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[这是一个真实的故事]
[1929年 纽约]
[斯克里布纳之子公司] [出版社&书商 创立于1846年]
你应该读读这篇文章 Might want to read this one.
拜托请告诉我 它是隔行打的 Please tell me it's double-spaced.
真不走运 No such luck.
你怎么找到的？ Where did you get it?
一个叫艾琳·伯恩斯坦的女人 好像是个舞台设计师吧？ A woman named Aline Bernstein. The stage designer?
这个作家是她门徒 The author is her protege.
镇里的其他出版社 都不愿意出版它 Every other publisher in town has already turned it down.
- 写得好吗？ - 好？ - Is it any good? - Good?
并没有 No.
但是很特别 But it's unique.
- 那我看看吧 - 谢谢你 麦克斯 我欠你一个人情 - A quick look. - Thanks, Max. I'm in your debt.
乘六〇二到迦南的旅客 最后一次通知！ 602 to New Canaan, last call!
- 晚上好 皮特 - 就差你一个了 珀金斯先生 - Good evening, Pete. - All aboard, Mr. Perkins.
[《啊 迷失》] [托马斯·乌尔夫]
石块 叶片 A stone, a leaf...
一处尚未寻到的门 an unfound door...
在石中 叶间 门中 of a stone, a leaf, a door.
在所有被遗忘的面孔后面 And of all the forgotten faces.
谁曾真正知悉他的兄弟？ Which of us has known his brother?
谁曾洞识过他父亲的内心？ Which of us has looked into his father's heart?
谁不曾被遗忘在永远禁闭的囚室中？ Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent?
谁不是生而疏离 至死孑然？ Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
念念于心 我们无言地寻着那遗失的伟大语言 Remembering, speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language...
寻着那通往天国的莱恩恩德之地 the lost lane-end into heaven...
一石 一叶 一隐门 a stone, a leaf, an unfound door.
何处可寻？何时可至？ Where? When?
啊 迷失 O lost...
还有那与悲怆之风一同来到的 and by the wind grieved...
幽灵 魂归故地 ghost, come back again.
天意引领一个英国人与一个荷兰人相遇已足够奇怪了 A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough...
更别提从埃普索姆到宾夕法尼亚 but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania...
而后又走进那静矗于阿尔塔蒙特中的山谷中了 and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont...
那循着日出时公鸡高亢的啼鸣 over the proud coral cry of the cock...
还有天使温柔而坚毅的微笑之光 and the soft stone smile of an angel...
想必是被那晦暗不清的奇妙机遇所触碰了 is touched by that dark miracle of chance.
你好 爸爸！ Hello, Daddy!
你们好啊 小鸭子 Hello, ducks.
真是没劲 More rehearsal.
他连看都没看我们一眼 He didn't even notice us.
“不再惧怕太阳的曝晒” "Fear no more the heat o' the sun.
“不再惧怕寒冬的严寒” "Nor the furious winter's rages.
“你已完成世俗的苦工” "Thou thy worldly task hast done.
“领取工资 然后回家” "Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages.
“才子佳人…” "Golden lads and girls..."
吉米 我早就跟你说过了 我不喜欢看电影 Jimmy, I told you already. I don't like the movies.
我喜欢看书 I read books.
你根本就没认真听我讲话 You're not listening to me.
将我们的身外之物褪去 以赤子之身重回黑夜 Subtract us into nakedness and night again...
你会看见在四千年前的克里特岛 一切是如何开始的 and you shall see begin in Crete 4, 000 years ago...
而爱 有时如何湮灭在昨日的德克萨斯 the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
你好 爸爸 我看起来如何？ Hello, Daddy. How do I look?
- 很漂亮 - 下礼拜就要举行毕业舞会了 - Just beautiful. - It's the prom next week.
这么快？你们都成大姑娘了 Already? You're so old and not married yet.
噢 死亡让血肉之躯化为磐石！ O death in life that turns our men to stone!
噢 改变让我们超越神职！ O change that levels down our gods!
珀金斯先生 你还好吗？ Hello, Mr. Perkins?
你们爸爸不是很赞同我办戏剧俱乐部 Your father doesn't approve of my drama club.
爸爸 为什么你不愿意让妈妈重新做回演员？ Daddy, why don't you want Mama to be an actress again?
因为你们妈妈已经一把年纪了 要想出名太不现实了 Because limelight is not becoming to a woman of your mother's years.
- 噢 真是无礼！ - 噢！ - Oh, you rat! - Oh, boo!
你当然会这么说 因为你很享受现在充实的生活 Oh, yes, you save the whirlwind life of glamour for yourself.
每天忙于签书 参加聚会 Book signings and parties and the like...
而我们呢 只能慢慢发霉 被人遗忘在荒野之中 while we languish here in the wilderness.
- 我们这是生活在荒野吗？ - 听起来真刺激！ - Do we live in the wilderness? - How thrilling!
我们应该拿把刀防身！ We should get knives!
当然！大家觉得谁应该当海盗船长？ Yes, we should! Guess who will be the head pirate?
塞西尔 你之前有搭讪过其他女孩吗？ Cecil, did you ever pick up a girl before?
- 有吗？ - 没有 - Did you? - No.
我的天啊 Oh, goodness.
你是我所认识的最有趣的人 You're the funniest person I've ever seen.
等等 怎么了 塞西尔？ Hold it. What's the matter, Cecil?
我不知道 I don't know.
那是什么 塞西尔？ It stopped, Cecil!
- 不用等我 - 十点前回来 - Don't wait up. - Ten.
- 十一点 - 十点 - Eleven. - Ten.
讨厌 Swine.
他在一间小教堂 细心聆听来自一位 He had listened attentively to a sermon in chapel...
戴着假胡须的大二学生的布道 by a sophomore with false whiskers.
他对大学课程目录的考试内容 He had prepared studiously for an examination...
做了悉心的准备 on the contents of the college catalog.
十点前回来 Ten.
这篇文章可真长 That's a very long paragraph.
前面还有四页呢 It started four pages ago.
可怜的麦克斯韦尔 Poor Maxwell.
你现在还太年轻 不能谈恋爱 You're too young to be in love.
那要等到多少岁才行？ How old do you have to be?
四十岁 Forty.
或者 我应该说 Or, I should say...
他更像是一个 he was like a man...
站在山巅上的人 与其俯瞰他曾经生活的地方 who stands upon a hill above the town he has left...
心里想着“就快到家了” yet does not say "The town is near,"
不如选择眺望远方绵延的山脉 but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.
完结 The end.
天才捕手
好书啊 Mighty books.
好书 Mighty books.
- 有事吗？ - 该死 - May I help you? - God damn.
看看这些书啊 Look at all these books.
你可曾停下来 细细体会书中的每一句话 Do you ever stop to consider the pure man-sweat...
其间流淌着的作者的心血？ that went into each and every line?
信仰被一点点击垮 在黑暗中歇斯底里地叫喊 Little testaments of faith, screamed out in the dark night...
在寒冷黑暗的深夜之中 在狂风呼啸的深夜之中 in the cold, dark night when the wind's blowing alpine...
只求有人能够读懂 听懂你的所知所感 到头来却发现一切都是徒劳的 in the vain hope that someone will read and hear and understand.
你一定就是托马斯·乌尔夫 You must be Thomas Wolfe.
这些都是你签的作家吗？ Are all these your authors?
托尔斯泰不是 Not Tolstoy.
珀金斯先生 Mr. Perkins.
请坐下吧 Please, sit down.
我本身不应该过来的 I wasn't even gonna come.
通过信件被拒绝 我还是更能接受一点 Prefer to get my rejections in the mail.
对于那几个熟悉的字眼 我反正是已经习惯了 There's something surgically antiseptic about those familiar words...
“我们抱歉地通知您…” "We regret to inform you..."
但我想见见您 But I wanted to meet you...
那个第一次读 弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德先生的作品 就说出 the man who first read Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald and said...
“太棒了！这个世界需要诗歌” "Yes! The world needs poets.
“天啊！这篇文章一定要出版” "My God! Someone publish this bastard...
“因为世界需要诗歌” "'cause the world needs poets.
“不然这些人活着还有什么意思”的人 "Or why even live?"
而我现在正和这个人面对面 So I'm looking at that man now.
祝贺你 Well, congratulations...
发掘了一个天才 当然 如果算上海明威 就是两个了 on finding one genius. Two, if you count Hemingway.
但你眼前的这个人 As for this one...
他会一直坚持下去 he'll persevere.
一棵树不会因为顶端的枝桠被截断 就失去生命 You can't kill the deep roots by cutting off a few top branches.
相反它的根只会越扎越深 珀金斯先生 And the roots go deep, Mr. Perkins.
会变得越来越牢固 And they are unassailable.
乌尔夫先生 我们有意出版您的书 Mr. Wolfe, we intend to publish your book.
如果你愿意的话 If that's acceptable to you.
现在 有些相关事宣要跟你探讨 Now, I'd like to do some work with you.
就现在的情况而言 《啊 迷失》太过于冗长 In its current state, O Lost is simply too long for one volume.
我认为你可以适当的缩减一些内容 I think you could afford to shape it a bit...
截断一小部分“顶端的枝桠” cut off a few of the "top branches."
珀金斯先生 Mr. Perkins.
我知道你不是在寻我开心 因为你不是那样的人 I know you're not fooling with me. You don't look the type.
但是天啊 我快高兴得晕厥过去了 But my God, this is too much for me.
你根本不知道 你根本不知道 你根本不知道 You don't know. You don't know. You don't know.
全纽约所有该死的出版商都讨厌我的书 Every son-of-a-bitch publisher in New York hates my book.
乌尔夫先生 坐下说好吗 Mr. Wolfe, if you could sit down.
- 汤姆 - 汤姆 - Tom. - Tom.
叫我汤姆就行 Tom, please.
汤姆 Tom.
我认为你的书 本质上是一本自传 I take it your book is autobiographical in nature.
这是写作的最好形式 不是吗？ No other way to write, is there?
尤金·甘特其实就是我！ Eugene Gant is me!
而我妈妈就是伊莱扎 我爸爸是奥利弗·甘特 And my mama is Eliza, and my papa is W.O. Gant.
这些我们以后再谈 We'll get into all that.
文章太长了 这一点我知道 I know it's too long. I know it's too long.
天啊 你都不知道为了删减戈尔贡这个人物 我纠结了多久 My lord, you don't know how I struggled to cut the gorgon down.
你根本不知道我有多不忍心 You don't know how I fought with her.
但现在不管您说什么 我都愿意删减 But I'll cut anything you say.
只需要您一句话 You just give me the word.
汤姆 Tom...
这是你的书 the book belongs to you.
我唯一想做的 就是将这本书以最好的形态 All I want to do is to bring your work to the public...
出版面世 in its best possible form.
我唯一的职责就是 My job, my only job...
将优秀的书交到读者手中 is to put good books into the hands of readers.
谢谢你 珀金斯先生 Thank you, Mr. Perkins.
现在 斯克里布纳已经同意 Now, Scribner's has agreed to give you...
向你预付一部分稿酬的订金 our standard advance against royalties.
如果你满意的话 我们就可以 If this is satisfactory...
按照你喜欢的程序节奏 完成后面的出版工作 we can proceed at whatever pace is comfortable for you.
五百美元？ $500?
所有人都觉得我的作品一文不值 No one ever thought my writing was worth a dime.
我的天啊！ Oh, lord!
我们明天就开始 您介意吗？ Do you mind if we start tomorrow?
当然不介意 Of course.
我保证会好好表现的 I promise to work hard.
太棒了！ Yeah!
天啊！ Oh, lord!
我都不能… I can barely...
