《蝸?！? 瑪麗安娜·穆爾

【To A Snall】- Marianne Moore

「美國/1887 - 1972」

假設(shè)“提煉與簡潔是風(fēng)格的第一要義”

你的確言之有物

向內(nèi)的語流亦如謙謙君子

兼具表現(xiàn)力與謙遜之美德

我知

這并非依賴于文海超市收購的便于套用的精辭麗藻

亦非行文中偶然所見的名言哲句

風(fēng)格之精粹

在于其被隱匿的原則

“一目便知”猶如“穿鞋過河”

自以為明明白白

實(shí)則一物也未觸及

“無立足之地”方才是獲取結(jié)論之法門

某刻

顱骨后方側(cè)腦室的頂骨枕角陣陣風(fēng)起云涌

這即是：“理解”

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【To A Snail】

(By Marianne Moore)

If “compression is the first grace of style,”

you have it. Contractility is a virtue

as modesty is a virtue.

It is not the acquisition of any one thing

that is able to adorn,

or the incidental quality that occurs

as a concomitant of something well said,

that we value in style,

but the principle that is hid:

in the absence of feet, “a method of conclusions”;

“a knowledge of principles,”

in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.