第一集，感受漸增的驚奇
外面有些故事需要被講述 There are stories out there that need to be told.
外面有些鳥事真的就是… There's shit out there that's just...
錯的 you know, wrong.
這位是你的教授
人們需要知道 People need to know about it.
這就是職責所在 That's the job.
它並不複雜 It's not a complicated job,
只是會把你的人生搞得一團亂 other than how it'll mess with your life.
丹尼爾莫洛伊，調查記者
以前的新聞是一群 News used to be a bunch of guys
看起來像我一樣的人 擠在一張桌子旁開頭版會議 who look like me huddled around a desk at a Page One meeting
二獲普利策獎，《舊金山紀事報》《洛杉磯時報》，《衛報》 deciding what the news was.
決定頭版登什麼新聞 deciding what the news was.
但這該死的東西讓一切改變了 This little fucker changed all of that.
他的首次線上課程
我被三家報社開除，又被其中兩家雇回 I've been fired from three papers, hired back at two of them.
第三家被奈特裏德報業併吞了 Third got gobbled up by Knight Ridder.
先說清楚，什麼能做，什麼不能做 我該死的兼容並蓄 So, to be clear here, I'm a goddamn reservoir of do's and don'ts.
你們的新聞來源是你們的嚮導 Your sources are your Sherpas.
你們的編輯是你們的神父 Your editor is your priest.
誠實不是戰略 Honesty is not a tactic.
調查研究，尋找新聞來源及文件
查核資訊，為訪問進行準備 新聞業的未來
這樣你還想做這份工作嗎？ You still want this job?
那是你的錢 It's your money.
我是丹尼爾莫洛伊 I'm Daniel Molloy.
這是我的…有俄羅斯 在背後撐腰的分離主義者 This is my-- The Russian backed separatists
自2014年起就開始進行遊擊戰 have been waging guerrilla warfare since 2014.
他可以讓自己的幻想成真嗎？ Can he make his fantasy a reality?
獲加在弧頂 Walker at the top of the key.
面對來自瓊斯的擋拆 Pick and roll from Jones.
獲加突破並以有難度的左手上籃 Walker drives and finishes.
完成得分 With a tough left hand.
這是獲加連續七次… That's seven straight for Walker...
嘿，醫生，對 Yeah. Hey, doc. Yeah.
謝謝你回電給我，我… Thanks for getting back to me. I, uh...
對，沒錯 Yes, that's right.
我…我這周稍晚有安排預約 I have... I have an appointment scheduled for later in the week,
但我…我想搞清楚的是 but the... the thing I'm trying to figure out is,
這個卑躬屈膝的行業是什麼狀況？ what's the deal with this subvariant business?
是比較有傳染力嗎？ I mean, is that more contagious?
還是…嗯哼 Is it... Uh-huh.
對，因為不需要再更… Yeah, 'cause, I mean, there's no reason to get more...
好 Okay.
所以你覺得…對，我就是那樣想的 So you think... Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm thinking.
為什麼要沒事找事？ Why get any closer to the bug than I... than I need to?
嗯哼 Uh-huh.
路易德普安特杜拉克
我再打給你 I gotta call you back.
嗯，第一個問題 Um, first question.
你不是生下來就是吸血鬼吧？ You weren't always a vampire, were you?
對 No.
我變成吸血鬼的時候33歲 I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire.
怎麼會這樣？ How did it come about?
這個問題可以簡單回答 There's a simple answer to that.
但我不想簡單回答 I don't believe I wanna give simple answers.
我想講述真正的故… I think I want to tell the real stor...
「親愛的莫洛伊先生 "Dear Mr. Molloy.
希望收到這封信時你安好順遂 I hope this letter finds you safe and thriving,
如果在這陰暗時刻有此可能的話」 if such a thing were a possibility in this bleak hour."
「自從上次見面後，我就一直 頗有興味地追蹤著你的職涯發展 "I've been following your career with some interest since our last meeting.
請容我恭祝你所有的成功 Please allow me to congratulate you on all your successes,
那些職涯上和個人的成功救贖 those professional and those personally redemptive.
時間的過去及隨之而來的弱點 The passage of time and the frailties
讓我有所洞察 that accompany it have provided me perspective.
我想你亦然 And I suspect the same might be for you, as well.
我希望健康 I'm hoping health
和傲慢不會讓你對接下來的提議卻步 and pride won't deter you from the following proposal.
一周內 In a week's time,
在我所選擇的環境下 in a setting of my choosing,
我們重啟那個因年少無知 而未能完成的計劃 we revisit the project boyish youth prevented us from finishing.
49年後，在距我們於舊金山 共享的那間房的 49 years and thousands of miles removed from the room
數千里外之處 we shared in San Francisco,
為滿足你新聞從業人員的樂趣，我給你 I offer, for your journalistic pleasures,
我的全神貫注和我的人生故事 my full attention and my life story.