天啊 真不敢相信 Oh, mighty. Oh, indeedy.
“乌尔夫先生 我们有意出版你的书” "Mr. Wolfe, we intend to publish your book."
不是吧！ No!
汤姆！ Tom!
噢 我的天使 谢谢 谢谢你 Oh, my angel, thank you. Thank you.
谢谢你 亲爱的 Thank you, my lover, my love.
我真是… I'm so...
太为你高兴了 噢！ I'm so happy for you. Oh!
你觉得我们应该删减多少内容？ How much you figure we have to cut?
差不多三百页左右 I'm guessing around 300 pages.
一本书重要的不是写了多少页 It's not the page count that's important.
而是它本身的内容 It's telling the story.
看啊 我整整四年的心血 There it is. Four years of my life.
剔除哪怕是一个字 都会让我心痛 My heart bleeds to see any of it go.
但我想舍不得孩子套不着狼 应该是这个道理吧 But I guess it's die dog or eat the hatchet.
我正想说这句话 You took the words right out of my mouth.
前面几个星期和你一起探讨书的过程 The last few weeks working on the book...
是我整个寒碜的一生 所经历的 have been the most thunderingly thrilling...
最愉快的时光了 of my entire woebegone life.
很高兴听你这么说 Glad I could amuse you.
我们埋入书堆 把一生献给了文字 You spend your lifetime in the pages of books...
正是如此 as we do...
书中的人物才会像极了生活中的我们 反映我们的内心 and those characters emerge that speak to you deep...
我们的本质 to the marrow.
他们就像是一面镜子 They are your mirrors.
我之前的写作 In my time...
受到了悉尼·卡尔顿 I aspired to Sydney Carton.
皮埃尔 Or Pierre...
还有托尔斯泰的启发 from the Tolstoy.
纵使我喜欢那时的文字 但我深知这样的写作 不是真实的自我 But I know that's not who I am, much as I would have it so.
书中的人物不应该表现 我们想成为的那种人 We are not those characters we want to be.
而应该表现 我们自己是怎样的人 We're those characters we are.
我就好比卡利班 [卡利班：莎士比亚《暴风城》中半人半兽的怪物] I'm Caliban.
那个小岛上的生物 That island creature...
畸形而丑陋的卡利班 monstrous and deformed. Caliban.
很难看 So ugly.
很奇怪 So alien.
对于诗歌 规避而不忍触碰 Hurt and shunned into poetry.
为什么不是曼哈顿而是一座小岛 处处充满着嘈杂？ What is Manhattan but an isle full of noises?
“这岛上充满了各种声音 使人听了愉快 不会伤害人” "Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not?"
“有时成千的叮叮咚咚的乐器” "Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments...
“在我耳边鸣响” "will hum about mine ears...
“有时在我” "and sometimes voices...
“酣睡醒来的时候 听到了这种歌声” "that, if I then had waked after long sleep...
“又会使我沉沉睡去” "will make me sleep again."
对于你的书《啊 迷失》 我有一个想法 I have a thought about the book, O Lost.
我觉得我们应该斟酌一下书名 I think we should discuss the title.
在我看来 它并不能很好地反映 你书中想要表达的内容 I don't know that it truly captures the meat of your book.
这样 想象一下你是一位读者 Here, imagine you're a reader.
你在一家书店闲逛 眼前是玲琅满目的书籍 You're wandering through a bookstore and lots of books...
然后你看见一本名为《西卵的特里马尔乔》 and you see a book titled Trimalchio in West Egg...
和一本名为《伟大的盖茨比》的书 and you see one titled The Great Gatsby.
你会选择哪一本？ Which are you going to pick up?
《盖茨比》 Gatsby.
这就是为什么斯科特 当时要改掉书名的原因 That's why Scott changed his original title.
他知道书名要取得更能吸睛 He knew it needed a bit more meat.
但这是你的书 你自己考虑拿主意吧 It's your book. Just give it a think.
我们到了 Here we are.
天啊 麦克斯！ My God, Max!
真是个豪宅 It's a mansion.
终于和你见面了 乌尔夫先生 真是太高兴了 It is so nice to finally meet you, Mr. Wolfe.
麦克斯常常提起你 Max has told us so much.
汤姆！叫我汤姆就行 Tom! It's Tom. Please.
也很高兴能来到这里 和你们每一个人见面 And nice to meet you. Every man jack of you.
应该是每一个女人 Or "girl jack," I should say.
麦克斯常常提起 他的这些漂亮的女儿们 Max has been circumspect about all these beautiful daughters.
放眼望去 真是让人赏心悦目 A bounteous sea of loveliness.
麦克斯告诉我们 你正在写一本新书 Max tells us you're working on a new book.
说到底 我其实就是一只大章鱼 I'm nothing if not a big old octopus.
大章鱼 An octopus.
一只触手还忙于修改《啊 迷失》 One arm still wrapped around O Lost...
另一只触手就已经偷偷探出去 while another one sneaks over here through the briny deep...
想要开始写新书了 to write the new book.
所以我觉得…我跟章鱼挺像的 I guess you could say I'm... I'm tentacular.
那新书是关于什么内容的？ What's the new one about?
关于美国 It's about America.
我想试着囊括美国的方方面面 All of it. I'm trying to capture everything.
每一座城市 村庄 Every city and village...
每一块石头 每一片树叶 每一个大人和小孩 and stone and leaf and man and child.
每一座农场 每一朵花 每一条河流 And every farm and flower, every river.
是关于那朵能够照亮 It's about the one acetylene torch...
整个国家每一个人内心的 圣洁而明亮的火焰的 white, bright truth that burns in the heart of every man in this country.
是对父亲真正意义上的探寻 And that is the search for a true father.
我不是指给予你生命的父亲 I don't mean biological father.
也不是在谈论精子 I'm not talking about sperm.
而是说 我们需要寻找精神层面父亲的意义 I mean, I search for the need of a father of our spirit.
这本书是关于每一件 能够让这个国家变得更为美好的事 It's about every single thing that makes this country great.
是一本史诗巨作！ It's mammoth!
麦克斯说 Max says...
唯一值得深掘 延展的命题 便是伟大的想法 the only ideas worth writing about are the big ideas.
想法要伟大 但话要精简 Big ideas, fewer words.
看吧 如果没有他 我早就迷失自我了 You see, I'm lost without him.
谁说不是呢？你知道我也是个作家吧？ Aren't we all? You know I'm a writer, too?
真的吗？ That so?
- 麦克斯没告诉你？ - 嗯 - Max didn't tell you? - Yes
我正在写一出戏剧剧本 已经写了好长一段时间了 I've been working on a play for quite some time now.
是关于波林 也就是拿破仑的姐姐的 It's about Pauline, Napoleon's sister.
是一出历史剧 对吧？ Historical pageant, is it?
差不多 但我想加更多现代的元素进去 Well, it's attempting to be more modern.
我之前也写过戏剧 I wrote a play once.
但并不是什么美好的经历 It was not a happy experience. I can tell you that.
我觉得戏剧非常平淡 I found it an anemic form...
缺少散文所带来的层次感 lacking the multi-colored cloak of prose.
所以我放弃这种形式 回来写小说了 So I dumped the form and returned to my novels.
你的新书想好用什么书名了吗？ Do you have a title for your new book?
你爸爸和我已经想出不少好名字了 Your daddy and I have considered a bunch.
现在我们比较倾向于《时光与河流》 Right now we're thinking about Of Time and the River.
“河流”这个词能让我想起自己的父亲 "The River" 'cause that word just reminds me of my father.
河流从他门前缓缓流过 几经波折又流回到原来的地方 The river running away from his door and right back again.
听上去这本书应该也挺长的吧 That sounds like quite a long book.
别这么说 艾琳 Don't say that, Aline.
我明天就回来 I'll see you tomorrow.
记住要打扮好来接我 Keep yourself ready for me.
晚安 晚安 Goodnight. Goodnight.
这样你应该能睡得舒服点 This should do you nicely.
明早见 I'll see you in the morning.
麦克斯 Max.
谢谢今晚的款待 Thank you for tonight.
希望我没有冒犯到大家 I hope I didn't offend anyone.
我非常想让你的家人喜欢我 I so want your family to like me.
不用担心 你做的很好 Don't worry. Of course not.
我不是个小丑 I'm not a circus animal.
我知道 自己有时候看起来像个疯子 See, I know I seem like a freak.
说话大声 Too loud...
表现浮夸 像个喜欢说大话的瘾君子 too grandiose, not quite real.
但我就是这样的人 That's who I am.
我就是这么从阿什维尔出来的 That's how I got out of Asheville, by making noise.
一路拼到了现在 I thrashed my way out.
但我和其他人一样 也有感情 But I feel things like a real person.
所以… So...
…以下的话 是发自我那一颗卡利班的内心 from Caliban's heart, I say this.
我这一辈子 从没交过朋友 In all my life, well, till I met you...
直到我遇见了你 I never had a friend.
如果我们今天能把本的死因确定下来 If we nail down Ben's death today...
那么我们离修订完成就不远了 then, hell, we're within hollering distance of the end.
艾琳！ Aline!
麦克斯 Max.
我来介绍一下 她就是伯恩斯坦夫人 Let me introduce you. This is Mrs. Bernstein.
你好吗？ How do you do?
珀金斯先生 Mr. Perkins.
汤姆成天都在提到你 Tom has told me so much about you.
她是第一个告诉我 我的作品是有价值的人 She's the first person who told me my writing was worth anything.
她是我坚持下来的理由 我们的书因她而诞生 Hell, she's the whole reason for our book.
多谢 I thank you for that.
昨晚说好一起去的 We were expected last night.
我不是告诉你了吗… Oh, I told you...
你让我好尴尬 it was embarrassing for me.
你知道我讨厌参加那些戏剧活动 You know I hate those theatrical affairs.
那你也应该知道 我不想一个人去 And you know I didn't want to go alone.
打扰一下 If you'll excuse me.
那些演员都让我感觉很不自在 All those actors make me feel awkward.
这你是知道的！ You know that!
我告诉过你 我是不会去的 I told you I wasn't gonna come.
我们两个人的时候再谈 We will continue this alone.
我两点的时候去找你 I'll come by around 2:00.
两点 好极了 谢谢 2:00. Perfect. Thanks.
走吧 Come on.
祝你愉快 珀金斯先生 Good day, Mr. Perkins.
你刚刚对我好凶 You are so mad at me.
不 我才没有 我没生气 No, I'm not. I'm not mad at you.
- 终于完成了 - 嗯 - There it is. - Well
这是去印刷厂前最后的机会了 This is our last chance before we go to the printer.
我再问你一遍 So I'll ask you again.
你有想好其他书名吗？ Have you thought about another title?
你肯定不会喜欢的 You'll hate it.
说来听听 Try me.
[《天使，望故乡》] [托马斯·乌尔夫]
现在我成斯克里布纳公司的畅销书作者了 Now, I'm a Scribner's bestseller...
我觉得我有理由好好给自己放个假 I figured I deserve a little of the high life.
再说一遍卖出去多少本 麦克斯 Say it again, Max.
- 这个月卖出一万五千本 - 噢 - 15,000 copies this month. - Oh.
- 艾琳 你听到了吗？ - 嗯哼 - Aline, you hear that? - Well
即使是现在整个国家的经济 Not even the economy of the entire country...
都受到冲击 但是我的书还是这么畅销 crumbling around our ankles is hurting my book.
你有看过汤姆的书吗 伯恩斯坦夫人？ Have you read Tom's book, Mrs. Bernstein?
当然 珀金斯先生 为这本书我也花了不少心血 Yes, Mrs. Perkins, it's dedicated to me.
