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作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
{ didn't make note of the author, only Cambridge, Mass. Oct 1971}
http://kashpureff.org/susan/txt/TheTreeOfLife.txt
The advances of science are, in a way, like the acts of
prestidigitators; when the performance is over, the magician shows his
empty hands to tell us that his wonders were make of thin air: there was
nothing behind them. Physics revealed to us that matter was neither a
substance nor a thing but a relation: matter as we once knew it vanished,
as if though a conjuror's trick. Genetics is now doing the same with life.
Matter and life have become words no less insubstantial than soul and
spirit. What we call life is a system of signals and responses, a
communications network that is also a transformation circuit. In the
communications process the signals sent out are transformed, and this
transformation is analogous to what we call translation. Every
transformation is , in a manner of speaking, equivalent to a translation
provoking a response that in turn must be transalted. The system may be
thought of as a circuit of translations/transformations - a chain of
metaphors that becomes a series of equivalents. The analogy with language
is perfect - and with language at its extreme of perfection, the poem. As
in a poem of poems, each thing is consonant with every other; each thing
-while not ceasing to be itself - is other, and all of them, though
different, are the same thing. The system is a world of equivalents and
correspondences. But there is a moment at which the spiral of
signal/transformation/response is interrupted: death and life are
correlative terms at the level of the cells, but not in my consciousness.
For me, death is death and life is life. Rupture, dissonance,
noncommunication, irony: the universe appeared to us to be a solar system
of correspondences, then suddenly, in the very center, the sun blacks out.
The text becomes illegible and there is a gap: human beings. The only
beings who hear (or think they hear) the poem of the universe do not hear
themselves in this poem - except as silence.
作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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增强世人对时空及不同语言参造系的认识？
