
炸脖龙
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll · 初版 1871 年
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为什么值得读
- 即使半数词语系虚构也能让人本能意会
- 用无意义的声音唤起强烈的情感与意象
- 韵律鲜明节奏欢快,非常适合大声朗读
插图将取自 Through the Looking Glass 的这首经典荒诞诗置于中世纪背景之下。
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Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll · 初版 1871 年
插图将取自 Through the Looking Glass 的这首经典荒诞诗置于中世纪背景之下。
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我觉得最好的反例之一就是 Lewis Carroll 的《炸脖龙》(The Jabberwocky)。如果名字(以及更普遍的英语单词)本身不传达任何意义,而仅仅是一个大型 fuzzy hash table 里的 key,那这首诗就彻底让人摸不着头脑了。然而,尽管……
I think one of the best counterexamples is The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. If names (and more generally English words) conveyed no meaning on their own and were simply keys in a large fuzzy hash table, the poem would be completely opaque. However, despite…
Lewis Carroll 的《Jabberwocky》绝对算最具代表性的例子。里面一半是自造的词,但每个以英语为母语的人本能上都知道它在表达什么。
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll has to be the definitive example I feel. Half of it is in a made up language but every English person instinctively knows what it means.
我一直很喜欢 Lewis Carroll 的《Jabberwocky》。它充满了富有感染力的胡话,能从毫无意义的发音中营造出绝妙的意象和氛围。而诗歌到头来不就是这么回事么!’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves……
I've always enjoyed the Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. It is full of emotive gibberish that creates wonderful imagery and feeling out of meaningless sounds. Which is all poetry really is in the end! ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves…
……头脑迟早……会派上用场。人太容易一头扎进整套数学结构里,反而不去接触真正的事物。所以不如从欢闹荒诞的开始,大声读出来!比如 Lewis Carroll 的《Jabberwocky》。我还没见过读这首诗不笑出声的人。还有 Isherwood 的《The Common Cormorant》。这类诗歌用强烈的结构和韵律直接砸向你。Limericks 也是,……
…mind is a boon...eventually. It's so easy to dig into the mathematical structure of it all and not deal with the actual thing. So start with the rollicking and absurd, and read it aloud!. Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, for example. I have yet to meet someone that doesn't get a grin out of that. Isherwood, 'The Common Cormorant'. These are poems that beat you over the head with their structure and meter. Limericks,…
英语里一个绝妙的“asemic”(非语义)范例就是 Lewis Carroll 的《The Jabberwocky》,它大部分由不知所云的词组成,但在说英语的人读来,它显然就是用英语写的。这完全是另一种层面的 abstraction/representation……
A beautiful “asemic” example in English is “The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll which consists mostly of nonsensical words but when read by an English speaker is clearly written in the English language. A different level of abstraction/representation from this…
……在同一句话里提“Java”和“document-object-model”、那些完全依靠学术权威来确立合法性的知识分子、那些试图把智力标准化的知识分子。最后,我把大师 Lewis Carroll 的诗《Jabberwocky》留给大家。Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws……
…'Java' and 'document-object-model' in the same sentence, the intellectuals who base validity solely on academic authority, the intellectuals who try to standardize intellect. I leave you with the poem Jabberwocky, by the master Lewis Carroll. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws…