‘When we encouter Stepen Dedalus,the first architect,the mythological first architect, father of Icarus make wings for his son Icarusso that Icarus could fly to the sun.’

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Musee des Beaux Arts_W.H.Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

美术馆_奥登
王佐良 译
关于痛苦他们总是很清楚的，
这些古典画家：他们深知它在
人心中的地位；深知痛苦会产生，
当别人在吃，在开窗，或作着无聊的散步的时候；
深知当老年人热烈地、虔敬地等候
神异的降生时，总会有些孩子
并不特别想要它出现，而却在
树林边沿的池塘上溜着冰。
他们从不忘记：
即使悲惨的殉道也终归会完结
在一个角落，乱糟糟的地方，
在那里狗继续着狗的生涯，而迫害者的马
把无知的臀部在树上摩擦。
在勃鲁盖尔的“伊卡鲁斯”里，比如说；
一切是多么安闲地从那桩灾难转过脸：
农夫或许听到了堕水的声音和那绝望的呼喊，
但对于他，那不是了不得的失败；
太阳依旧照着白腿落进绿波里；
那华贵而精巧的船必曾看见
一件怪事，从天上掉下一个男童，
但他有某地要去，仍静静地航行。

🚬……对最喜欢的几句的理解
1.‘Its human position: how it takes place’
在人类的位置：它如何演出
想到阿伦特的《人的境况》和她的关于讲_Evil of banality的电影《汉娜·阿伦特》

2.‘Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.’
然而在一个角落，某个肮脏一隅
那里狗继续着狗日子，折磨者的马驹
在树上蹭着无辜的屁股

3.‘That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course’
即使最悲惨的殉道也必须走完自己的过程
想到‘Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.’[ 102 ]
自由而立，自由而倒，都取决于自己
‘for soI formd them free, and free they must remain,
Till they enthrall themselves’ [ 125]
他们必享自由，堕落亦必自决
_Paradise Lost _John Milton_BOOK 3 _LINE 102&125）

4.‘the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water’
太阳照耀如故
它必须照亮那双白腿消失在绿
海
‘This young artist about to forge in the smithy of the soul,the unrequite longings of his age .’

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🚬……一本相关书
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Quotations
« When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. »
—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 5

« A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. »
—Ulysses, Episode 9

« Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. »
—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

« History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. »
—Ulysses, Episode 2

🚬……和画有关的诗
http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/titlepage.html

🚬……PS.没忍住……写了个这个是啥。最近越来越跑题啦…