誠摯地 All affinities,
路易德普安特杜拉克」 Louis de Pointe du Lac."
我跟我的編輯說我要跟… I told my editor I was meeting with the,
呃，世界上最危險的男人見面 uh, most dangerous man in the world.
我給他兩個選項 Gave him two choices.
結果他回我「貝索斯、普京」 He came back with "Bezos. Putin."
他以為我在普拉斯科維亞夫科 He thinks I'm in Praskoveyevka.
你變老了，丹尼爾 You've grown old, Daniel.
對啊 Yeah, well,
歲月不饒凡人 mortality beats a heavy drum.
我本來不確定你記不記得我 I wasn't sure you'd remembered me.
你書裏對我們上次會面隻字未提 Your book makes no mention of our prior meeting.
回憶錄的重點是藥物、羞辱 跟自憐自艾之類的 Gritty memoir, drugs, humiliation, self-pity kind of thing.
寫吸血鬼會被讀者說是鬼扯 Mention vampires in one of those, readers tend to call bullshit.
你最近有一些健康疑慮 You've had some health concerns of late.
地球上誰沒有病 Whole planet's having a moment, I'd say.
你有柏金遜癥，丹尼爾 You have Parkinson's disease, Daniel.
對 Yeah.
而你是在機場有自己的機棚 And you've got your own hangar at the airport,
享有皇家邁丹大橋使用特權 privileges on the Royal Meydan Bridge,
在網絡上零存在感 and zero presence online.
我惹怒你了嗎？ Have I hit a nerve?
我知道阿聯酋非常注重隱私 I know the Emirates are big on privacy,
所以那可能對你來說很重要 and that's probably important to you,
但我不得不問 but I gotta ask,
這樣半個世紀都不會老 what does it cost, this haven't-aged-in- half-a-century,
被超殺風景環繞的低調 背後的代價是什麼？ killer-views-in- all-directions anonymity?
代價蠻大的 Quite a lot.
只有我的家人跟醫生知道我病了 Only my family and my doctor know I'm sick.
我不想被單方面刺探 I don't dig the one-way hack.
好嗎？ Yeah?
還有一個問題 And here's another question.
太陽就在外面那裏 That's the sun out there.
你的棺材在哪裏？ Where's your coffin?
你就站在裏面 You're standing in it.
我對請進家門的人要非常謹慎 I have to be very careful whom I let in.
對，上次不歡而散 Yeah, well, things didn't end well the last time,
所以如果我有點緊張，請體諒一下 so forgive me if I'm a little nervous.
這個！在我跟你說了全部之後 This, after all I've told you,
你就是這樣報答我的嗎，男孩？ is what you ask for, boy?!
對，你不瞭解人類生活 Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like.
你忘記了，老兄 I mean, you've forgotten, man.
你連自己故事的意義 I mean, you don't even understand
都不瞭解！ the meaning of your own story!
不！嘿，停！ No! Hey, stop!
你當時很沒禮貌 You were disrespectful.
我情緒很高昂 I was high.
你當時不配聽我的故事 You were not worthy of my story then.
可能你的故事沒那麼值得被講述 Maybe your story wasn't worth telling.
錄音帶在你手上，去請個謄寫員 You've got the tapes. Hire a transcriber.
我不寫吹捧文了 I don't do puff portraiture anymore.
但你還是在疫情下 And yet, you got on a plane,
帶著自體免疫性疾病坐上了飛機 with an auto-immune disease, in the middle of a pandemic.
好吧 Alright.
那是我的聲音，但我不記得了 That's my voice, but I don't remember it.
我問題都問錯了 I ask all the wrong questions.
對 Yes.
你的故事裏有矛盾，我卻從未深究 There's contradictions in your story I never follow up on.
對 Yes.
我問的幾個好問題 The few good ones I do manage to get out,
都被你壓掉了，那不是訪問 you steamroll over them. It's not an interview.
那是… It's a...
那是一個說給白癡聽的怪夢 It's a fever dream told to an idiot.
對 Yes.
那你呢？ And you?
為什麼想再來一次？什麼東西改變了？ Why again? What's changed?
整個世界、情勢 The world, circumstances.
我，我改變了 Me, I've changed.
我也覺得錄音內容有所不足 And I, too, find the tapes lacking.
所以… So...
從頭來過 a do-over.
真相跟和解 Truth and reconciliation.
我問問題 I ask the questions.
你回答，任何無法查證的 You answer the questions. Anything that can't be verified,
我會寄給我的研究員 I send to my researcher.
不能有第三方 No third parties.
內容我寫 I write it.
你可以在送印前先看過 You get to see it before it goes to print.
但我可以做最後編修 I get the final edit.
