<p class="ql-block">Schopenhauer's Laughter</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">by Latifa Harbaoui, Algeria</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Schopenhauer's laughter!</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">The wretched can pass beyond a dead, senile pair of lips,</p><p class="ql-block">can grant weight to peals of laughter,</p><p class="ql-block">can search for a joy dried out and cured, and that's enough.</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">But with a tear they draw the coffin of language closer to the meaning carried on the shoulders of the namer.</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Plato says to his teacher Socrates: why did you never tell life, I love you?</p><p class="ql-block">Why do the shadows loiter, incomplete?</p><p class="ql-block">Why does your face always claim its features are finished?</p><p class="ql-block">That the spring of the ideal has run dry?</p><p class="ql-block">That beauty has no identity?</p><p class="ql-block">That Kant is still in his bed for some purpose,</p><p class="ql-block">sleeping awake to decipher the grave?</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Why did the child who read him grow up without knowing journalism?</p><p class="ql-block">Why did the informant steal Nietzsche's fingerprint and alter the substance of the meanings?</p><p class="ql-block">Why doesn't the hammer mean: let us destroy everything?</p><p class="ql-block">Why did the ontologist forget the plan of reconciliation</p><p class="ql-block">and leave the text wounded?</p><p class="ql-block">Why did Gadamer leave consciousness impoverished?</p><p class="ql-block">Why does the self not grieve for itself?</p><p class="ql-block">Why does it find comfort in its own anxiety,</p><p class="ql-block">in essences butting horns against each other?</p><p class="ql-block">Why does Sartre return without his ancient dread?</p><p class="ql-block">And why did we laugh in the very moment the wolf devoured the conscience?</p> <p class="ql-block">叔本华的笑</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">阿尔及利亚 拉蒂法·哈尔布维 作</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">叔本华的笑！</p><p class="ql-block">苦难之人能越过衰老死寂的双唇，</p><p class="ql-block">赋予阵阵狂笑沉甸甸的分量，</p><p class="ql-block">寻觅那份风干封存的欢愉，仅此足矣。</p><p class="ql-block">可一滴泪水，便将语言的棺木拉近命名者肩头承载的深意。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">柏拉图问他的老师苏格拉底：</p><p class="ql-block">你为何从未对生命说我爱你？</p><p class="ql-block">为何虚影徘徊，始终残缺？</p><p class="ql-block">为何你的面容总宣称轮廓已然圆满？</p><p class="ql-block">理想之泉已然枯竭？</p><p class="ql-block">美没有专属的本真？</p><p class="ql-block">康德卧床不起，究竟意欲何为，</p><p class="ql-block">清醒地沉眠，去解读坟墓的奥义？</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">那个读过他著作的孩童，长大为何全然不懂何为纪实？</p><p class="ql-block">是谁窃取尼采的指纹，篡改词义的内核？</p><p class="ql-block">铁锤本应昭示“摧毁一切”，为何未能如此？</p><p class="ql-block">本体论学者何以遗忘和解的蓝图，</p><p class="ql-block">徒留满是伤痕的文本？</p><p class="ql-block">伽达默尔为何令意识贫瘠空洞？</p><p class="ql-block">自我为何从不为自身悲恸？</p><p class="ql-block">反倒在自身的焦灼里寻得慰藉，</p><p class="ql-block">在诸般本质相互冲撞的对峙之中？</p><p class="ql-block">萨特归来，为何褪去旧日的惶惧？</p><p class="ql-block">而当豺狼吞噬良知的那一刻，我们为何放声大笑？</p>