如果没有我可爱的爱人 就不会有我的今天 I wouldn't have been able to do it without my sweet Jewess.
纸笔都是她帮我买的 She bought the paper and the pencils.
- 打字员的钱也是她帮我付的 - 够了 - And paid for the typist. - That's enough.
- 别说了 - 她给我提供住的地方 - That's enough. - She put a roof over my head...
填满我这食量惊人的肚子 and food in my prodigious belly.
大家都知道我有多喜欢吃 Hell, y'all know how much I love to eat.
你一定对这本书很引以为傲 You must be very proud of the book...
因为你对他的信任终于得到了回报 to see all your faith rewarded.
我们的信任 Our faith.
现在应该讲“我们的信任”不是吗 珀金斯先生？ It's our faith now, isn't it, Mr. Perkins?
没有你 汤姆是没办法完成这本书的 Tom couldn't have done it without you.
没这回事 That's not true.
在我面前 你不必故作谦虚 You needn't play at humble pie with me.
汤姆每次提起你对这本书的贡献 都充满了激情 Tom speaks of your contribution with such passion.
他无时无刻都把你挂念在嘴上 He really can't seem to stop talking about you.
“麦克斯说这个 麦克斯说那个” "Max says this. Max says that."
- 冷静点 亲爱的 别这样 - “麦克斯 麦克斯 麦克斯” - Easy, girl. Easy, girl. - "Max, Max, Max."
我们应该把一切都归功于珀金斯先生 No, we should give Mr. Perkins all of the credit.
毕竟 是他这个天才 I mean, after all, he is the genius...
帮助你实现了自己的所有梦想 who made all of your dreams come true.
是他帮你将那一大段杂乱无章的文字 整合成现在… He's the one who shaped that massive collection of words into a...
市场上的畅销书 into a marketable bestseller...
让它得以满足世界各地的读者 对文学的渴望 putting it into the eager hands of readers everywhere.
这对于珀金斯先生来说 可是个不小的荣誉啊 不是吗？ I mean, that is quite a triumph for Mr. Perkins, hmm?
这本书是汤姆写的 这一切都是他应得的 The work is Tom's. He deserves to enjoy it.
真的吗？这真的是汤姆应得的？ Really? Is that what Tom deserves?
不要再烦麦克斯了 Leave Max alone.
我没在跟你说话 我在跟你的长辈说话 I'm not speaking to you, I'm speaking to your elder.
你应该学会信任自己的长辈 因为他们懂的比你多 You should learn to trust your elders. They know what's best.
他们也应该懂得如何言行 才算符合他们的身份 They should also behave in a manner appropriate to their years.
你是托马斯·乌尔夫吗？ You're Thomas Wolfe?
我正在读你的书 真是一本杰作 I'm reading your book. It's a masterpiece.
真的吗？ Is it, now?
当然 写得非常好 Very much.
听我说 我有几个朋友 非常想认识你 Look, um, I have some friends who are dying to meet you.
你们不会介意 我占用他几分钟时间吧？ You don't mind if I steal him for a tick or two?
- 当然没关系 - 不 当然不介意 - Of course you don't. - Oh, not at all.
- 你先请 - 好的 我叫威洛 - After you. - Okay. I'm Willow.
- 很高兴认识你 - 这是我的荣幸 - Nice to meet you. - What a pleasure.
晚上好 Good evening.
- 这位就是托马斯·乌尔夫 - 不 认识你是我的荣幸 - This is Thomas Wolfe. - No, it's my pleasure.
晚上好 很高兴认识你 Good evening. Nice to meet you.
你根本无法想像州立救济所 那里面是什么样子 You don't know what they're like, the state asylums.
畸形怪诞 Grotesque.
我不知道该怎么形容… I don't have the words. There...
在我的字典里 找不到合适的词 There are no words in my lexicon.
只能想到一个词 畸形怪诞 One word, no flourishes. Grotesque.
那里面时刻充斥着此起彼伏的尖叫声… The screaming is constant and so...
是那么凄凉 desolate.
而且里面厕所也不够 They don't have enough toilets.
我不能让塞尔达待在那种地方 I can't let Zelda stay in such a place.
我知道 I know.
但私人的救济所费用又很高 But private asylums are expensive.
我也知道《盖茨比》没赚几个钱 I know Gatsby didn't make any money.
但我只能靠它了 麦克斯 But I'm up against it, Max.
斯克里布纳公司不能再付你更多的预付金了 Scribner's can't give you any more advances.
报社也不肯刊登我的小说 The Post won't even take any more of my stories.
我想我只能回好莱坞 再试一次了 I guess I could go back to Hollywood and give that another try.
我建议你别这么做 I hope you don't do that.
- 为什么？ - 因为你是个作家 - Why? - You're a novelist.
现在不是了 Not anymore.
二十四岁时 我怎么就没死呢 I should have died when I was 24.
也好过受现在这种煎熬 Right after This Side of Paradise.
我寄给你那本书 你收到了吗？ Did you get that book I sent you?
哪一本？ Which?
《格兰特将军的回忆录》 General Grant's memoirs.
你知道这本书他是怎样写成的吗？ Do you know how he came to write them?
这是个有趣的故事 This is interesting.
他当时深受喉癌的折磨 He was dying of throat cancer...
希望在死之前 为他的家人留下点可以回忆的东西 and he wanted to leave something behind for his family...
所以他就开始写自传 so he started writing his autobiography.
他每天从早写到晚 He worked every day for hours and hours.
他虽然疼痛难忍 极度不适 He was in great pain, anguish...
但他始终没有停笔 but he just kept on writing.
最后 他发表了这本惊世骇俗的巨作 And in the end, he produced the most astounding book.
非常了不起 So very beautiful.
一点小小的心意 希望能帮你渡过难关 Just a little velvet to see you through.
我会写出一本好作品的 I'll write you a great book.
我知道 I know.
珀金斯夫人 Mrs. Perkins.
伯恩斯坦夫人 Mrs. Bernstein.
你好 Hello.
你是这部剧的作者？ You're designing this production?
是的 Yes.
我还有其他刚毕业的孩子们 Me and all the Lost Boys.
我们并不真正了解他们 不是吗？ We know a few of them, don't we?
他年轻的时候 你不认识他 You didn't know him when he was young.
当时他刚刚从哈佛毕业 He was fresh out of Harvard...
却已经满怀志向 准备开辟自己的天地 and he was all ready to carve up the world.
他跟我之前认识的人完全不一样 He was unlike anyone I'd ever met.
我能懂 I understand.
我不认为你能懂 I don't think that you do.
这么说吧 我丈夫是个非常随和的人 You see, my husband is a very kind man...
但他完全不懂情趣 but he's a man without color.
他跟那些走在华尔街 满脑子都是数字的人一样 He's a man of Wall Street and numbers.
但我从没跟数字打过交道 I don't understand numbers.
你有孩子吗 伯恩斯坦夫人？ You have children, Mrs. Bernstein?
有 Yes.
一个女儿 一个儿子 A daughter and a son.
他们都长大了 They're grown.
当我发现自己爱上汤姆的时候 我意识到这是个错误 I did a foolish thing when I fell in love with Tom...
但我控制不住自己的情感 but I can't help how I feel.
我的心被触碰了 My heart was touched.
在我人生最灰暗的时刻 At the very time in my life...
当所有美好的事物都离我而去 when everything beautiful was falling away...
没人需要我的时候 我遇见了汤姆 and no one needed me, I met Tom.
他让我重拾对生活的希望 And Tom made me feel beautiful again.
但现在我意识到因为你丈夫的出现 我快要失去他了 But I know now I've lost him to your husband.
伯恩斯坦夫人 Mrs. Bernstein.
我丈夫一直很想要一个儿子 My husband always wanted a son...
这是他最大的愿望 more than anything in the world.
但试了很多次都以失败告终 最后我们放弃了 We reached a point when we realized that wasn't going to happen.
而就在这时 他遇见了汤姆 And then he met Tom.
我不能失去他 I can't let him go.
艾琳 去和你自己的家人团聚吧 Aline, go home to your family.
他们需要你 而汤姆不需要 They need you. Tom doesn't.
家 丈夫 还有自尊 Family, husband, dignity.
为了汤姆 我都舍弃了 I gave that all up for him.
汤姆 Tom.
进来吧 Come in.
汤姆？ Tom?
我写完了 I have it.
写完什么？ You have it?
新书 The new book.
你带了吗？ With you?
带了 Yes.
那好 让我看看 Well, let's have it.
各位 拿进来吧 Bring it in, guys.
放在那里 Put it down there.
这些都是《时光与河流》？ This is Of Time and the River?
- 都抬进来了 - 谢谢你 先生 - Here you go. - Thank you, sir.
干得好 Well done.
你现在赶快回家 好好睡一觉 Now, go home and get some sleep.
- 我需要你… - 先让我看了再说 - I need you... - Let me read it.
好好看 好吗？ Read it kindly. Please?
[《纽约时报》《时光与河流》] [托马斯·乌尔夫]
如果我们每天晚上进行讨论 在不被打扰的情况下 If we work every day in the evening, when we won't be disturbed...
应该可以完成 we can do it.
- 要多长时间？ - 九个月 - How long? - Nine months.
当然是在你努力配合 If you work hard and if you resist...
并且抑制住继续添加内容的冲动 的前提下 the temptation to add much more.
我还想继续完善 I have to be able to add more.
汤姆 这本书已经有五千页了 Tom, the book is 5,000 pages long.
我明白了 Point taken.
现在 先从第一页开始 Now, to begin, on page one.
天啊 第一页？ Oh, lord. Page one?
看这个地方 尤金在站台上等火车 Now, look here, you've given 80 pages to Eugene...
这段你都写了整整八十页 on the platform before the train arrives.
是不是应该在这里提到莉莉 才不会显得这么突兀？ That is, perhaps, gilding the lily a bit as to suspense?
谁等火车等这么久啊 除非是在等人 I mean, I'll only wait so long for a train.
- 这是我打完的三个章节… - 给你 珀金斯先生 - Those three sections to me... - Here you are, Mr. Perkins.
当他遇见那个女孩时 你是这么写的 When he meets the girl, you've written this.
“正当尤金已经习惯眼前” "As Eugene's eyes became accustomed to the haze...
“满是烟卷 雪茄产生的烟雾 迷绕而成的混沌景象” "of the cigarettes and cigars swirling miasma-like...
“他看见一个女人 穿着哔叽” "he saw a woman, in serge...
“一双手套 像爬藤植物一般环绕在” "and gloves that crept like living tendrils...
“她本应该白皙如雪的手臂上” "up her normally ivory arms...
“而现在她的手臂却呈现一种迷人的红色” "but now sun-kissed as a blush...
“就好比对世间万物充满好奇的动物学家” "as the incarnadine discovery inside a conch shell...
“第一次发现贝壳当中红色的躯体般兴奋” "seen for the first time by a bewildered zoologist...
“他被这种红润中透着淡淡粉色的肤色所吸引” "as he is undone by its rosy, promising pinkness.
“这就是她的手臂” "Those were her arms.
“但真正让他心跳加速 无法呼吸的” "But it was her eyes that stopped his breath...
“是她那双迷人的眼睛” "and made his heart leap up.
“蓝色的眼睛” "Blue they were.
“虽然他穿着略显浮夸的大衣 周围烟雾弥漫” "Even through the swirling vapors of pompous Chesterfields...
“眉宇间透露着一股自大” "and arrogant Lucky Strikes...
“他还是忍不住盯着 她那双蓝得动人 似大海般透彻的眼睛” "he saw her eyes were a blue beyond blue, like the ocean.
“蓝得深沉” "Blue beyond blue.
“那是一种他愿意沉溺其中的蓝” "A blue he could swim into forever...
