2005-06-25
Song｜John Donne
| John Donne. 1573–1631 |
| 196. Song |
| (GO and catch a falling star) |
| GO and catch a falling star, | |
| Get with child a mandrake root, | |
| Tell me where all past years are, | |
| Or who cleft the Devil's foot; | |
| Teach me to hear mermaids singing, | 5 |
| Or to keep off envy's stinging, | |
| And find | |
| What wind | |
| Serves to advance an honest mind. | |
| If thou be'st born to strange sights, | 10 |
| Things invisible to see, | |
| Ride ten thousand days and nights | |
| Till Age snow white hairs on thee; | |
| Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me | |
| All strange wonders that befell thee, | 15 |
| And swear | |
| No where | |
| Lives a woman true and fair. | |
| If thou find'st one, let me know; | |
| Such a pilgrimage were sweet. | 20 |
| Yet do not; I would not go, | |
| Though at next door we might meet. | |
| Though she were true when you met her, | |
| And last till you write your letter, | |
| Yet she | 25 |
| Will be | |
| False, ere I come, to two or three. |
Song. 
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Four Quartets｜Eliot, T. S.
Four Quartets｜Eliot, T. S.
1935 BUIRNT NORTON (No. 1 of 'Four Quartets')
1940 EAST COKER (No. 2 of 'Four Quartets')
1941 THE DRY SALVAGES (No. 3 of 'Four Quartets')
1942 LITTLE GIDDING (No. 4 of 'Four Quartets')
*Krishna
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
\Krish"na\, n. [Skr. k[.r]sh[.n]a.] (Hindoo Myth.)
The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be
the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.
WordNet (r) 2.0
n:8th and most important avatar of Vishnu; incarnated as a
handsome young man playing a flute
Eliot considered Four Quartets his masterpiece, as it draws upon his knowledge of mysticism and philosophy. It consists of four long poems... each in five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, they have many things in common: each begins with a rumination on the geographical location of its title, and each meditates on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical, and on its relation to the human condition. A reflective early reading suggests an inexact systematicity among them; they approach the same ideas in varying but overlapping ways, although they do not necessarily exhaust their questions.
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1935 BUIRNT NORTON (No. 1 of 'Four Quartets')
I
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
1940 EAST COKER (No. 2 of 'Four Quartets')
III
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not.
1941 THE DRY SALVAGES (No. 3 of 'Four Quartets')
III
'Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;
You are not those who saw the harbour
Receding, or those who will disembark.
Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind.
...
Fare forward.
O voyagers, O seamen,
You who came to port, and you whose bodies
Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea,
Or whatever event, this is your real destination.'
So Krishna*, as when he admonished Arjuna
On the field of battle.
Not fare well,
But fare forward, voyagers.
1942 LITTLE GIDDING (No. 4 of 'Four Quartets')
V
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
...
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
*Krishna
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
\Krish"na\, n. [Skr. k[.r]sh[.n]a.] (Hindoo Myth.)
The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be
the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.
WordNet (r) 2.0
n:8th and most important avatar of Vishnu; incarnated as a
handsome young man playing a flute
Eliot considered Four Quartets his masterpiece, as it draws upon his knowledge of mysticism and philosophy. It consists of four long poems... each in five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, they have many things in common: each begins with a rumination on the geographical location of its title, and each meditates on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical, and on its relation to the human condition. A reflective early reading suggests an inexact systematicity among them; they approach the same ideas in varying but overlapping ways, although they do not necessarily exhaust their questions.
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2005-06-21
書評：《空間詩學》
作者：Gaston Bachelard
法文版：La Poétique de l’espace
1957, Paris: P.U.F.
英文版：The Poetics of Space
1994, Boston: Beacon Press.
中文版：《空間詩學》
譯者：龔卓軍、王靜慧
2003，台北：張老師文化
文化研究月報 v30/2003-08-15
書評－空間原型的閱讀現象學 龔卓軍
巴舍拉在第六章文末曾有此一妙問：
如果字詞是一戶戶的家屋，每戶都有自己的地窖與閣樓。
那麼，哲學家難道是被判定非得住在地面樓，用普通話對外交際嗎？
當建築師、空間規劃詩、文化心理學家和詩人早已窩進語詞家屋的各種角落；
哲學家的確該脫離地面樓，往閣樓、地窖的角落裡探索；
蜷縮在「文字家屋」中讓夢思萌芽。
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2005-06-20
Tao Te Ching XVIII, XXIII｜Lao Tzu
老子《道德經》第十八章
老子《道德經》第廿三章
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大道廢 有仁義
智慧出 有大偽
老子《道德經》第廿三章
希言自然
故飄風不終朝 驟雨不終日
孰為此者 天地
天地尚不能久 而況于人乎
故從事于道者 同于道
德者 同于德
失者 同于失
同于道者 道亦樂得之
同于德者 德亦樂得之
同于失者 失亦樂得之
信不足焉 有不信焉
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