Jamesian 的詞源

“屬於或以James的模式”，1875年指的是美國哲學家和實用主義倡導者威廉James（1842-1910）；1905年指的是他的兄弟、美國流亡小說家亨利James（1843-1916）。

[T]he long sentences piling themselves up in elaborate phrase after phrase, the lightning incision, the pauses, the slightly shaking admonitory gesture with its ‘wu-await a little, wait a little, something will come’; blague and benignity and the weight of so many years’ careful, incessant labour of minute observation always there to enrich the talk. I had heard it but seldom, yet it is all unforgettable. […] No man who has not lived on both sides of the Atlantic can well appraise Henry James; his death marks the end of a period. [Ezra Pound, from “Henry James,” Little Review, August 1918]

[那]長句子在精心雕琢的短語中堆積起來，閃電般的切割，停頓，微微顫抖的勸誡手勢伴隨著“稍等一下，稍等一下，會有東西來的”；玩笑和仁慈，以及多年來小心翼翼、持續不斷的觀察勞動的重量，總是豐富了談話。我很少聽到它，但這一切都令人難忘。[…] 沒有在大西洋兩岸生活過的人無法真正評價亨利·詹姆斯；他的去世標誌著一個時代的結束。[埃兹拉·庞德，來自《亨利·詹姆斯》，《小評論》，1918年8月]