“他愿意久久将其凝视 细数其中掺杂的其他颜色” "and never miss a fire-engine red or a cornstalk yellow.
“他们之间由一道轨道隔开” "Across the chasm of that room...
“那双湛蓝的眼睛” "that blue, those eyes...
“将他吞噬 一扫而过 却从未在他身上停留” "devoured him and looked past him and never saw him...
“也不会在他身上停留 他很确信这一点” "and never would, of that he was sure.
“从那一刻起” "From that moment...
“尤金终于明白” "Eugene understood...
“这么多年来 那些诗歌的所言所感了” "what the poets had been writing about these many years.
“这一刻 所有迷失 彷徨 孤独的灵魂之中 多了他一个” "All the lost, wandering, lonely souls who were now his brothers.
“他爱上一个人 却明白自己永远无法拥有这份爱” "He knew a love that would never be his.
“一切都发生得太快” "So quickly did he fall for her...
“快到所有在他身边的人 都没听到任何声响” "that no one in the room even heard the sound.
“爱神之箭射出时发出的嗖嗖声” "The whoosh as he fell...
“以及他的心破碎时发出的龟裂声” "the clatter of his broken heart.
“周围虽然还是一片宁静” "It was a sure silence...
“但他的人生已然灰暗” "but his life was shattered."
章节完结 End of chapter.
你不喜欢吗？ You don't like it?
我当然喜欢 You know I do.
但这不是重点 That's not the point.
所以他是看见一个女孩 So he sees a girl...
然后就对她一见钟情了 对吗？ and he falls in love for the first time, yes?
当时他的脑海中有联想到海洋生物吗？ Does his mind go to deep-sea marine life?
那一刻是有的 At that moment, yes.
这一点有待考究 I don't believe it.
我觉得你爱上的是所有的这些表象 而不是这个女孩 I think you fell in love with the images, not the girl.
所以要把动物学家 和雪茄都删掉 So we cut the zoology and the cigar brands.
- 好吧 - 粉色这个点再考虑一下？ - I'll do it. - And the ruminations on pink?
不 不行！ No. No!
这些形容词都没用错 他就是以这种视角看问题的人 The adjectives are true. He's a man who thinks that way.
粉色远不止这一个概念 Pink is never just pink.
它还代表其他很多的方面 而这些都是对塑造这个形象攸关重要的 It's a thousand other things, all profoundly important to him.
都是他心理状态的一种反映 All variations on his psychological state.
每一个场景的描写 以及每一种声音都是很重要的 Every image and the sound of every word matters.
并不是 No, it doesn't.
- 这些都是毫无意义的 - 它们非常重要！ - They're vital! - Nonsense.
- 别自欺欺人了 - 很重要！ - Vital! - You're losing the plot.
他恋爱了 He's falling in love.
你第一次陷入爱河时 是怎样的感受 汤姆？ What was it like the first time you fell in love, Tom?
跟玉米秆似的黄色 还有浮夸的大衣有关吗？ Was it cornstalk yellow and pompous Chesterfields?
是像被闪电击中一般 It was a lightning bolt.
这就是恋爱的感觉啊 如闪电击中一样 And that's what it should be, a lightning bolt.
闪电的声音就不用写了 Save all the thunder.
明白了 I got you.
这个删掉 Cut that.
好了 把对衣物的描写都划了 All right. We cut the textile.
“他看见一个女人…” "He saw a woman..."
删掉 删掉 删掉 Cut. Cut. Cut.
“但真正让他心跳加速 无法呼吸的” "But it was her eyes that stopped his breath in his throat...
“是她那双迷人的眼睛” "that made his heart leap up."
不 别学华兹华斯 No, cut the Wordsworth.
“让他无法呼吸” "It stopped his breath."
- “蓝色的双眼…” - 把贝壳删掉 - "Blue they were..." - Cut the marine life.
- “蓝得动人 似大海般透彻” - 陈词滥调 - "A blue beyond blue, like the ocean." - Cliche.
“蓝得清澈 就像…” "A blue beyond blue like..."
蓝色就行了 不用比喻 Like nothing but blue.
“是一种让他愿意永远沉溺其中的蓝…” "A blue he could swim into forever and never miss..."
恩 这句话删掉 Mmm, cut this.
后面接… Then pick up with...
人世间有此等动人的蓝吗？有此等迷人的眼吗？ Had there ever been such blue? Had there ever been such eyes?
- 这里不需要用反问 - 为什么？ - Don't need the rhetorical. - Why?
因为这样偏题了 它不是在描述恋爱的感觉 It's not a lightning bolt. It's a digression.
“蓝得…” 不！ "A blue beyond..." No!
她的眼睛是清澈的蓝 Her eyes were blue.
好多了 Better.
这里也删掉 And cut.
他一无是处 但是她就是他的全部 He was worthless. She was everything.
她就是一个从他眼前经过的女孩 这样就行了 That's enough. She was a girl across a room. That's enough.
所以“所有迷失 彷徨的灵魂…”这一句都不要了 And so, cut "the lost, wandering souls..."
删掉 Cut.
“这一切发生得太快” "So quickly did he fall for her...
“快得连他周围的人 一点声响都没听见” "that no one in the room even heard the sound...
“爱神之箭离弦的声音 他心碎的声音…” "the whoosh as he fell, the clatter..."
嗖嗖声 哗啦声 这些东西有意义吗？ The whoosh, the clatter. Is that the point?
那你恋爱的时候会听见什么？ Well, what did you hear when you fell in love?
听见什么？哗啦声？ What did you hear? Clattering?
我想表达的重点 是他的心理活动 The point is it was all happening inside him.
他的人生在那一刻发生了改变 His life changed.
但是他周围的人都没注意到 No one else in the room noticed anything.
那就这么写啊 Then make that the point.
我讨厌删减内容！ I hate to see the words go!
也许我们可以换个角度看这个问题 Maybe the larger question is this.
在一本满是华丽辞藻的书中 如何才能使你描写的这段场景 In a book crowded with great rolling mountains of prose...
在所有内容之中凸显出来？ how is this moment profoundly different?
- 让它变得简单 - 不加修饰 - Because it's simple. - Unadorned.
就像闪电一样 Like lightning.
在黑夜之中一闪而过 干脆且令人印象深刻 Standing out in the black sky by its starkness.
完全正确 Exactly.
天啊！ God damn!
请上车！ All aboard!
十二号线 前往西南方向的十二号线将马上发车 Track 12, Southwest trunk line now departing from Track 12.
“尤金看见一个女人” "Eugene saw a woman.
“她的眼睛是清澈的蓝色” "Her eyes were blue.
“他对她一见钟情” "So quickly did he fall for her...
“那种恋爱的感觉突如其来 快到周围的人毫无察觉” "that no one in the room even heard the sound."
句号 第四章结束 Period. End of Chapter Four.
还有九十八章就完成了！ Only 98 more to go!
我爱你 麦克斯·珀金斯！ I love you, Max Perkins!
…和弗朗西斯 尤金一起在巴黎 ...with Francis and Eugene in Paris.
没错！想象你自己正在横跨大西洋 Exactly! As if you're skipping across the Atlantic.
“这让尤金感到迷惑” "Matching Eugene's disorientation."
他不知道 他们以后永远不会再见面 也不知道 她永远不会爱上他 He didn't know that she would never see him, that her love would never be his.
他怎么可能知道？ How could he know that?
- 等一下 他知道 - 怎么知道的？ - Hold on, he did. - How?
“黄昏的太阳 似葡萄大小 绽放出微弱的光” "The subtle grapy bloom of dusk."
汤姆 我们说好用一句话 来连接删减部分前后的内容 Tom, we discussed a transition line. One line to bridge the cut.
但你给了我整整五十页新的内容 来讲这个医生 You've given me 50 new pages on the doctor.
上面描述了他的整个人生轨迹 还有他父亲的整个人生轨迹 You've given me his whole life story and his father's whole life story.
- 我喜欢这个医生 - 我也是啊 - I like the doctor. - Well, so do I.
我也喜欢医生这个角色 但用得着五十页来写他吗？ I adore the doctor. But by God, 50 pages?
有些书本身就应该长篇大论 你知道吗？ Some books are supposed to be long, you know?
谢天谢地 托尔斯泰当年没遇见你 Thank Christ Tolstoy never met you.
不然他的小说里 应该就只剩战争场景了 We'd have that great novel War and Nothing.
作为一名作家 你必须学会取舍 To be a novelist, you have to select.
必须学会精雕细琢 You have to shape and sculpt.
为什么？ Why?
因为我们努力了整整两年 但这本书仅仅只削减了一百页的内容 Because we've been working for two years and the book is only 100 pages shorter.
我只需要五秒钟 让我安静一会儿！ Five goddamn seconds of peace is all I ask!
你就不能给我安静五秒吗？ Can't you give me five goddamn seconds?
该死！ God damn!
这里只需要随笔带过就行了 汤姆 不用把所有细节都交代清楚 It's the tip of the iceberg, Tom. You're giving me the full iceberg.
所以你是说 这些都是垃圾 垃圾… So you're saying this is trash, this is trash...
你明明知道我不会来 You knew this was gonna happen.
为什么还要这么天真的做无用功？ Why are you playing all dewy-eyed ingenue?
因为我自以为已经非常了解你 知道你的所有缺点 Because I did not imagine, even taking you at your absolute worst...
但没想到你竟如此的自私 you could be so selfish.
我不能把我的工作丢在一边 I can't turn my back on the work.
艾琳！ Aline!
那是我的工作啊 是我的梦想 It's what I do. It's my job.
这也是我的工作 And this is my job.
你到底什么时候才能意识到 首演对于我来讲是有多么重要？ When will you ever learn how much an opening night means to me?
我戴对了吗？ Is this all right?
对 你看起来很漂亮 Yes, you look lovely.
你上台的时候 能把围巾放在面向观众一边的肩膀上吗？ Could you please put the scarf on your downstage shoulder when you enter?
谢谢 Thank you.
今晚对我来讲非常重要 我需要你 It's an important night for me. I need you here.
但我今晚得工作 I have to work tonight.
这两年来 你每晚都要工作 You've been working every single night for the past two years.
你知道当你每次回家 Do you have any idea what it's like...
都要面对空无一人的房间 是怎样的感受吗？ coming home to an empty apartment every night?
听着 我不是说你的工作不重要 Look, I'm not saying your work is not important.
你就是这个意思！ Of course you are!
我就只需要这一个晚上 I ask for one night.
就一晚 你能腾出你宝贵的时间 到现场来支持我 One night of your precious time to be at my side and support me.
你不明白 你不明白 You don't understand. You don't understand.
我的书现在正处于一个极度紧张的危险期！ We are at a moment of radical crisis with my book!
够了 别说了！ Stop it. Stop it!
别跟我说什么危机处理 I've never known you not to be at a point...
你从没体会过这种感受 你真应该上台表演试试 of radical crisis about something. You really ought to be on the stage.
麦克斯说 如果我们能… Max says if we push through...
又开始了“麦克斯说！麦克斯建议！麦克斯指示！” There we go. "Max says! Max suggests! Max instructs!"
不管哪一天 只要他一开口 你便随叫随到 He can have you every other day of the week...
但我只需要你陪我一晚 but I need you tonight.
所以拜托你 能不能从我的道具上起来 赶紧回家 So, please, would you get off my set, go home...
穿上你的蓝色西装 等我七点来接你 and put on your blue suit, and I will pick you up at 7:00.
我不会来的 I won't be there.
你自己选择 汤姆 Make your choice, Tom.
现在就选 Right now.
没必要这么做吧 亲爱的 There's no call for this, honey.
