'Waste Land' / 荒原

[fiefoe]

Courtesy of mefi, I read this in multiple sittings. It's really nice to get the allusions explained -- for instance, it makes me very glad that we didn't really pick the name Philomena for our offspring. (Other phrases to note: the fisher king, 'Consider Phlebas', empty chapel, April / to open.) 又对比了查良铮的译文，要不是这页里字的颜色太难看，应该再对照几个版本的。。。

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed.

bats with baby faces in the violet light {I found this to be more scary than the hooded third person.}

He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience.

我说不出话来，两眼看不见，我
不生也不死，什么也不知道，
看进光的中心，那一片沉寂。

在它那壁上是说不尽的   {原文 Inexplicable，为什么不是‘说不清’呢？ }
爱奥尼亚的皎洁与金色的辉煌。 

还有时光的其它残骸断梗

哒亚德万：我听见钥匙
在门上转动一下，只转动了一下
我们想着钥匙，每人在囚室里，
想着钥匙，每人认定一间牢房