不需要再移动的石头。
不争的人,把原本用来纠缠的力气还给了生活本身。幸福的人忙着感受——光线落在桌角的形状,风从屋檐转向的方向,雨水在窗沿上调整自己的节奏。他们不是在逃避问题,而是把注意力从“谁对谁错”转移到“此刻正在发生什么”。当一个人不再试图说服任何人,他便腾出了双手,可以接住那些微小的、不需要辩护的瞬间:一杯刚好可以入口的茶,一阵经过窗台的晚风,一段不需要被解读的沉默。它们不会成为论点,却会在回头时,构成他真正活过的证据。
我曾困在对错里很久,以为是在追求公正,后来才发觉,那只是在用争辩维持一种虚假的掌控感。直到有一天,我放过一场早已无关内容的争执,坐下来才发现窗外的树一直绿着——而我从未留意过它是如何从光里吸收那层深浅的。那一刻我终于明白,通透不是看穿了什么,而是放下了什么。我不再需要自己永远正确,只需要坐在树影里,感受那些正在经过的风和回声,不需要解释,只需要被经过。我依然会判断,但不再需要赢;依然会思考,却不再用它来抵御世界。偶尔我还会遇见那个想要争辩的自己,她只是停在远处,不再试图让人听见她的声音。而我继续坐在这片树影里,让光从叶隙漏下,落在我终于空下来的手上。树从未变过,只是我终于坐下来了。
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