普里斯特作品
2021-11-12董继平
◎董继平 译
沉默正在降临
此刻在野性的海洋上,越过阿根廷的潘帕斯草原。如果你在亚特兰大,如果你在柏林、多伦多、蒙特利尔,唉,一种沉默就正在降临。我不知道它是什么。它可能是一种没有实质的风——然而它充满了死鸟的鸣叫,充满了土著人的哭喊,它穿过美洲大草原向上移动。它到处下陷——水牛的沉默,野牛和鲸鱼的沉默。有朝一日,这种沉默很快就会走向我们,我们起初不会注意它——在家里处于这辽阔的沉默中,但然后它会持续一小时,而我们每个人,仿佛置身于梦中,声音或言语无法企及,我们将在恐怖中朝着我们的斧子无声的反响、我们的机器沉默的运转而做出手势。喷气式飞机将飞过,不会有尖锐刺耳的声音。收音机将发光发热,但不会有静电干扰,不会有那将从痛苦中抬头盯着我们、被压碎的动物发出的叫声,被刺伤的男人迷失在沉默中的叫喊,被强奸的女人被吸入沉默的尖叫,以及诞生在一个无声世界中的婴儿——那狗吠未被注意就响起的世界,那号角毫无预兆就吹响的世界,即便是钟也缺乏一小时无法阻止的稳定的滴答声的世界。
SILENCE IS COMING
Right now over wild seas,across the pampas of Argentina.If you are in Atlanta,if you are in Berlin,Toronto,Montreal,alas,a silence is coming.I don’t know what it is.It may be a wind without substance——but it is full of the cries of dead birds,full of the cry of the natives and it is moving up through the prairies of America.It is sinking in everywhere——a silence of buffalo,a silence of bison and whale.One day soon the silence will move over us and we will not at first notice it——at home in the vastness of the silence,but then it will continue for an hour and each of us,as though in a dream,beyond the reach of sound or speech,will gesture in horror at the soundless reverberation of our axes,the silent working of our machinery.The jets will go by and there will be no shrill sound.The radio will glow but there will be no static and no cry from the crushed animals who will stare up from their pain at us,the stabbed man’s cry lost in the silence,the raped woman’s scream absorbed in the silence,and infants born into a soundless world——a world where the dog’s bark goes unheeded,where the bugles blow without warning and where even the clocks lack for an hour their steady and unstoppable ticking.
蛾 子
现在你卡在你大腿的蛛网中,在露水中显得很美,我的躯体深色的苍蝇,我将宽宽地展开翅膀,在这里,我们将永远被旋风和地震结合。我的爱将在黑暗中展开,给你躯体的各个部分都涂上深深的、擦不掉的油,在你的海岸线上进来——鲸鱼的黑色圈子和蠕动,就像早晨那样进来,姑娘,展开我的光芒神圣的涌动,让它就像那使眼睛上瘾的明亮的麻醉品。……
