Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Fan Jinghua: Law of Impossibility

  Law of Impossibility
      For Gloria
As summer is coming
Let’s blindfold ourselves
And prepare to eat fruits only
Tasting their ripening from sourness to sweetness
Let’s hear the sounds that do not cry out for hearing
In the time of dead silence before the sounds implode
Let’s do substitution drills
Such as “A rabbit falls into Alice hole”
Let’s forget there are laws of impossibility
And switch summer with fall
Then we may prove better than bats
In vision and hearing
        Dec. 18, 2007

  不可能律
     致Gloria
当这个夏天来临
让我们蒙住双眼
准备只以水果为生
从酸涩吃到香甜
让我们倾听那些从没喊出来的声音
在所有声音内爆之前的死寂中
我们做替换练习
例如“一只兔子掉进了爱丽丝的洞穴”
但愿我们忘记这世上有不可能律
将盛夏换成金秋
然后我们或许能够媲美蝙蝠
       2007年12月18日

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