【兰波:地狱一季】
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王以培译《地狱一季》
Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.
Oneevening I took Beauty in my arms-- and I thought her bitter-- and I insulted her.
Isteeled myself against justice.
Ifled. O witches, O misery, O hate, my treasure was left in your care...
Ihave withered within me all human hope. With the silent leap of a sullen beast, I have downed and strangled every joy.
Ihave called for executioners; I want to perish chewing on their gun butts. I have called for plagues, to suffocate in sand and blood. Unhappiness has been my god. I have lain down in the mud, and dried myself off in the crime-infested air. I have played the fool to the point of madness.
Andspringtime brought me the frightful laugh of an idiot.
Nowrecently, when I found myself ready to croak! I thought to seek the key to the banquet of old, where I might find an appetite again.
Thatkey is Charity. (This idea proves I was dreaming!)
"Youwill stay a hyena, etc....," shouts the demon who once crowned me with such pretty poppies. "Seek death with all your desires, and all selfishness, and all the Seven Deadly Sins."
Ah,I've taken too much of that; still, dear Satan, don't look so annoyed, I beg you! And while waiting for a few belated cowardices, since you value in a writer all
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