Opinionator
Underwater, Feeling Our Ocean Origins
By DIANE ACKERMAN
Exploring a beautiful, teeming underwater world that can't be put into words.
1997年翻譯Willian Scherkenbach的書 已引一段
A Natural History of the Senses (1990) 此書當時已經有漢文本
接下來她的幾本書也都有翻譯本
Non-Fiction
- Twilight of the Tenderfoot (1980)
- On Extended Wings (1985)
- A Natural History of the Senses (1990)
- The Moon by Whale Light, and Other Adventures Among Bats and Crocodilains, Penguins and Whales (1991)
- A Natural History of Love (1994)
- The Rarest of the Rare (1995)
- A Slender Thread (1997)
- Deep Play (1999)
- Cultivating Delight (2002)
- An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (2004)
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (2007)
By DIANE ACKERMAN
Reviewed by D. T. MAX
Reviewed by D. T. MAX
In Warsaw during World War II, Jan and Antonina Zabinski saved 300 Jews.
- Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day (2009)
- One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing (2011)
Children's books
- Monk Seal Hideaway (1995)
- Bats: Shadows in the Night (1997)
- Animal Sense (poetry) (2003)
2005.8
試譯述：《氣味、記憶與愛欲》一小段；rankism釋題
下段黛安‧艾克曼（Diane Ackerman，1948 —）的新作《氣味、記憶與愛欲》之翻譯還大有改善的空間，
希望朋友幫忙評論一番。【HC：沒反應，自己試手氣。】
Chapter 13: What Is a Memory?
記憶：心靈的火花
HC：記憶究竟
What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.
我並不知道由後頭追趕而來的是那一種未來，但過去在眼前展開，主宰了眼前的一切。
HC翻譯：我委實不知道隨之而來的未來是吉是兇。然而，逝者如斯，盡展於眼前，讓我心中無它。
-- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Like tiny islands on the horizon, they can vanish in rough seas. Even in calm weather, their coral gradually erodes, pickled by salt and heat. Yet they form the shoals of a life. Some offer safe lagoons and murmuring trees. Others crawl with pirates and reptiles. Together, they connect a self with the mainland and society. Plot their trail and a mercurial past becomes visible.
它們就像海平線那方的小小島嶼，隨時可能消失在洶湧的波濤之中，即使風平浪靜，它們的珊瑚也會被鹽醃熱炙，而逐漸腐蝕。然而它們卻形成了生命的沙洲，有些成了安全的潟湖，以及呢喃的樹木；有些則和海盜與爬蟲一起爬行。它們一起構成了有大陸和群聚的自我；揣想它們的蹤跡，就會看見反覆無常的過去。
HC翻譯：記憶猶如地平線盡處的諸小島，隨時可為洶湧的波濤滔盡。即使天氣無大風浪，它們上頭的珊瑚也會逐漸腐蝕，飽受海水的鹽醃和熱氣的火炙。然而正是它們形成了我們這輩子的沙洲群。其中有些有安全的潟湖，並有群樹呢喃。有些則盡是海盜與爬蟲橫行。這些羅列諸島將我這一自我與其主要大陸和社會連接起來。將它們的蹤跡描繪出來，變化無常的過去就有跡可尋。
2006
追憶
Deep Play
有許多字眼的記憶相當美的。今天讀報：
「
…….法國哲人羅蘭‧巴特說，足球賽是一個表達民族感情的地方，
我看足球，因為足球是
deep play，不但每一隊，每一個球員，每一個民族，
這
deep play她在文中已稍為解釋：「把靈魂和肉體抵押在那顆球上，
這深戲（
deep play），有專書Diane Ackerman
《心靈深戲（Deep Play
）莊安祺譯，台北：時報文化，1999】（我提它的文已毀）。
不過我印象最深的還有我們約
2000年的讀書會，葉老師帶我們讀
Clifford Geertz的『文化的闡釋』，其末篇為
"深層遊戲：Bali
島鬥雞的描述(Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight)"
。這篇一開始引Bateson夫婦的名著。
今天查網頁，才知道在
1997年康乃爾大學校友（Missy Globerman '99
）就訪問Diane Ackerman
【這著名的散文家的作品在時報都有翻譯；『戴明修煉II』
Diane Ackerman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia
Diane Ackerman is serious about play.
"It is exquisitely human to play; we relish and require it to feel whole. It is our refuge from ordinary life," she told a David L. Call Alumni Auditorium audience.
In her July 9 Summer Session lecture titled "Rapture, Ecstasy and Play," Ackerman, a Cornell alumna, poet, essayist and naturalist, enveloped the audience in her world by offering prose about love and personal anecdotes to explain her perspective on life's special moments, which she described as "deep play."
"The language of play has always fascinated me," said the author of A Natural History of the Senses and A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis.
According to Ackerman, "Every element of the human saga depends on play. Even language is a playing with words," she said. "We, as human beings, require a poetic version of life. All human beings of all ages and all cultures use the elemental poetry of everyday language."
Swimming with dolphins and communing with nature, she said, led her to the question, "What are we to make of dolphins and humans playing together?" The answer, she found, is that humans and animals alike understand play.
