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。即便如此，我起码没

被“宠坏”

，浑身还洋溢 着感恩之情。如果数数自己的福气也算是小气的话，那我布鲁斯特·艾兴登就是个小气鬼。

This will give you some idea of what I'm like:

简单给您说说我的为人：

On Having an Account in a Swiss Bank: I never had one, and suggest you stay away from them too. Oh, the mystery and

romance is all very well, but never forget that your Swiss bank offers no premiums, whereas for opening a savings account

for 5,000 or more at First National City Bank of New York or other fine institutions you get wonderful premiums

—

picnic

hampers, Scotch coolers, Polaroid cameras, Hudson's Bay blankets from L. L. Bean, electric shavers, even lawn furniture.

My managers always leave me a million or so to play with, and this is how I do it. I suppose I've received hundreds of such

bonuses. Usually I

give them to

friends or as gifts at Christmas to doormen and other loosely

connected personnel of the

household, but often I keep them and use them myself. I'm not stingy. Of course I can afford to buy any of these things

—

and

I do, I enjoy making purchases

—

but somehow nothing brings the joy of existence home to me more than these premiums.

Something from nothing

—

the two-suiter from Chase Manhattan and my own existence, luggage a bonus and life a bonus too.

Like having a film star next to you on your flight from the Coast. There are treats of high order, adventure like cash in the

street.

说到在瑞士银行开户：我从没开过，建议你也别开。当然，那种神秘感觉和浪漫色彩挺不错的 。但记住，瑞士银行

从不提供任何礼品。相反，如果你在纽约第一国民城市银行或别的优 质机构开一个

5000

美元或更多的储蓄帐户，你

就可以得到精美礼品，像什么野餐篮子啦、苏格兰冷饮啦、宝丽来相机啦、名牌毛毯啦、电动剃须刀啦 ，甚至还有

草坪家私。我的经理们总给我留个百儿八十万元什么的玩着花，我顺手就到银 行开个户。估计类似的赠品我已有几

百件了。我常拿它们送朋友或作为圣诞礼物送给门童 和家里的勤杂人员。但我也经常留下自用。我不是抠门的人，

这些玩意儿我当然买得起— —也去买过，我喜欢购物一一但不知为什么，这些赠品给我带来了无与伦比的快乐。从

无 到有——大通·曼哈顿银行送的男士小行李箱是这样，我的人生也是这样；行李箱是赠品，人生也是赠品。那感< /p>

觉就像在从西岸回来的飞机上，发现邻座是个电影明星。生活中总有这种难得的乐事，就像 大街上捡钱那样刺激。

Let's enjoy ourselves, I say; let's have fun. Lord, let us live in the sand by the surf of the sea and play till cows come home.

We'll have a house on the Vineyard and a brownstone in the Seventies and a pied-à

-terre in a world capital when something

big is about to break. (Put the Cardinal in the back bedroom where the sun gilds the bay at afternoon tea and give us the

courage

to

stand

up

to

secret

police

at

the

door,

to

top

all

threats

with

threats

of

our

own,

the

nicknames

of

mayors

and

ministers, the fast comeback at the front stairs, authority on us like the funny squiggle the counterfeiters miss.) Re-Columbus

us.

Engage

us

with

the

overlooked,

a

knowledge

of

optics,

say,

or

a

gift

for

the

tides.

(My

pal,

the

heir

to

most

of

the

vegetables in inland Nebraska, has become a superb amateur oceanographer. The marine studies people invite him to Wood's

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Hole each year. He has a wave named for him.) Make us good at things, the countertenor and the German language, and teach

us

to

be

as

easy

in

our

amateur

standing

as

the

best

man

at

a

roommate's

wedding.

Give

us

hard

tummies

behind

the

cummerbund and long swimmer's muscles under the hound's tooth so that we may enjoy our long life. And may all our stocks

rise to the occasion of our best possibilities, and our humanness be bullish too.

我 常说，我们要玩得开心，要及时行乐。上帝啊，让我们住在海边吧，踏沙，冲浪，嬉戏，直至永远。我们要在马< /p>

萨葡萄园岛有一套独栋别墅，在纽约七十几街有一套褐石豪宅，在某个世界之都有个安乐窝 ，以便就近亲临大事的

现场。

(

请红衣 主教住最里边的卧室，下午茶时分的阳光将海湾镀上金色，同时给我们增添勇气，直面门外的秘密警

察，以我们的威胁来消除一切外来的威胁，报出达官贵人们的诨名，在门口与他们唇枪舌战，那种威势 ，就像纸币

上古怪的防伪线条，无法模仿。

)

< br>我们要像哥伦布再世。我们要致力于别人忽略的东西，如光学的某一方面或研究海

潮的某种能力。

(

我有个朋友，在远离海洋的内布拉斯加州继承 了蔬菜种植业，却成了一位出色的业余海洋学家。研

究海洋的专业人士每年都请他去伍兹 霍。有一种海浪以他的名字命名。

)

让我们擅长点什么吧，无论 成为男高音歌手

还是掌握德文。让我们轻松地做业余专家，就像在室友的婚礼上做伴郎那 样容易。让我们的腰带下有结实的小腹，

泳衣里有游泳健将的强劲肌肉，这样我们会安享 长命天年。让我们的股票天天猛涨，让我们做人也牛气冲天。

Speaking personally I am glad to be a heroic man.