快选 Right now.
看看你都对我做了什么 Look what you have done to me.
他现在压力很大 He's under a lot of pressure.
如果现在不继续 我不知道他会变成什么样 If we don't keep going now, I don't know what'll happen to him.
需要装食物的篮子吗？ You want the big hamper?
还有热水瓶 And the thermoses.
谢谢 Thanks.
你必须站在他的立场上 想想他现在的处境 You have to think what it's like for him.
他的第一本书出版后 人人都叫他天才 His first book comes out, everyone calls him a genius.
所有人对他第二本书的期望值都非常之高 Expectations on the second book are mighty big.
他很惶恐 所以他才不停地写 不停地写 He's scared. That's why he won't stop writing.
为什么你不自己向女儿们解释清楚？ Why don't you explain that to your daughters?
- 路易丝 - 她们很想念自己的爸爸 - Louise. - They want their father back.
但这是我的工作啊 It's my job. It's what I do.
每天二十四小时不间断的工作？ Every minute of every day?
如果需要花几年的时间 那我也没有办法 And if it takes years, it takes years.
你要知道 这段时间你以后永远没办法弥补回来 You're never going to get this time back.
天啊 这不过是一次该死的度假而已！ It's one damn vacation, for Christ's sake!
路易丝 像汤姆这样的作家 我可能一生只能碰到一个 Louise, a writer like Tom, I get one in a lifetime.
你这一生 也只有这么几个女儿 You get your daughters for the same lifetime.
对不起 I'm sorry.
跟孩子们道个别 Wave to the girls.
出发了 小姐们！ All right, ladies!
都准备好开始大冒险了吗？ Are you ready for our great adventure?
把门关上 亲爱的 Close your door, darling.
别一直这么担心路易丝 You gotta stop worrying about Louise so much.
她们很快就会回来的 They'll be back before you know it.
汤姆 我们这是去哪儿？ Tom, where are we going?
啊 你等着瞧吧 Ah, you'll see.
我们应该赶紧工作 We're supposed to be working.
这也是工作的一部分 This is work.
我觉得如果你没有亲身体会过 给予我灵感的 I decided you can never appreciate the music of my book...
黑夜中的节奏 the tonality and cadence...
你是不能与我书中所表现的音乐和韵律 without experiencing the dark rhythms...
产生共鸣的 that inspire me.
- 威士忌！大杯的 - 你呢？ - Bourbon! In a big ol' tumbler. - You?
一杯马蒂尼 纯的 Martini, please. Very dry.
给他也来一杯威士忌 He'll have a bourbon.
没问题 You got it.
听到了吗 麦克斯？ You hear it, Max?
我不是很喜欢音乐 I don't care much for music.
在你冷峻寡欲的灵魂深处 一定藏有野蛮奔放的一面 There's a savage indictment of your grim, puritan soul.
来吧！ Come on!
一定有一首歌 是你喜欢的 There must be one song you like.
《轻轻地流淌 甜美的亚顿河》 Flow Gently, Sweet Afton.
我比较偏爱《轻轻地流淌 甜美的亚顿河》这首歌 I'm partial to Flow Gently, Sweet Afton.
没问题 先生 You got it, sir.
你们的两杯威士忌 Two bourbons, gentlemen.
爵士最大的魅力在于 这些演奏的伙计都是真正的艺术家 The whole thing about jazz is that these fellas are artists.
他们通过对于音乐的理解 They interpret the song...
自己对一首歌进行重新组合 即兴表现 letting the music pour on out, riff upon riff...
就像我写作那样 just like I do with words.
让标准格式见鬼去吧 To hell with standard forms.
让福楼拜 亨利·詹姆斯见鬼去吧 To hell with Flaubert and Henry James.
要特立独行 对吧？ Be original. Hmm?
创造属于自己的风格 Blaze new trails.
就好像打破陈规的大猩猩 That's the whole ugly gorilla.
打破陈规的大猩猩 没错 Ugly gorilla. Of course.
请听 There.
为你准备的亨利·詹姆斯式的标准版 That's Henry James for you.
很舒缓 很熟悉 对吗？ It's comfortable and familiar, isn't it?
额哦 Uh-oh.
这是什么？ What's that?
听起来就好像一只大猩猩 将所有的一切都打破了 不是吗？ Sounds like an ugly gorilla coming our way, don't it?
这就是汤姆·乌尔夫！ That's Tom Wolfe!
感受一下 麦克斯！ Feel it, Max!
我看见你的脚动了 I see your feet moving.
我看见你的膝盖也动了 I see your knees moving.
来吧 麦克斯！感受这种音乐吧！ Come on, Max! Feel it!
很好 Nice.
你看见那边 那两位漂亮的女士了吗？ You see those two fine ladies over there?
麦克斯 别表现得这么明显 Subtle. Max, please, subtle.
- 吧台那两位？ - 嗯哼 - At the bar? - Well
我们过去吧 打声招呼 Let's go over there, say hello.
- 走吧！我们放松一下 - 不行 不行 - Come on! Let's have some fun. - I can't. I can't.
她们都成年了 麦克斯 没关系 They're working girls, Max. It doesn't count.
汤姆 对我来说 有关系 Yes, Tom, it does.
- 好吧 你不介意我… - 当然不 - Well, you don't mind if I... - No.
我从来都不知道见好就收 对吗？ Hell, I never know when to stop, do I?
- 来三杯威士忌！ - 好的 - Three bourbons! - You got it.
一 二 三 One, two, three.
还有你 And you, too.
我知道你在盯着我看 I saw you looking at me.
别担心 我不会把你冷落在一边的 Don't worry, I ain't gonna leave you out.
我会好好对待你们两个的 好吗？ I'm gonna want the both of you. All right?
来喝一杯 Let's have a drink.
我告诉你一件事 我的朋友 I'll tell you one thing, my friend.
你不会对海明威做出这种事 You wouldn't do this to Hemingway.
也不会对菲茨杰拉德做出这种事 You wouldn't do this to Fitzgerald...
对这两个不可冒犯之人 你根本不敢这么做！ not to your two goddamn sacred cows!
他们写的每一句话都是金子 是神来之笔！ Every word they write is golden genius!
够了！ Stop it!
我冥思苦想出来的东西 而你一句不合适 I bring you stuff wrenched right from my guts...
就把我给打发了 and you tell me it doesn't fit.
今天就到这里 你回家吧 That's enough. Go home.
什么？ What?
回家吧 好好睡一觉 Go home. Go to sleep.
不 不 不 No. No, no.
对不起 I'm sorry.
求你了 别让我自己回去 让我去你家吧 Please, don't make me go home. Let me come home with you.
我们…还可以赶上九点过两分那一班火车 We... We can still make the 9:02.
不了 我今天很累了 而且你也喝醉了 No, I'm exhausted and you're drunk.
- 我们明天再继续吧 - 不 - We'll pick up tomorrow. - No.
听他的吧 汤姆 You heard him, Tom.
回家去吧 Come home.
我来付计程车的钱 I'll pay for the taxi.
你来这里做什么？ What the hell are you doing here?
我还可以给你做晚饭 这些都不用你付钱 I can make you dinner. I'll pay for that, too.
快离开这里 我在工作呢 Get out of here. I'm working.
珀金斯先生已经告诉你 今晚不需要再继续工作了 Mr. Perkins has informed you you're not working anymore tonight...
所以跟我一起回家吧 so come on, come with me.
伯恩斯坦夫人… Mrs. Bernstein...
- 别碰我！ - 我的天啊 - Don't touch me! - For heaven's sake.
- 站在那里别动 - 天啊 艾琳！ - You stay there. - Jesus, Aline!
- 走吧 - 艾琳 - Come. - Aline.
你不想看见我？ You don't want to see me?
那好！ Fine!
那你永远也别想再见到我了 You will never have to see me again.
艾琳 Aline.
- 嗯？ - 你在做什么？ - Well. - What are you doing?
你到底在做什么？ What the hell are you doing?
- 艾琳！ - 不！ - Aline! - No!
- 别这样 - 不！ - Stop it. - No!
- 吐出来！ - 不！ - Spit 'em! - No!
快吐出来！ Spit 'em!
- 不 - 快把东西吐出来 快啊 - No. - You spit 'em out.
吐出来！快吐出来 Spit 'em out.
快吐出来 Spit 'em out! You spit it out.
别这样 艾琳 亲爱的 Stop now, Aline. My love.
亲爱的 我的天使 别这样 My love, my angel. Stop now.
好了 好了 好了 All right. All right. All right.
坚强点 亲爱的 Show me your strength, darling.
看着我 快看着我！ Look at me. Look at me!
站起来 Show me your strength.
嗯？加油 快站起来 Come on. Come on.
好了 快啊 就是这样 All right. Come on. Come on. That's it.
好了 没事了 All right. All right.
珀金斯先生… Mr. Perkins...
我知道这样的闹剧 通常不会发生在五楼 I know things such as this don't happen here...
这种地方 对此我很抱歉 on the fifth floor. I apologize.
没这个必要 我先进去了 That's not necessary. If you'll excuse me.
等一下 等等 我一会就过去 Wait up, wait up. I'll be right there.
不 汤姆 不用了！ No, Tom, really!
给我几分钟时间 Just give me a second.
回家里等我 好吗 I'll see you at home. All right.
没事了 All right.
删减的那个部分 你是对的 You were right about the cut.
抱歉我刚刚发这么大脾气 Sorry about being such a bear.
你不觉得应该陪伯恩斯坦夫人回去吗？ Don't you think you should go with Mrs. Bernstein?
不用 她只是随便闹一闹 Hell, she was just being theatrical.
好了 先跳过删减的部分 All right, so we forget about the cut.
我们来讨论一下 尤金在伦敦那部分的内容 Let's go on to Eugene in London.
“伦敦对于他而言 是个陌生复杂的地方” "He thought of the huge smoky web of London with the same joy...
“但只要有浓烈温润的麦芽酒 他便能享乐其中” "of the suave potent ale he could get in one place there...
“不论是在广场 还是古旧的法院…” "of its squares and ancient courts..."
爸爸！ Daddy!
快点 Hurry up.
- 嗨 爸爸 - 你好啊 小宝贝 - Hi, Daddy. - Hello, duck.
爸爸 我钓到一条虹鳟鱼 有九英寸长呢！ Daddy, I caught a rainbow trout. Nine inches!
快去帮你妹妹抬东西 You go help your sisters.
你不会相信… You would not believe the amount...
麦克斯韦尔 别这样 Maxwell, please.
汤姆 Tom.
汤姆！ Tom!
结束了 It's done.
结束？ Done?
别写了 Stop writing.
把你写的东西整理一下 明天拿到我办公室去 Gather all your papers and bring them in tomorrow.
你能做到吗？ Can you do that?
能 Yes.
我们这个月把书编辑完 四月份拿去印刷 We finish editing this month. We go to press in April.
然后十月就可以出版 We publish in October.
看着我 然后回答我你知道了 Look at me and say yes.
我知道了 Yes.
- 嗯 终于 - 嗯哼 - Shoot. - Well
我想出去散散心 I think I'll go rambling.
可能会去欧洲 Maybe Europe.
书评出来的时候 我可不想待在这里 Don't want to be around when the reviews come out.
怎么了？ What?
有一个段落 我想加进书里 There's one paragraph I have to add to the book.
- 天啊！ - 我必须加进去 - By God! - I have to add it.
如果你现在还要加内容 我们就完了 If you start adding paragraphs, we're sunk.
让你加了一段 你就会想加第二段 这样耗下去 一年又过去了 One paragraph will lead to two and then we'll be here for another year.
我能先读给你听听吗？ Shall I read it to you?
我想加在前言部分 It goes at the very front.
