加载中…【约翰·阿什贝利（John Ashbery）】
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... by an Earthquake
A hears
by chance a familiar name, and the name involves a riddle of the
past.
B, in
love with A, receives an unsigned letter in which the writer states
that she is the mistress of A and begs B not to take him away from
her.
B,
compelled by circumstances to be a companion of A in an isolated
place, alters her rosy views of love and marriage when she
discovers, through A, the selfishness of men.
A, an
intruder in a strange house, is discovered; he flees through the
nearest door into a windowless closet and is trapped by a spring
lock.
A is so
content with what he has that any impulse toward enterprise is
throttled.
A solves
an important mystery when falling plaster reveals the place where
some old love letters are concealed.
A-4,
missing food from his larder, half believes it was taken by a
“ghost.”
A, a
crook, seeks unlawful gain by selling A-8 an object, X, which A-8
already owns.
A sees a
stranger, A-5, stealthily remove papers, X, from the
pocket
of
another stranger, A-8, who is asleep. A follows A-5.
A sends
an infernal machine, X, to his enemy, A-3, and it falls
into
the hands
of A’s friend, A-2.
Angela
tells Philip of her husband’s enlarged prostate, and asks for
money.
Philip,
ignorant of her request, has the money placed in an escrow
account.
A
discovers that his pal, W, is a girl masquerading as a
boy.
A,
discovering that W is a girl masquerading as a boy, keeps the
knowledge to himself and does his utmost to save the masquerader
from annoying experiences.
A, giving
ten years of his life to a miserly uncle, U, in exchange for a
college education, loses his ambition and
enterprise.
A,
undergoing a strange experience among a people weirdly deluded,
discovers the secret of the delusion from Herschel, one of the
victims who has died. By means of information obtained from the
notebook, A succeeds in rescuing the other victims of the
delusion.
A dies of
psychic shock.
Albert
has a dream, or an unusual experience, psychic or otherwise, which
enables him to conquer a serious character weakness and become
successful in his new narrative, “Boris Karloff.”
Silver
coins from the Mojave Desert turn up in the possession of a
sinister jeweler.
Three
musicians wager that one will win the affections of the local
kapellmeister’s wife; the losers must drown themselves in a nearby
stream.
Ardis,
caught in a trap and held powerless under a huge burning glass, is
saved by an eclipse of the sun.
Kent has
a dream so vivid that it seems a part of his waking
experience.
A and A-2
meet with a tragic adventure, and A-2 is killed.
Elvira,
seeking to unravel the mystery of a strange house in the hills, is
caught in an electrical storm. During the storm the house vanishes
and the site on which it stood becomes a lake.
Alphonse
has a wound, a terrible psychic wound, an invisible psychic wound,
which causes pain in flesh and tissue which, otherwise, are
perfectly healthy and normal.
A has a
dream which he conceives to be an actual
experience.
Jenny,
homeward bound, drives and drives, and is still driving, no nearer
to her home than she was when she first started.
Petronius
B. Furlong’s friend, Morgan Windhover, receives a wound from which
he dies.
Thirteen
guests, unknown to one another, gather in a spooky house to hear
Toe reading Buster’s will.
Buster
has left everything to Lydia, a beautiful Siamese girl poet of whom
no one has heard.
Lassie
and Rex tussle together politely; Lassie, wounded, is forced to
limp home.
In the
Mexican gold rush a city planner is found imprisoned by outlaws in
a crude cage of sticks.
More
people flow over the dam and more is learned about the missing
electric cactus.
Too many
passengers have piled onto a cable car in San Francisco; the
conductor is obliged to push some of them off.
Maddalena, because of certain revelations she has received,
firmly resolves that she will not carry out an enterprise that had
formerly been dear to her heart.
Fog
enters into the shaft of a coal mine in Wales.
A violent
wind blows the fog around.
Two
miners, Shawn and Hillary, are pursued by fumes.
Perhaps
Emily’s datebook holds the clue to the mystery of the seven swans
under the upas tree.
Jarvis
seeks to manage Emily’s dress shop and place it on a paying basis.
Jarvis’s bibulous friend, Emily, influences Jarvis to take to
drink, scoffing at the doctor who has forbidden Jarvis to indulge
in spirituous liquors.
Jarvis,
because of a disturbing experience, is compelled to turn against
his friend, Emily.
A ham has
his double, “Donnie,” take his place in an important
enterprise.
Jarvis
loses his small fortune in trying to help a friend.
Lodovico’s friend, Ambrosius, goes insane from eating the
berries of a strange plant, and makes a murderous attack on
Lodovico.
“New
narrative” is judged seditious. Hogs from all over go squealing
down the street.
Ambrosius, suffering misfortune, seeks happiness in the
companionship of Joe, and in playing golf.
Arthur,
in a city street, has a glimpse of Cathy, a strange woman who has
caused him to become involved in a puzzling
mystery.
Cathy,
walking in the street, sees Arthur, a stranger,
weeping.
Cathy
abandons Arthur after he loses his money and is injured and sent to
a hospital.
Arthur,
married to Beatrice, is haunted by memories of a former sweetheart,
Cornelia, a heartless coquette whom Alvin loves.
Sauntering in a park on a fine day in spring, Tricia and
Plotinus encounter a little girl grabbing a rabbit by its ears. As
they remonstrate with her, the girl is transformed into a mature
woman who regrets her feverish act.
Running
up to the girl, Alvin stumbles and loses his coins.
In a
nearby dell, two murderers are plotting to execute a
third.
Beatrice
loved Alvin before he married.
B, second
wife of A, discovers that B-3, A’s first wife, was
unfaithful.
B, wife
of A, dons the mask and costume of B-3, A’s paramour, and meets A
as B-3; his memory returns and he forgets B-3, and goes back to
B.
A
discovers the “Hortensius,” a lost dialogue of Cicero, and returns
it to the crevice where it lay.
Ambrose
marries Phyllis, a nice girl from another town.
Donnie
and Charlene are among the guests invited to the
window.
No one
remembers old Everett, who is left to shrivel in a
tower.
Pellegrino, a rough frontiersman in a rough frontier camp,
undertakes to care for an orphan.
Ildebrando constructs a concealed trap, and a person near
to him, Gwen, falls into the trap and cannot escape.
John Ashbery, “... by an Earthquake” from
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