私下里说，我很乐意做个英雄人物。

I am pleased that I am attractive to women but grateful I'm no bounder. Though I'm touched when married women fall in love

with

me,

as

frequently

they

do,

I

am

rarely

to

blame.

I

never

encourage

these

fits

and

do

my

best

to

get

them

over

their

derangements so as not to lose the friendships of their husbands when they are known to me, or the neutral friendship of the

ladies themselves. This happens less than you might think, however, for whenever I am a houseguest of a married friend I

usually make it a point to bring along a girl. These girls are from all walks of life

—

models, show girls, starlets, actresses,

tennis professionals, singers, heiresses and the daughters of the diplomats of most of the nations of the free world. All walks.

They tend, however, to conform to a single physical type, and are almost always tall, tan, slender and blond, the girl from

Ipanema as a wag friend of mine has it. They are always sensitive and intelligent and good at sailing and the Australian crawl.

They

are

never

blemished

in

any

way,

for

even

something

like

a

tiny

beauty

mark

on

the

inside

of

a

thigh

or

above

the

shoulder blade is enough to put me off, and their breaths must be as sweet at three in the morning as they are at noon. (I never

see a woman who is dieting for diet sours the breath.) Arm hair, of course, is repellent to me though a soft blond down is now

and then acceptable. I know I sound a prig. I'm not. I am

—

well, classical, drawn by perfection as to some magnetic, Platonic

pole, idealism and beauty's true North.

很高兴我深得女人青睐，但谢天谢地，我 绝非好色之徒。尽管已婚女人有意于我时——这是常事——我会感动，但

多责不在我。< /p>

我从不鼓励这样的一时冲动，

还会尽量让她们恢复平静，

以便保持与她们的夫君一一如果认识的话――

的友谊，或者与她们本人的 适度关系。不过，这种事比你想像的要少，因为每次我到已婚明友的府上做客，都刻意

携 一位靓女同行。这些女孩各行各业都有：模特啦、舞女啦、新星啦、演员啦、职业网球手啦、歌手啦、富家女啦< /p>

什么的，还有自由世界许多国家外交官的女儿们，真的是形形色色。我的玩伴往往都像一个 模子铸出来的，几乎都

是个子高挑、肤色健康、身段苗条、金发碧眼的可爱美人，用我一 个喜欢调侃的朋友的说话，她就像歌中走出来的

“来自伊帕内玛的女孩”

。她们都敏感聪慧，擅长玩帆船和澳式自由泳。她们完美无瑕，因为即使是大腿内侧或锁骨

上边的美人痣也让我扫兴。

她们还必需呵气如兰，

即 使在凌晨三点也要像正午时分那样清新

(

我从不约见节食的女人 ，

因为节食会使她的呼吸带酸味儿

)

。 自然，腋毛令我反感，金色细软绒毛倒是偶尔可以接受。听起来我有点自命不凡。

但我不 是。我是那种，怎么说呢，正统的人，喜欢尽善尽美，像被某种磁力吸引着，去追求那种柏拉图式的理想的、

纯粹的美妙。

（集体讨论，蒋骁华、孔昊执笔）

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Beyond Life < /p>

超越生命

[

美

]

卡贝尔

著

I want my life, the only life of which I am assured, to have symmetry or, in default of that, at least to acquire some clarity.

Surely it is not asking very much to wish that my personal conduct be intelligible to me! Yet it is forbidden to know for what

purpose this universe was intended, to what end it was set a-going, or why I am here, or even what I had preferably do while

here. It vaguely seems to me that I am expected to perform an allotted task, but as to what it is I have no notion. And indeed,

what have I done hitherto, in the years behind me? There are some books to show as increment, as something which was not

anywhere before I made it, and which even in bulk will replace my buried body, so that my life will be to mankind no loss

materially. But the course of my life, when I look back, is as orderless as a trickle of water that is diverted and guided by

every pebble and crevice and grass-root it encounters. I seem to have done nothing with pre-meditation, but rather, to have

had things done to me. And for all the rest of my life, as I know now, I shall have to shave every morning in order to be ready

for no more than this!