“这本书谨献给麦克斯韦尔·埃瓦茨·珀金斯” "This book is dedicated to Maxwell Evarts Perkins.
“一个勇敢 诚实的人” "A brave and honest man...
“他陪伴本书作者” "who stuck to the writer of this book...
“度过了人生中最苦痛的日子” "through times of bitter hopelessness.
“作者希望” "The author hopes...
“这本书能帮他实现自身价值” "this book will prove worthy of him."
- 我不建议你加 - 噢 - I wish you wouldn't. - Oh
- 为什么？ - 编辑都应该是匿名的 - Why? - Editors should be anonymous.
更重要的是 More than that...
我一直担心自己的编辑 there's always the fear...
会使你的作品走形 that I deformed your book.
你最初版的作品 到底是不是它最佳的版本 Who's to say it wasn't the way it was meant to be...
这谁又说得清楚呢？ when you first brought it in?
《战争与和平》 War and Peace.
它的重点不仅仅只是落在战争上 Not just War.
麦克斯 Max.
这也是为什么我们编辑 容易失眠的原因 知道吗？ That's what we editors lose sleep over, you know?
我们真的有让作品更上一层楼吗？ Are we really making books better?
还是说 我们只是改变了它本身想要传达的内容？ Or just making them different?
早上好 珀金斯先生 Morning, Mr. Perkins.
威科夫小姐 你知道哪儿能找到乌尔夫先生吗？ Miss Wyckoff, where would we find Mr. Wolfe at the moment?
他现在在巴黎 先生 He's in Paris, sir.
“书评都非常正面 全是褒奖之词” "Magnificent reviews. Full of praise.
“祝贺你 再一次成功了 麦克斯” "Congratulations, you've done it again. Max."
“相信我 比起该死的谎言 我更能接受不太完美的事实” "I can face blunt fact better than damnable incertitude.
“直接把该死的真相告诉我吧 别再逗我了！” "Give me the damn straight plain truth right now, damn you!
“汤姆” "Tom."
“人们到处在谈论这本书 都说这是一本意义非凡的杰作” "Talked of everywhere as a truly important book.
“他们还把你和其他一些伟大的作家相提并论” "All comparisons with greatest writers.
“甚至包括詹姆斯·乔伊斯” "Even James Joyce."
“乔伊斯倒希望自己有这么优秀呢” "Hell, Joyce wishes he was so good."
“我们又加印了五版” "Had to rush out five editions of the book.
“整整三万册” "Thirty thousand copies.
“从没见过一本书 能有如此高的关注度” "Never seen a book so talked about.
“人们又一次为你冠上天才的头衔” "They're calling you a genius again, God help you.
“赶快回家 麦克斯” "Come home soon. Max."
伯恩斯坦夫人 Mrs. Bernstein.
珀金斯先生 Mr. Perkins.
有什么能帮你的吗？ What can I do for you?
这句话应该由我来问你 珀金斯先生 It's rather what can I do for you, Mr. Perkins.
我注意到 汤姆将他的新书献给了你 I couldn't help noticing Tom dedicated his new book to you.
如果你还记得的话 他的上一本书是献给我的 He dedicated his first book to me, you will recall.
也许你会说我多虑了 It was a lovely sentiment...
但他当时的原话其实是，“谢谢你 再见” but what he was actually saying was, "Thank you and goodbye."
我已经失去了用途 I had served my purpose.
而现在 轮到你了 And now, you have served yours.
“谢谢你 珀金斯先生 再见” "Thank you and goodbye, Mr. Perkins."
恕我直言 伯恩斯坦夫人 With respect, Mrs. Bernstein...
你对我和汤姆之间的关系 根本一点都不了解 you haven't the slightest notion of my relationship with Tom.
- 考虑到这一点… - 他让你帮他做很多事 - And in view of that... - He makes you do things...
在此之前 你根本不知道自己有这样的能力 他释放你的潜能 you never thought you'd do. He liberates you.
当你已经习惯这一切改变的时候 And just when you have come to depend upon that...
他将会离开你 he will leave you.
至此以后 你将永远不会感觉到充实与活力 And you will never feel so alive again.
抱歉 伯恩斯坦夫人 我知道这段时期对你而言 非常难熬 I'm sorry, Mrs. Bernstein. I know this has been hard on you.
无论他对你造成了什么样的伤害 Whatever pain he's caused you...
我只希望他不是有意而为 I can only hope he didn't mean it.
你能把他在欧洲的地址告诉我吗？ Can you give me his address in Europe?
他让我别说 He asked me not to.
那你能告诉我 他什么时候回来吗？ Can you tell me when he's coming home?
也不行 I don't think so.
也就是说 So...
他的世界里已经没有我了 I don't exist anymore.
我被编辑删除了 I've been edited.
我还没决定 这一枪应该打谁 I haven't quite decided who I'm going to shoot yet.
汤姆 Tom...
我自己 myself...
还是你 or you.
你有什么建议吗？ Have you a suggestion?
自杀看起来极端了点 Suicide seems a bit extreme.
杀死汤姆 也不会改变任何事情 And killing Tom won't help much.
所以只剩下我了 So I suppose that leaves me.
确实是这样 I suppose it does.
这件事真的是你多虑了 伯恩斯坦夫人 You're overwriting the scene, Mrs. Bernstein.
等着瞧吧 珀金斯先生 We shall see, Mr. Perkins.
对于即将发生在你身上的事 我深表歉意 I am very sorry for what's going to happen to you.
我是真心的 Truly, I am.
当你还有机会和汤姆相处的时候 牢牢把握住 Enjoy the time with Tom while you have it...
因为他离开以后… because after him...
…生活将会变得了无生趣 there is a great hush.
嘿 很高兴见到你 Hey, good to see you.
麦克斯！ Max!
汤姆！ Tom!
见到你真高兴 汤姆 Wonderful to see you, Tom.
- 我有好多话想对你讲 - 的士在等我们呢 - But we need to talk. - I have a taxi waiting.
见鬼 不！让的士把我的行李载回去吧 Heck, no! Taxi can take my luggage.
不坐的士 不坐火车 不坐公交 No taxis or trains or buses or automation.
我只想走走 I have to ambulate.
我迫切地想要感受这片故土 I have to feel my country again.
- 你先走吧 - 谢谢你 先生 - You go ahead. - Thank you, sir.
你不知道我有多想你 You don't know how much I missed you.
噢 我也很想你 汤姆 但有件事很重要 我必须先跟你讲 Oh, I missed you too, Tom, but this is important.
艾琳来我的办公室找我 还带了一把枪 Aline came to the office and she has a gun.
一把真枪 An actual gun.
让她见鬼去吧 Hell with her.
我离开太久了 I've been away so long...
我们应该为我回到美国这个最伟大的国家 we have to celebrate my return to the greatest of nations...
好好庆祝一番 with all things American.
我想吃维也纳香肠 逛逛这座城市 I have to eat some wieners and, and walk the city...
然后再喝点带劲的酒 and drink us some serious liquor.
一个人真的可以做到吗？ I mean, can one man do it?
真正客观地去记录他自己的一生？ Write his whole life story fairly?
说实话吗？比如普鲁斯特 Honestly? Like Proust...
他写的自传就很真实 不加修饰 without all the upholstery.
当然 Well, sure.
《时光与河流》所讲述的故事之后 我便遇见了艾琳 Now, Of Time and the River stopped when I met Aline.
我打算接下来描述这一段经历 I'll have to write about that next.
- 她不会乐意的 - 她一定会喜欢的！ - She won't like it. - She'll love it!
这会让她留名百世 It'll make her immortal.
噢 麦克斯 快看 Oh, Max, look at this.
我们的国家到底怎么了 麦克斯？ What's happening to our country, Max?
- 真是太没用了 - 什么？ - It's so frivolous. - What?
我的工作 写文章 What I do. Writing books.
这些人永远也没机会读到它们 These folks will never read.
记录我的人生轨迹 并不能帮助到他们 Telling my life story like it's important to them.
这些人连饭都吃不饱 These people are starving.
嘿 跟我来 Hey, come with me.
来啊 Come on.
你一定是在跟我开玩笑 You have got to be kidding me.
这值得你冒这个险 我保证 It'll be worth it, I promise.
我骗过你吗？ Have I ever lied to you?
我们这种行为应该符合 This would fall under the general category...
非法入侵的范畴了 of breaking and entering.
就当冒个险吧 Let's have an adventure.
该死！ Damn!
真不敢相信 I don't believe it.
我们究竟是为什么要来这里？ Why on earth are we here?
这里是我来纽约 住的第一个地方 This is where I first lived when I came to New York.
我就是在这里完成《天使，望故乡》的 This is where I wrote Look Homeward, Angel.
每当黄昏时分 我便会上来 I would come here every twilight...
俯瞰这座城市 and look at the city...
梦想我之后的生活 and dream of what my life might be...
直到天边显现星星的身影 till the stars came out.
夜空中的星星 The stars in the sky.
还有大楼里闪耀的灯光 The lights in the buildings.
所有光亮交织在一起 All those lights.
还有生命的力量 All the power of life.
你所做的并非一点用处都没有 汤姆 You're not frivolous, Tom.
我想石器时代的时候 I think back in the caveman days...
我们的祖先每到夜晚 都会围坐在火堆旁 our ancestors would huddle around the fire at night...
狼会在黑夜里嚎叫 好像随时会从周围的草丛里蹦出来 and wolves would be howling in the dark, just beyond the light.
这时就会有一个人开始讲话 And one person would start talking.
他会讲一个故事 And he would tell a story...
这样大家就不会感到害怕了 so we wouldn't be so scared in the dark.
我回来的时候 想看看校稿 I guess I'll have to look at the proofs when I get back.
可以吗？ Is that all right?
要去多久？ How long?
如果我还活着 也就几个月吧 Well, if I don't get shot, a couple of months.
告诉你 这次的目的地是西班牙 I'm telling you, Spain is where the action's going to be.
[海明威是一名斗牛粉丝 他在小说《午后之死》中尽情描写和赞美了这项传统] 你已经写过一本关于斗牛的书了啊 You've already done a bullfighting book.
恐怕世界现在的格局 Nah, it's not bullfighting this time.
已不再安定了 World has gone beyond that, I'm afraid.
到处都是战火连连 It's war that's coming.
那你还去？ And you need to be there?
我得找点事做啊 Well, I need to be somewhere.
我想再次感受一下为生活而奋斗的激情 懂吗？ I need to feel the old lucha por la vida, you know?
为生存而战 不然活着还有什么意义？ The struggle for life. What else is there?
把鱼吊起来 小伙子们 我们拍张照纪念一下 Hoist her up, boys. We want to take a photograph.
好的 按他说的做 All right, you heard him.
那么 So...
从伟大的阿什维尔走出来的缪斯 最近如何？ how's the muse from greater Asheville doing?
神啊救救我吧 他又在写新书 He's writing a new book, God help me.
你看《时光与河流》了吗？ Did you read Of Time and the River?
废话 Crap.
这个年轻人太过傲慢 太过于追求所谓名望 The boy has serious delusions of importance.
他在文中夸夸其谈 言辞粗鲁 And he's been mouthing off to the press too much.
叫他管好自己的嘴 好好写文章吧 Tell him to shut the hell up and stick to his pencil.
你知道汤姆 他就是有点精力过盛 Well, you know Tom. He's exuberant.
胡说 他是开始将读者对他的评价 一一与自己对应了 Bullshit. He's starting to believe what they say about him.
菲茨杰拉德也是同样的情况 Same thing that happened to Fitzgerald.
被人无数次地夸赞自己是文坛巨匠 Gets to hear he's the great man of letters so many times...
