疼痛的精确性和欢乐的模糊性

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疼痛的精确性和欢乐的模糊性。我在想
人们是怎样精确地在医院里向大夫描述他们的疼痛。
即便那些还没有学会读写的人也懂得精确:
这种是一跳一跳的痛,这种是
扭伤的痛,这种是咬痛,这种是灼痛还有
这种是刀割似的痛而这个
是一种隐痛。在这儿。精确地说就在这儿,对,对。

欢乐却把一切弄得模糊。我曾听人说过
在爱情和狂欢的夜晚之后:真是太棒了,
我都飞上七重云霄了。但即便是太空人漂浮
在外层空间,拴在飞船上,他却只能说,真棒,
真奇妙,我无法形容。
欢乐的模糊性和疼痛的精确性——
我要用那种剧痛的精确性来描述
幸福以及模糊的欢乐。我学会在各种疼痛中说话。

作者 / [以色列] 耶胡达·阿米亥
翻译 / 罗池

 

The Precision of Pain and the blurriness of joy

The precision of pain and the blurriness of joy. I’m thinking
how precise people are when they describe their pain in a doctor’s office.
Even those who haven’t learned to read and write are precise:
“This one’s a throbbing pain, that one’s a wrenching pain,
this one gnaws, that one burns, this is a sharp pain
and that––a dull one. Right here. Precisely here,
yes, yes.” Joy blurs everything. I’ve heard people say
after nights of love and feasting, “It was great,
I was in seventh heaven.” Even the spaceman who floated
in outer space, tethered to a spaceship, could say only, “Great,
wonderful, I have no words.”
The blurriness of joy and the precision of pain —
I want to describe, with a sharp pain’s precision, happiness
and blurry joy. I learned to speak among the pains.

Yehuda amichai

 

欢乐在多数情况下都是难以描摹的,人类尽管为欢乐的各种形态制造了丰富的词汇,但总显泛泛,隔靴搔痒,不够“鞭辟入里”,不够“一针见血”,不够“见血封喉”,不够“一鞭一条痕”。你看,凡是表示精确和切中要害的词汇基本都和疼痛有关。

疼痛说到根本,可能是人与世界发生关系时一种最初的交流。作为一种反应,它深植于基因与语言。疼痛总是具体的,切肤的,因而也是精确的,它甚至被转换为精确的代名词。

疼痛和欢乐的关系,是果核与果肉的关系。欢乐是疼痛的肉,疼痛是欢乐的骨。

生活的本质可能是这样——只有时不时有一点疼痛的骚扰,才能有那么一点点安全感,自我意识的小火苗才能一次次被逗燃。 学会在疼痛中说话,对疼痛的描述越精确,那模糊的欢乐也就越清晰。

荐诗 / 流马
2013/12/28

 

题图/ Amanda Jasnowski

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