The death that lives in the intention of things
To have a meaning of some sort or other,

That means to come to something in the end,
It is the death that lives not finding the meaning

Of this or that object as it moves among them
Uncertainly, moving among the shadows,

The things that are like shadows, shadows of things,
The things the shadows of shadows, all in the effort

To put off the death that we are coming to.
The intention makes its way among its moments,

Choosing this object or that, uncertainly,
Somebody’s cock or cunt, or the leaves of a tree

On a summer night in a landscape somewhere else,
Under which something happened that made it different;

It is seeking to find the meaning of what they are.
But it moves uncertainly among them, the shadows,

The things that are like shadows, putting off
The death that is coming, that we are coming to.

It is the death that lives that makes the flower
Be what’s it’s going to be and makes it die,

And makes the musical phrase complete itself,
Or fail to complete itself, as Goethe said,

Writing a friend whose son had died in the Army:
“So you have had another terrible trial.

It’s still, alas, the same old story: to live
Long is to outlive many; and after all,

We don’t even know, then, what it was all about.
The answer to part of the riddle is, we each

Have something peculiarly our own, that we
Mean to develop by letting it take its course.

This strange thing cheats us from day to day, and so
We grow old without knowing how it happened or why.”

It is the death that lives in the intention of things
To have a meaning of some sort or other;

Implacable, bewildered, it moves among us
Seeking its own completion, still seeking to do so,

But also putting it off, oh putting it off,
The death that is coming, that we are coming to.

還是第一次聽詩人讀詩.

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居庸關的日全蝕.  NY Times說“rishi”的中文意思是”eaten sun”.  ai, 不知是中共字還是錯別字.

(Photo: Aly Song/ Reuters/ NY Times)
甘肅日蝕.

(Photo: Associated Press/ NY Times)
巴基斯坦Islamabad的grand Faisal mosque.

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Stanley慢慢穿過木無表情的眾人. 在看見他的妹Bonnie倒在血泊之前, 背景響起Damien Rice的9 Crimes. And is that alright, yeah? 當Bonnie轉身逃走時, 大家也以為她跟恐怖片的公式女角一樣. 誰知她進屋便橫起一支獵槍, 守在她哥未婚妻藏身的房間前. 貫徹了這TV drama: 美式小鎮的氣概.

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Callipygous: having finely formed buttocks
Eleemosynary: the giving of alms or charity

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“You’d have faith,” Stone said. The bg music is exactly this one.

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“you’re sure, there is cure.”

(52 min)

Greenwald talks about travelling and travel writing.

(46 min)

Tom Dalzell, author of “Vice Slang” discusses on slang.

Since 1983, Dalzell has devoted “a considerable portion” of his life to the study of American slang, and is recognized as a national expert. He has authored two books on slang, Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Merriam-Webster, 1996) and The Slang of Sin (Merriam-Webster, 1998). Dalzell is the senior editor of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, a two-volume dictionary to be published by Routledge of London in 2005.

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Writer David Hajdu discusses his book “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America.”