于是他便开始相信这一点了 he starts to believe it.
于是他便开始想方设法地达到这些赞誉 到最后只能停笔 Then he's got to live up to it and then he stops writing.
汤姆会一直写下去的 这种天赋是流淌在他血液里的 Tom has to write. It's in his blood.
五年前大家对斯科特 不是也说过同样的话吗 Well, they said the same thing about Scott five years ago.
他是我所认识的最为格调高尚的作家 Most elegant writer I ever knew.
而现在 这个可怜的家伙 Now the poor son of a bitch...
连一个简单的句子都写不出来 更别提养家糊口了 can't string five words together to save his own life.
你知道汤姆迟早会离开你 You know Tom will leave you soon.
我不这么认为 I don't think so.
你觉得哈珀斯和麦克米伦那群混蛋 You don't think those bastards at Harper's and Macmillan...
不会在汤姆旁边说你坏话？ aren't pouring poison in his ear already?
汤姆是不会听的 Tom won't listen.
你也看见《时光与河流》前面的赠言了 You saw the dedication in Time and the River.
对 我是看到了 Yeah, I did.
感觉更像是为你写的墓志铭 A bit like something on a tombstone.
走吧 我们去跟钓上来的鱼合张影 Come on, let's take a photo with your catch.
我把照片裱好后 再给你送去 I'll get him mounted and send him to you.
我们的女儿在瓦萨尔学院的学习非常成功 她… Our daughter's going gangbusters at Vassar. She's...
好像对戏剧产生了非常大的兴趣 She seems to have developed an affection for drama.
她甚至想成为一名演员 She might even be an actress.
所以她想和你谈谈 路易丝 She wants to talk to you about it, Louise.
噢 我非常乐意 Oh, I would love to.
- 一定是汤姆来了 - 我去开门 - That must be Tom. - I'll get it.
汤姆来了 亲爱的 他来看你了 It's Tom, honey. He's come to see you.
快开门 麦克斯韦尔！快让我进去 Come on, Maxwell! Let me in, now.
- 汤姆 慢点 - 斯科特在哪儿？ - Tom, easy. - Where is Scott?
你应该晚点再喝酒 You might have waited to start drinking.
我… 我想见斯科特 I... I have to see Scott.
汤姆 Tom.
- 斯科特 斯科特！ - 汤姆！看着我 - Scott. Scott! - Tom! Look at me.
塞尔达刚刚出院 她的精神状态不是很好 Zelda's just out of the hospital and she's not well...
所以看在上帝的份上 你先不要进去 so for God's sake, don't start in.
听你说的什么话 我是那么粗鲁的人吗 Listen to you. I'm not some rude mechanical.
- 斯科特！你这个老家伙 - 汤姆！ - Scott! You old bastard. - Tom!
我每次都想跟麦克斯对峙 我是说… I tried to tell that to Max. I mean...
告诉我 斯科特… Tell me, Scott. Does...
他有没有… 让你删减很多的内容？ Does he... does he make you take a lot out?
他对我没什么要求 He doesn't make me do anything.
那他有“建议”你 删减很多内容吗？ Well, does he advise you to take a lot out?
我们写的东西是不同类型的 汤姆 We're different writers, Tom.
此话怎讲？ How's that?
我一般不写长篇小说 I don't write such long books.
- 不想写还是写不出来啊？ - 汤姆！ - Don't or can't? - Tom!
直说吧 斯科特 Just say it, Scotty.
写短篇又没什么好丢脸的 There's no shame in writing short...
但我觉得你的状态好像差得有点太过了 though I think you've taken it a bit too far.
我是说 I mean, come on.
你还写得出来一篇完整的小说吗？嗯？ Are you gonna write another novel?
麦克斯 我听说你终于和欧内斯特 一起出海钓鱼了 Max, I hear you finally went fishing with Ernest.
没错 在基韦斯特岛的深海域 Yes, in the wilds of darkest Key West.
- 不要无视我 - 够了 - Don't ignore me. - That's enough.
不要假装看不见我 天啊！ Don't pretend I'm not here. Jesus Christ!
我知道这几年 你连一个字都没有逼出来 I know goddamn well you ain't written a word in years.
这又不是我的错 Don't blame me for that.
- 你给我起来！ - 什么？干嘛？怎么了？ - Come on, get up! - What? What? Why?
- 你得离开了 - 我们要去哪儿？ - You're leaving. - Where are we going?
- 给我出去 - 为什么？ - Get out. - Why?
没事 亲爱的 没事 It's all right, my sweetheart. It's all right.
别担心 没事 Stay calm. It's all right.
你应该告诉他 让他把她寄送在什么地方 You should tell him to put her away somewhere...
然后回去好好写作 and get back to work.
他… 但他可能已经没什么灵感了 He... He's probably past it now.
可能连一本完整的作品都完成不了 Couldn't make a whole book...
但退一万步讲 他多少还是剩下点天赋啊 but he's still got some talent around the edges.
“消褪的壮丽” 我猜你会这么形容 Faded grandeur, I suppose you'd call it.
或者他会这么形容自己 但是… Or he'd call it. But that...
你能闭嘴吗？ Would you shut up?
我们认识了这么多年 It amazes me, still...
但没想到你竞如此残忍 after all these years, how cruel you can be.
我… 只是实话实说 I... I'm only being honest.
你可曾站在斯科特的角度 想象他现在的境况？ Did you ever once try to imagine how it is for Scott?
我… 为什么要这么做？ Why... Why would I?
你今天写了多少字？ How many words did you write today?
- 什么？ - 我问你 你今天写了多少字？ - What? - How many words did you write today?
- 差不多五千 - 而斯科特可能只写了一百字不到 - Maybe 5,000. - Scott wrote maybe 100.
这还是在他今天状态比较好的情况下 If today was a good day. If today was a great day.
他很想像你一样 思如泉涌 笔下生风 And he needs to write as much as you do.
但现在几乎每个字 都是他竭思尽力抠出来的 He fights over every word.
所以啊 他应该在努力一点 Then, he should fight more.
他妻子疯了！ His wife is going mad!
而且现在基本上没人在乎他写了什么 Nobody cares about what he writes...
更别提记住他了 or even remembers him anymore.
你能想象这是种什么感觉吗？ Can you imagine what that's like?
别把他的软弱怪罪在我身上 Don't blame me for his weakness.
看见你如此冷漠的表现 让我很心痛 It hurts me to see you so cruel.
所以我又让您失望咯 So I've disappointed you yet again.
对 非常失望 Yes, very much.
很抱歉 我没那么体面 Well, I'm sorry I'm not decent enough...
配不上你完美的晚宴 和你完美的朋友 for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends.
但在你把我拖出来之前 But before you drag me out to the woodshed...
你应该搞清楚 到底是谁需要被教育 I think you ought to look at who's giving the lesson.
我应该变成像你这种人吗？ Am I supposed to grow up like you?
不 汤姆 但你确实应该长大了 No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up.
你怎么敢说出这样的话？ How dare you?
你 还有其他人 你们所有人！ You, of all people. You, of all goddamn people!
你只不过是一个懦夫！ You're nothing but a coward!
被困在那个狭小枯乏的办公室里 Stuck in that sterile little office.
你身体里所有美好的品质 都被扼杀了 Every beautiful thing in you stunted.
你跟本就不懂活着是一种怎样的感受！ You don't have the first idea what it is to be alive!
你根本就不知道 每天早上醒来 You don't know what it is to wake up...
紧握机遇 为生活而奋斗是怎样一种感受 and grab hold of life every day and fight with it.
你活得太畏首畏脚了 You're just so goddamn scared to live.
生活还有其他种方式！ There are other ways to live!
比如爱你的孩子们 呵护他们健康成长 There's loving your children and seeing them grow up right.
比如养家糊口 There's providing for your family.
比如从事重要且有利于他人的工作 There's doing work that's important and giving to other people.
- 别说了 - 不 我一再地忍受你 - That's enough. - No, I've taken your abuse...
是因为我告诉我自己 你值得我这么做 'cause I told myself you were worth it...
你的作品值得我这么做 that the work was worth it.
但祈求上帝帮帮爱你的每一个人 汤姆 But God help anyone who loves you, Tom.
因为纵使你说过这么多话 Because for all your talk...
写了这么多华丽而绚烂的辞藻 and all your millions of beautiful words...
但你还是不懂活着的意义 you haven't the slightest idea of what it means to be alive...
比如看着一个人的眼睛 向他表示同情和怜悯 to look into another person's eyes and ache for him.
希望有一天你能懂 I hope someday you will.
只有到那时候你写的东西 才配得上与斯科特的作品相提并论 And then maybe all your words will be worth five of Scott's.
麦克斯以为自己创造了我 知道吗？ Max thinks he created me. You know that?
就像卖花女一样 Like Pygmalion.
他以为… 自己发现了卡罗莱娜·克莱身上的肿块 He thinks... He thinks he found this ugly lump of Carolina clay...
还想将它移植到我身上 and molded it into me.
有人说我的书根本不是我自己写的 有人说我根本就不会写作 They say I don't even write my own books. They say I can't write my own books.
书的成功都要归功于麦克斯 和他巧妙的编辑 It's all because of Max and his brilliant editing.
这种话我走到哪儿 听到哪儿 I hear it everywhere I go.
没有了麦克斯 我就不能成功吗？ Wouldn't I be lost without Max?
没有了伟大的麦克斯韦尔·珀金斯 我该怎么办？ What would I do without the great Maxwell Perkins?
所以他终于和你对峙了 So he finally stood up to you.
真有他的 Good for him.
说出来你肯定不信 你知道哈珀斯的人 You wouldn't believe how much the folks at Harper's...
给我的新书开了什么价吗 offered me for my new book.
你接受了 There it is.
我拒绝了他们 I told them no.
你告诉他们你要考虑一下 You told them maybe.
你对所有人都是这么回答的 You tell everyone maybe.
而现在你要接受他们的开价 And now you're going to tell them yes.
嘿 我想出去旅行一下 Hey, I'm thinking of taking a trip.
度个假 A vacation, like.
买一辆二手车 然后一直往前开 Buying an old car and just driving off.
可以去加利福尼亚看看 Maybe see California.
去看看那些阳光普照的地方 All those sun-kissed locales.
你为什么不一起去呢？ Why don't you come?
我是认真的 I mean it.
让我们一同启程 再好好找一次乐子 Let's hit the road and have some fun again.
就你和我 You and me.
像以前那样 Like it used to be.
就你和我 You and me...
屏蔽掉周围的所有人 No one else in the world even exists.
嗯… 就我们两个的二人世界 We're in our own private cathedral.
这旅程听上去不是很有趣吗？ Doesn't that sound like a momentous journey?
你需要花时间一个人静一下 You need to spend time alone.
我是个作家 I'm a writer.
我的工作就是一个人待着 All I do is spend time alone.
不 你写东西的时候 是和书里的角色待在一起的 No, you spend time with your characters.
你从没独立过 You've never been alone.
一开始有你的家人 然后有我 First you had your family, then you had me...
接着就是麦克斯 then you had Max.
你需要感受一下一个人的生活 You need to spend time alone.
看看到时候 你该如何度过自己的每一天 You need to look at how you move through your life.
你伤害了我 You hurt me.
接着又要伤害麦克斯 你不应该到处乱插刀子 You're going to hurt Max. You shouldn't hurt anyone else.
人是有感情的 感情不是虚构的 Human beings aren't fiction.
你根本无法想像 我到底经历了什么 You have no idea what I had to go through...
才能把你放下 to get to where I am now.
而现在我能就这么看着你 So I can look at you...
但心里却 and feel...
毫无波澜 nothing.
