第77页 我们大脑的力量 --从图画的演化说开去

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The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm 

The house was quiet and the world was calm. 
The reader became the book; and summer night 

Was like the conscious being of the book. 
The house was quiet and the world was calm. 

The words were spoken as if there was no book, 
Except that the reader leaned above the page, 

Wanted to lean, wanted much to be 
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom 

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. 
The house was quiet because it had to be. 

The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind: 
The access of perfection to the page. 

And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world, 
In which there is no other meaning, itself 

Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself 
Is the reader leaning late and reading there. 

(from "Harmonium," 1923) 

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居室寂静而世事安宁 
读者变成了书本。 

夏日的夜晚就像书本的灵性， 
居室寂静而世事安宁。 

词句脱口而出，仿佛根本没有书， 
有的只是书页上方斜着的读者。 

他想靠过去，他渴望成为渊博的学者， 
对他而言，书是真切的存在。 

对他而言，夏夜就像是完美的思想， 
居室寂静，因为不能不寂静。 

寂静是书中含义的一部分，寂静是读者的思想的一部分， 
这正是通向书页的完美路径。