"Play is ingrained in the matrix of childhood and we take it for granted," Ackerman said. Though children rejoice in play, adults have a "deeper, transcendent form of play," she said.
The uncertainty and illusion of play can take place in countless venues, she suggested. "We can play anywhere that is set off from reality, whether it be a playground, a field, a church or a garage."
Ackerman explained there are many ways in which adults engage in deep play.
"Deep play doesn't have to do with an activity, like shallow play. It has to do with attitude or an extraordinarily intense state."
Furthermore, she said, "Deep play is an absence of mental noise -- liberating, soothing, and exciting. . . .We spend our lives in pursuit of those moments of feeling whole, or being in the moment of deep play."
The idea of deep play, Ackerman said, was originated by the philosopher/utilitarian Jeremy Bentham. However, she said, "he despised it and thought it was irrational." He felt that what could be lost far outweighed what could be gained.
Ancient people had their own forms of deep play, Ackerman said, and termed deep play to be rapture and ecstasy. "Rapture is being seized by force ... rape, ravage, usurp," she explained. "Ecstasy is a Greek word meaning a symbol of standing, or to stand, outside oneself. When you are experiencing ecstasy, you fly out of your mind and watch the known world dwindle in the distance."
Ackerman explained that one of the manifestations of deep play is love. "Love is a cult of two, full of mysticism, where you romp with your playmate and there is a feeling of ecstasy. When the couple breaks up, their secret world is shattered, leaving the partner disavowed. The illusion and the game are over."
Another form of deep play can come when one is in a moment of extreme danger, she explained. When Ackerman fell while mountain climbing and had to climb down with three broken ribs, she was in that state, she said. "I had to muzzle into life and drink from the source."
"Deep play means no analysis, no explanation, no promises, no goals, no worries. You are completely open to the drama of life that may unfold."
.org/wiki/Diane_Ackerman - Cached
Diane Ackerman
(born October 7, 1948 in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American author,
poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural History of the ...
By Missy Globerman '99
Diane Ackerman is serious about play.
"It is exquisitely human to play; we relish and require it to feel whole. It is our refuge from ordinary life," she told a David L. Call Alumni Auditorium audience.
In her July 9 Summer Session lecture titled "Rapture, Ecstasy and Play," Ackerman, a Cornell alumna, poet, essayist and naturalist, enveloped the audience in her world by offering prose about love and personal anecdotes to explain her perspective on life's special moments, which she described as "deep play."
"The language of play has always fascinated me," said the author of A Natural History of the Senses and A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis.
According to Ackerman, "Every element of the human saga depends on play. Even language is a playing with words," she said. "We, as human beings, require a poetic version of life. All human beings of all ages and all cultures use the elemental poetry of everyday language."
Swimming with dolphins and communing with nature, she said, led her to the question, "What are we to make of dolphins and humans playing together?" The answer, she found, is that humans and animals alike understand play.
"Play is ingrained in the matrix of childhood and we take it for granted," Ackerman said. Though children rejoice in play, adults have a "deeper, transcendent form of play," she said.
The uncertainty and illusion of play can take place in countless venues, she suggested. "We can play anywhere that is set off from reality, whether it be a playground, a field, a church or a garage."
Ackerman explained there are many ways in which adults engage in deep play.
"Deep play doesn't have to do with an activity, like shallow play. It has to do with attitude or an extraordinarily intense state."
Furthermore, she said, "Deep play is an absence of mental noise -- liberating, soothing, and exciting. . . .We spend our lives in pursuit of those moments of feeling whole, or being in the moment of deep play."
The idea of deep play, Ackerman said, was originated by the philosopher/utilitarian Jeremy Bentham. However, she said, "he despised it and thought it was irrational." He felt that what could be lost far outweighed what could be gained.
Ancient people had their own forms of deep play, Ackerman said, and termed deep play to be rapture and ecstasy. "Rapture is being seized by force ... rape, ravage, usurp," she explained. "Ecstasy is a Greek word meaning a symbol of standing, or to stand, outside oneself. When you are experiencing ecstasy, you fly out of your mind and watch the known world dwindle in the distance."
Ackerman explained that one of the manifestations of deep play is love. "Love is a cult of two, full of mysticism, where you romp with your playmate and there is a feeling of ecstasy. When the couple breaks up, their secret world is shattered, leaving the partner disavowed. The illusion and the game are over."
Another form of deep play can come when one is in a moment of extreme danger, she explained. When Ackerman fell while mountain climbing and had to climb down with three broken ribs, she was in that state, she said. "I had to muzzle into life and drink from the source."
"Deep play means no analysis, no explanation, no promises, no goals, no worries. You are completely open to the drama of life that may unfold."
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她的第一稱呼是詩人
詩集有
Poetry
- The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral (1976)
- Wife of Light (1978)
- Lady Faustus (1983)
- Reverse Thunder (verse play) (1988)
- Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems (1991)
- Animal Sense (2000)
- Origami Bridges (2002) 這本書我翻過 約102首是她接受精神分析的一年半中每天寫詩並與分析師電話討論 所以是1/5 有的發表在10種刊物中 很難介紹她的愛欲....等
- I Praise My Destroyer (2005)
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