我愿此生，我唯一确知的此生，能和谐地度过；若此 愿不遂，至少也该活得有几分清醒。希望自己之所作为能被自

己了解，这肯定不算要求过 分。不过有些奥秘却不容你去了解，诸如宇宙宏旨之所在，乾坤归宿在何方，我为何置

身 于此间，于此间该做何事等。我隐约觉得此生被指望去履行一项既定使命，但这是项什么使命，我却一无所知。< /p>

而且真正说来，我在过去的岁月里又有过什么作为呢？有那么几本书可显示为生命之赢余， 可显示为在我创作其之

前这世间未曾有过的东西，其体积甚至可置换我入土后的那副躯壳 ，从而使我生命之结束不致给人类造成物质损失。

但当回首往昔，我发现自己的生命历程 就像溪流之蜿蜒漫无定向，触石砄草根则避而改道，遇岩缝土隙则顺而流之。

我似乎做任 何事都未经事先考虑，而是任凭事务来摆布自己。且据我眼下所知，在我的整个余生，我每日清晨得剃

I have attempted to make the best of my material circumstances always; nor do I see to-day how any widely varying course

could have been wiser or even feasible: but material things have nothing to do with that life which moves in me. Why, then,

should

they

direct

and

heighten

and

provoke

and

curb

every

action

of

life?

It

is

against

the

tyranny

of

matter

I

would

rebel

—

against life's absolute need of food, and books, and fire, and clothing, and flesh, to touch and to inhabit, lest life perish.

No, all that which I do here or refrain from doing lacks clarity, nor can I detect any symmetry anywhere, such as living would

assuredly

display,

I

think,

if

my

progress

were

directed

by

any

particular

motive.

It

is

all

a

muddling

through,

somehow,

without any recognizable goal in view, and there is no explanation of the scuffle tendered or anywhere procurable. It merely

seems that to go on living has become with me a habit.

我总想善用身边的物质环境，因时至今日我也不知 有任何迥异之做法会更为明智可行。然身外之物与涌动于我心中

的那种生命毕竟无关。既 如此，为何人之一举一动又常为身外之物所引所趋，所扬所抑？我所厌恶的正是这种物质

之主宰——这种为了生命苟存于世而对食物、书本、炉火、衣衫等身外之物以及灵魂借以寓居之肉体的纯粹需求。

的确，我在世界之全部所为或忍而不为之事都不甚明了，无论何处我都看不到丝毫和谐， 而我认为，我的人生历程

若有任何特定目标之指引，定会显现出那种明澈和谐。但不知何 故，我眼前无可辨之目标，一直在浑然度日，而且

对这种蹉跎或茫然也无从解说。活下去 似乎已成了我的一种习惯，仅此而已。

And I want beauty in my life. I have seen beauty in a sunset and in the spring woods and in the eyes of divers women, but

now these happy

accidents of light and color no longer thrill me. And I

want beauty in

my life itself, rather than in such

chances

as befall

it.

It

seems

to

me

that

many

actions of

my

life

were

beautiful,

very

long

ago,

when

I

was

young

in

an

evanished world of friendly girls, who were all more lovely than any girl is nowadays. For women now are merely more or

less good-looking, and as I know, their looks when at their best have been painstakingly enhanced and edited. But I would

like this life which moves and yearns in me, to be able itself to attain to comeliness, though but in transitory performance.

The life of a butterfly, for example, is just a graceful gesture: and yet, in that its loveliness is complete and perfectly rounded

in itself, I envy this bright flicker through existence. And the nearest I can come to my ideal is punctiliously to pay my bills,

be polite to my wife, and contribute to deserving charities: and the program does not seem, somehow, quite adequate. There

are my books, I know; and there is beauty

other persons, too, which I may read at will: but this desire inborn in me is not to be satiated by making marks upon paper,

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nor by deciphering them. In short, I am enamored of that flawless beauty of

which all poets have perturbedly divined the

existence somewhere, and which life as men know it simply does not afford nor anywhere foresee.

我希望生活中有美。我曾在落日余晖、 春日树林和女人的眼中看见过美，可如今与这些光彩邂逅已不再令我激动。

我期盼的是生 命本身之美，而非偶然降临的美的瞬间。我觉得很久以前我生活行为中也充溢着美，那时我尚年轻，

置身于一群远比当今姑娘更为友善可爱的姑娘之中，置身于一个如今已消失的世界。时下女人不过是多 少显得有几

分姿色，

而据我所知，她 们最靓丽的容颜都经过煞费苦心的设色缚彩。但我希望这在我心中涌动并期盼的生命能绽

放出自身之美，纵然其美丽会转瞬即逝。比如蝴蝶的一生不过翩然一瞬，但在这翩然一瞬间，其美丽得以完善，其

生命得以完美。我羡慕一生中有这种美丽闪烁。可我最接近我理想生活的行为只是付账单 一丝不苟，对妻子相敬如

宾，捐善款恰宜至当，而这些无论如何也远远不够。当然，还有 我那些书，在我自己撰写以及我可随意翻阅的他人

所撰写的书中，都有美“封藏”于万千 书页之间。但我与生俱来的这种欲望并不满足于在纸上写美或从书中读美。

简而言之，我 所迷恋的那种无暇之美，那种天下诗人在忐忑中发现存在于某处的美，那种世人所知的凡尘生活无法

赐予也无法预见的美。

And tenderness, too

—

but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life? Well, to my finding human beings do not

