Doozie

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Doozie
Albert Goldbarth
 
       "A bun in her oven? Geez Louise, isn't that 
 malarkey（胡说）? Estelle? Miss Goody-Two-Shoes?" 
       "I thought it was bunkum too, 
 when I heard it. Really: you coulda knocked me 
 for a loop. But Alice told me, and she's jake." 
 Alice: the provenance1（出处，起源）, the gatekeeper. So it wasn't all hooey. 
 It was the real goods. Aunt Ruby 
 hadn't shown up for her visit last month and, 
 well, Estelle was in a pickle2, was between the proverbial 
 rock and its cousin the hard place, friendless, 
 paddleless up that famous defecatory（排粪的） creek3 and down 
 in the dumps, and while vernacular4（地方的） studies 
 
isn't my speed, I love the way we used to talk. 
 We also used to say the autumn light is lambent（轻轻摇曳的） 
 on the lake top, and the waves display a heraldic curl 
 as in halcyon5 days . . . and that was also a fine, 
 fine thing to say. Or that some multibody hid 
 his second exoneural projecto-self in a pocket of subspace, 
 masking it over with molecules6 of landscape-sim 
 . . . that's how they talk in sci-fi-ville, while over 
 in the empirical records of science, someone is saying 
 the reagent（试剂） deliquesces although 
 in its previous state it underwent resorption. All 
 of the languages are appropriate to their purposes -- are 
 
fine. Jack7 Gilbert's poem in honor of wabi 
 -- that's the Japanese word for, roughly, 
 finding a beauty in ruin that one can only 
 find in ruin -- reminds us that to lack the word 
 for a concept is really to lack the concept. 
 Let the word occur, though, and then suddenly 
 in a fingersnap, in a trice（转眼之间）, and like a bolt out of the blue, 
 I can see my friend for whom Estelle is an avatar 
 in stanza8 one, and the formerly9 unacknowledged 
 stores of dignity and perseverance 
 that carried her through the shame of the abortion 
 -- her wabi -- flower forth10. One story goes 
 
she fucked up big-time, Mick was a saint but 
nooo, she had to get knocked up by an asshole 
 like Kenny. Another story: her mind is part dissociative, and 
 so requires positive reinforcement from multiple sources. 
 Actually they're the same story, only told in different languages. 
 Or actually because they're different languages, they're 
 different stories. In mine, she's just returned 
 from the doctor, and needs to tell Mick. She's sitting 
 surrounded by thousands of happy memories -- the light 
 through the louvers is lambent -- but we all know 
 how the story goes: life is jim-dandy, a peacheroo, then 
 words get spoken, and overnight the whole world goes kablooey.

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1 provenance ZBTyR     
n.出处；起源
参考例句：
  • Kato was fully aware of the provenance of these treasures.加藤完全清楚这些珍宝的来源。
  • This plant's provenance is Asiadj.这种植物原产于亚洲。
2 pickle mSszf     
n.腌汁，泡菜；v.腌，泡
参考例句：
  • Mother used to pickle onions.妈妈过去常腌制洋葱。
  • Meat can be preserved in pickle.肉可以保存在卤水里。
3 creek 3orzL     
n.小溪，小河，小湾
参考例句：
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
4 vernacular ULozm     
adj.地方的，用地方语写成的；n.白话；行话；本国语；动植物的俗名
参考例句：
  • The house is built in a vernacular style.这房子按当地的风格建筑。
  • The traditional Chinese vernacular architecture is an epitome of Chinese traditional culture.中国传统民居建筑可谓中国传统文化的缩影。
5 halcyon 8efx7     
n.平静的，愉快的
参考例句：
  • He yearned for the halcyon day sof his childhood.他怀念儿时宁静幸福的日子。
  • He saw visions of a halcyon future.他看到了将来的太平日子的幻境。
6 molecules 187c25e49d45ad10b2f266c1fa7a8d49     
分子( molecule的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The structure of molecules can be seen under an electron microscope. 分子的结构可在电子显微镜下观察到。
  • Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules. 在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。
7 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克
参考例句：
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
8 stanza RFoyc     
n.（诗）节，段
参考例句：
  • We omitted to sing the second stanza.我们漏唱了第二节。
  • One young reporter wrote a review with a stanza that contained some offensive content.一个年轻的记者就歌词中包含有攻击性内容的一节写了评论。
9 formerly ni3x9     
adv.从前，以前
参考例句：
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
10 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前；向外，往外
参考例句：
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

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