你知道门在哪里 You know the way out.
[斯克里布纳之子公司] [出版社&书商 创立于1846年]
我最后一次看见我父亲 The last time I saw my father...
是通过火车的车窗 I was standing at a train window...
当时我正准备北上 去上大学 when I went north to college.
列车缓缓开启 他的身影 He just got smaller and smaller...
却变得越来越小 as we pulled away...
直到最后他完全消失在我的视野之中 until I couldn't see him anymore.
那列火车带领我走向自己的未来 That train carried me to my life.
翻过千山 趟过万水 Beyond the hills and over the rivers.
始终不变的是 河流永不停息地流淌 And always, the rivers run.
有时它会背离我的父亲 越淌越远 Sometimes they flow away from my father...
而有时 它又会流回他的门前 and sometimes they flow back to his door.
我能靠自己成功 这一点我必须证明 I have to prove I can do it by myself.
那就证明看看 Then prove it.
斯科特 Scott.
我知道事情过去一段时间了 但我还是想说声抱歉 I know it was a while ago but I'm sorry.
我是个该死的混蛋 I was a damn brute.
如果你现在把门摔在我脸上 我也不会怪你的 I wouldn't blame you if you slammed the door in my face.
你不知道我为当时 You don't know how sorry I am...
像那样和你 和塞尔达说话 有多自责 for talking to you and Zelda like that.
求你了 希望你原谅我 Please, say you forgive me.
信不信由你 我也喝醉过一两次 Believe it or not, I've been drunk myself once or twice.
谢谢 Thank you.
作为编剧来讲 我还是挺失败的 I'm still a bit of a washout as a screenwriter.
在没有灵感的时候 我确实写不出什么好东西 I just can't make the grade as a hack.
即使是写剧本 也是需要不断练习的 Even that requires a certain practiced excellence.
我真的非常高兴能见到你 斯科特 I'm mighty glad to see you, Scott.
这几个月 我一直在到处走走看看 I've been rambling around for months now.
都没找到什么可以一起谈论作品的人 Haven't had anybody to talk to about work.
啊 作品 Ah. Work.
我就想 应该找谁来谈谈呢？ I mean, who better to talk to?
一定是创造了不朽杰作的人 The man who created something immortal.
现在我一直被一个概念所困扰 并且越发的纠结 More and more, I trouble myself with that.
“传奇人物” "The legacy."
一百年后还有人记得托马斯·乌尔夫吗？十年后呢？ Will anyone care about Thomas Wolfe in 100 years? Ten years?
我年轻的时候 也几乎每天问自己这个问题 When I was young, I asked myself that question every day.
但现在 我常常自问“我还能写出一句好句子吗？” Now, I ask myself, "Can I write one good sentence?"
你怎么能这么说呢？难道你不想被世人铭记？ How can you say that? Don't you want to be remembered?
对于这种华而不实 天花乱坠的幻想 This Side of Paradise was just put out of print...
我早在十八年前就逐渐淡去了 for the first time in 18 years.
- 《盖茨比》会是下一部流传不息的杰作 - 不可能 - Gatsby will go next. - That'll never happen.
你知道去年我依靠《盖茨比》的稿费 赚了所少钱吗？ You know how much I made in royalties on Gatsby last year?
两块一毛三 Two dollars and 13 cents.
但我不在乎 反正现在我有其他工作 But I don't mind. I'm working now.
我的邻居是个配音演员 My next-door neighbor is a radio actress.
她偶尔会排练一下自己的尖叫声和笑声 She periodically rehearses her screams and laughter.
真让人不安 That's a little disquieting.
噢 相信我 笑声还要可怕 Oh, the laughing's worse. Trust me.
- 你最近跟麦克斯谈过吗？ - 噢 别跟我提麦克斯 - You spoken to Max lately? - Oh, don't talk about Max.
为什么 汤姆？ Why not, Tom?
我知道他是你朋友 但你无法想象 I know he's your friend, but you have no idea.
他拖了我后腿 He crippled me.
毁了我的作品 He deformed my work.
他自己都承认了 He as much admitted it.
然后他还想把我的成功 全部归功于自己 And then he tried to take all the credit for my success.
他不是这种人 你知道自己伤他有多深吗？ He did no such thing. Do you know how much you hurt him?
我们那是互相伤害 We hurt each other.
别跟我油嘴滑舌的 汤姆 Don't be glib with me, Tom.
你不知道他对我做了什么 You don't know what he did to me.
- 他对你做了什么？ - 啊哈 - What he did to you? - Ah!
他做了什么？他帮你实现了自己的所有梦想 What did he do? He made all your dreams come true.
他给了你一份工作 一个新的生活！ He gave you a career, a life!
你这回答也太官方了吧 我还以为你能说些与众不同的呢 There. The Scribner party line. I expected more from you.
当其他人都对你冷眼相向的时候 这个好心人选择了相信你 That decent man believed in you when nobody else would.
他将所有的希望和梦想 都倾注于你 He poured all his hopes and dreams into you.
所有他不曾做过的事 他都做了 所有他不曾触碰的文学形式 他都尝试了 All the things he would never do, all the books he would never write.
现在倒好 你却以不堪的谴责和冷漠来回报他 And now you repay him with ugly accusations and brutality.
你应该为自己感到羞耻！ You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
那个男人发掘了你 你却把这一份友谊 That man has a genius for friendship...
肆意丢弃 and you've squandered it.
总会有一天 There will come a day...
你不会像现在这样风光无限 when you're not the success you are now.
你的路还长着呢 相信我 It's a long road then, believe me.
为什么要伤害一个 愿意为你分担 愿和你同行的人的心呢？ Why hurt the one man who will walk on that road with you?
爸爸？ Daddy?
你好啊 小甜心 Hello, puppet.
为什么汤姆不来我们家了？ Why doesn't Tom come around anymore?
噢 南希 Oh, Nancy.
汤姆需要一个人静一静 Tom needs some time for himself.
那他会回来吗？ Is he coming back?
应该不会了 I don't think so.
知道吗 汤姆是那种 See, Tom's the kind of fellow...
需要自己出去闯荡 喜欢自食其力的人 who needs to make his own way through life.
- 他是生我们气了吗？ - 没有 亲爱的 - Is he mad at us? - No, honey.
没有 有时你身边的人 会就这么离开 No, sometimes people just go away.
他们必须成长 离家打拼 They have to grow up, leave home.
你也会经历这样的事情 It'll happen to you, too.
可怜的爸爸 我也很想他 Poor Daddy. I miss him, too.
这样吧 你把他的书拿来 Tell you what. Get me his book.
“天意引领一个英国人与一个荷兰人相遇已足够奇怪了” "A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough...
“更别提从埃普索姆到宾夕法尼亚” "but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania...
“而后又走进那静矗于阿尔塔蒙特中的山谷中了” "and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont...
“那循着日出时公鸡高亢的啼鸣” "over the proud coral cry of the cock...
“还有天使温柔而坚毅的微笑之光” "and the soft stone smile of an angel...
“想必是被那晦暗不清的奇妙机遇所触碰了” "is touched by that dark miracle of chance...
“为尘世增添了新的魔力” "Which makes new magic in a dusty world.
“每一刻都是这四万年光景所孕育的” "Each moment is the fruit of40, 000 years.
“日复一日 人们苍蝇般地飞向死亡寻找归宿” "The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death...
“每一刻都像是 可以窥视整个历史的一扇窗口” "and every moment is a window on all time.
“就好像一个在极夜中 逐渐失去知觉的人” "And like a man who is perishing in the polar night...
“他脑海中 一定闪回着他年轻时 那一大片葱郁的草地” "he thought of the rich meadows of his youth...
“玉米” "the corn...
“李子树…” "the plum tree...
“…还有初熟的大麦” "and ripe grain.
“为什么我在这里？” "Why here?
“啊 迷失！” "O lost!"
珀金斯先生 有你的电话 Mr. Perkins, you have a call.
汤姆的母亲打来的 From Tom's mother.
乌尔夫夫人？ Mrs. Wolfe?
有谁得过这种病吗？ Who even heard of such a thing?
脑结核 Tuberculosis of the brain.
听起来像是现编的名字 Doesn't even seem real.
就因为这突如其来的 奇怪的病 一个人就这么倒下了？ To be brought low by such a strange and sudden thing?
医生们已经在尽力抢救了 They're doing everything they can.
我还能怪谁呢？ Who would credit it?
我现在还能怪谁呢？ Who would credit it, now?
怎么了？ What's that?
这么多地方 他偏偏选择了这里 That he should end up here, of all places.
当汤姆倒下之后 他们把他送来这里进行手术 When Tom collapsed out west they brought him back here for the surgery.
他们说 这里是巴尔的摩最好的医院 Best place for it, they said. Right here in Baltimore.
但是他的父亲就是在这里去世的 His father died in this very hospital...
就死在走廊上 just along the hall.
看起来 汤姆的一生 It's like Tom's whole life is leading him...
就好比是一条河流 将他引领到了父亲门前 like a river, back to his father.
医生说他脑中长满了肿块 The surgeon said his brain was filled with tumors.
大量的肿块 A myriad of tumors.
他就是用的这个词 That's the word he used...
“大量的” "Myriad."
我觉得汤姆会喜欢这种说法的 I think Tom would like that.
他们也无能为力了 There's nothing they can do, you see.
医生说他只有几个星期可活了 The doctor said it was a matter of weeks.
也许在此期间能恢复意识 也许就这么一直睡过去了 Might regain consciousness, most likely not.
不 你陪着南希 No, you stay with Nancy.
你应该帮她做做思想准备 You should, you know, prepare her.
毕竟她最喜欢汤姆了 She always loved Tom the most.
“大量的”这个词的复数应该是在后面加个s The plural of "myriad" is "myriads", by the way.
乌尔夫先生？ Mr. Wolfe?
给我笔 Pencil.
不 不 乌尔夫先生 抱歉 请你躺好 Oh, no, Mr. Wolfe, I'm sorry, you just lie still.
我去叫医生来 I'll get the doctor.
给我笔 Pencil.
下午好 珀金斯先生 Afternoon, Mr. Perkins.
下午好 詹姆斯 Afternoon, James.
[麦克斯韦尔·珀金斯(收)]
[约翰·霍普金斯医院]
亲爱的麦克斯 Dear Max...
我预感到自己的死亡 I've got a hunch.
所以把这些想对你说的话 写了下来 And I wanted to write these words to you.
我旅行了很长一段时间 来到一个陌生的国度 I've made a long voyage and been to a strange country...
和内心那个黑暗的自己面对面 and I've seen the dark man very close.
我不认为自己有多惧怕他 And I don't think I was too much afraid of him.
但我最想做的事 还是活下去 But I want most desperately to live.
我想再和你见一面 I want to see you again.
我有好多痛苦 好多抱歉 想要对你说 For there is such impossible anguish and regret...
但已经没有机会了 for all I can never say to you...
我还有好多的想法 没有付诸实践 for all the work I have to do.
这感觉就像是一扇窗口被打开 你之前的一生在你眼前回放 I feel as if a great window has been opened on life.
如果我能安然度过 And if I come through this...
我希望自己能成为一个更好的人 I hope to God I am a better man...
做到不辜负你的期望 and can live up to you.
但最重要的是 But most of all...
我想告诉你 无论发生什么 I wanted to tell you, no matter what happens...
我对你的感受都不会改变 I shall always feel about you...
都会像十一月的那天 the way I did that November day...
当你来码头接我 when you met me at the boat...
我们爬上楼顶 and we went on top of the building...
一起感受生命的冷暖 荣耀以及它所散发出来的力量那样 and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life were below.
你永远的朋友 Yours always...
汤姆 Tom.