like one another. Indeed, why should they, being rational creatures? All babies have a temporary lien on tenderness, of course:

and therefrom children too receive a dwindling income, although on looking back, you will recollect that your childhood was

upon the whole a lonesome and much put- upon period. But all grown persons ineffably distrust one another. In courtship, I

grant you, there is a passing aberration which often mimics tenderness, sometimes as the result of honest delusion, but more

frequently as an ambuscade in the endless struggle between man and woman. Married people are not ever tender with each

other,

you

will

notice:

if

they

are

mutually

civil

it

is

much:

and

physical

contacts

apart,

their

relation

is

that

of

a

very

moderate intimacy. My own wife, at all events, I find an unfailing mystery, a Sphinx whose secrets I assume to be not worth

knowing: and, as I am mildly thankful to narrate, she knows very little about me, and evinces as to my affairs no morbid

interest. That is not to assert that if I were ill she would not nurse me through any imaginable contagion, nor that if she were

drowning I would not plunge in after her, whatever my delinquencies at swimming: what I mean is that, pending such high

crises, we tolerate each other amicably, and never think of doing more. And from our blood-kin we grow apart inevitably.

Their lives and their interests are no longer the same as ours, and when we meet it is with conscious reservations and much

manufactured

talk.

Besides,

they

know

things

about

us

which

we

resent.

And

with

the

rest

of

my

fellows,

I

find

that

convention orders all our dealings, even with children, and we do and say what seems more or less expected. And I know that

we distrust one another all the while, and instinctively conceal or misrepresent our actual thoughts and emotions when there

is no very apparent need. Personally, I do not like human beings because I am not aware, upon the whole, of any generally

distributed

qualities

which

entitle

them

as

a

race

to

admiration

and

affection.

But

toward

people

in

books

—

such

as

Mrs.

Millamant,

and

Helen

of

Troy,

and

Bella

Wilfer,

and

Mé

lusine,

and

Beatrix

Esmond

—

I

may

intelligently

overflow

with

tenderness and caressing words, in part because they deserve it, and in part because I know they will not suspect me of being

“queer” or of having ulterior motives.

我也渴望柔情——但对生活如此奢求难道不 是自作多情？我发现世人彼此间从不相互喜欢。的确，作为理性动物，

他们为何要相互喜 欢呢？婴儿当然都有权得到短期柔情贷款，而且在童年时期还会有逐日递减的柔情进账，然而你

< br>回忆往事时就会发现，童年大体上是一段孤独寂寞且屡屡受骗的时期。但成人都莫可名状地相互猜疑。我承 认，男

女求爱时会有一时间的失常，而这种失常往往装扮成柔情蜜意，因此有时还让人误 以为是真情，但更多时候会变成

男女间无休止争斗的伏笔。你会注意到，已婚男女通常不 会柔情缱绻，双方能以礼相待就不错了，除两性身体接触

外，夫妻关系往往都不愠不火。 以我妻子为例，我横竖都觉得她就像斯芬克司，一个永远也猜不透的谜，而我想也

没必要 去探究她那些秘密。并且就像我并无欣慰地述说的一样，她对我同样知之甚少，对我的私事也没有表现出任

何病态的兴趣。但这并非说一旦我罹病，她会因惧怕传染而置我于不顾，也并非说万一她溺水， 我会因不善游泳而

不下水施救。我的意思是说，除非到紧要关头，我俩会彼此容忍，和睦 相处，但绝不会想到更进一步。我们与亲属

的关系也势必日渐疏远。因各自生活已不同， 彼此情趣已相异，故见面时存心话说三分且多说套话。再说他们还知

晓我们不想被别人抖 露的底细。至于其他熟人，甚至包括未成年人，我发现彼此间交往全然是蹈常袭故，我们的所

言所行似乎都不会超出对方之所料。我知道我们始终都互不信任，虽然有时毫不必要，我们仍本能地隐藏或伪 装真

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实的思想感情。就我个人而言，我不喜欢人类，因为从总体上看，我不知这个物种有何共同的品质使其值得被人 钦

慕。但对书中那些人——例如米拉曼特夫人、特洛伊的海伦、贝拉·威尔弗、比阿特丽 克丝·埃斯蒙德等——我却

能不失理性地满怀柔情，

表达一腔爱 慕之意，

这一则是因为她们值得我爱慕，

二则是因为我知道她们 不会怀疑我

“变

态”或别有用心。