這跟你簽署的同意書內容不符 That is not the agreement you signed.
還有一件事 And one more thing.
我一對一的時候表現最好 I do my best work one-on-one.
你可以去處理一下 莫洛伊先生的房間嗎？ Would you see to Mr. Molloy's room?
請主廚幫他準備一頓餐 Have Chef prepare a meal for him.
我想等我們的男孩休息好再開始比較好 I think it best we start when our boy's had a rest.
我不是你該死的男孩 I am not your fucking boy.
我是一個毛病一堆的老頭 I'm an old man with all the triggers that come with it.
而且我準備好了 And I'm ready.
所以我們開始吧 So let's do this.
我是丹尼爾莫洛伊 I'm Daniel Molloy.
現在是早上10點08分 2022年6月14日 It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2022.
我在艾爾什瑞夫塔頂層公寓裏 I'm in the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers
對面坐著… across from Mister...
路易德普安特杜拉克 Louis de Pointe du Lac.
好… So...
杜拉克先生… Mr. du Lac...
你死了多久？ how long have you been dead?
當時是1910年 The year was 1910,
我父親過世後的第五年秋天 the fall of the fifth year of my father's passing
也是我擔任 德普安特杜拉克家族遺囑執行人的 and the fall of the fifth year as the executor in charge
第五年秋天 of the de Pointe du Lac family trust.
-最年長的兒子 -是最受寵的兒子 The eldest son. The favored son.
也因此接手掌管大規模的信託 And a sizable trust to oversee as a consequence.
資本來自蔗糖園的累積 看起來像我曾祖父一樣的 Capital accrued from plantations of sugar and the blood of men
有色人種 who looked like my great grandfather
沒有一個有他的名望 but did not have his standing.
後來好幾十年的吉姆克勞法 But then decades of Jim Crow
跟新世紀的電氣化 and the electrified light of a new century
摧毀了自由有色人種的概念 had vanquished any idea of a free man of color.
在紐奧良唯一能讓像我這樣膚色的紳士 So it followed the only place in New Orleans a gentleman
從事正當行業的地方 of my complexion could do a righteous business
只剩一個叫做史多瑞維爾的社區 was a neighborhood called Storyville.
那是舊紅燈區 That was the old red-light district.
對吧？ Yeah?
20個飲酒作樂、慾求不滿 吃喝嫖賭的街區 20 blocks of drinking, gambling, and gluttonous whoring.
好 Okay,
那身為家族資產高貴執行人的你 so as the honorable executor of the family's estate,
從事的究竟是什麼行業 you were in what business exactly,
杜拉克先生？ Mr. du Lac?
你可以說我經營 You could say I managed
並操作多元事業的投資組合 and operated a diversified portfolio of enterprises.
你是皮條客 You were a pimp.
我販售的商品是慾望 The product was desire,
它有多種形式，因為背後有各種驅動力 and it came in as many forms as there were ways to move it.
自由街上的20多間妓院 Of the two dozen sporting houses on Liberty Street,
有八間是我的 I owned eight of them.
跟貝森街上的相比較為秀氣 Modest in proportion to the venues on Basin Street.
規模和優雅上的不足 What they lacked in size and elegance,
用效率和名聲補足了 they more than made up for in efficiency and reputation.
杜拉克先生 Mr. du Lac.
芬恩 Finn.
你想要中飽私囊嗎？ You hiding any bills in them fat fucking rolls of yours?
不可否認地，我當時較為強悍 I was, admittedly, a rougher thing then.
杜拉克先生！ Mr. du Lac!
如果你想生存，就不得不如此 You had to be if you wanted to survive.
在自由街上你不能看起來軟弱無力 You couldn't look weak on Liberty Street.
該死，桃麗絲 Damn, Doris,
你這樣衝出來腿會被撞斷 you gon' lose your good leg runnin' out like that.
杜拉克先生，我們遇到了大麻煩 Mr. du Lac, sir, we got bad trouble.
我道歉 I apologize.
我只是要給你看我的愛而已 I was only tryna show you my love.
去你的 Fuck you.
怎麼了？ What happened?
那婊子打我！ The cunny hit me!
現在我變婊子啦？ Oh, I'm a cunny now?
一分鐘前我還是他的愛 A minute ago, I was his love.
奧爾德曼芬威克？ Alderman Fenwick?
嗯？ Hmm?
你打奧爾德曼家的人？ You hit an alderman?
該死，布蕾克絲 God damn it, Bricks.
他插進我的屁眼裏 He stuck it in my shitbox.
我沒有 I did no such thing.
我有給他機會拿出來，但他還是一直插 Gave him a chance to pull out, and he kept on fucking,
所以我就噴了一些 晚餐吃的鯰魚教訓他一下 so I gave him a little squirt of my catfish dinner for going there.
不信你去看他那根 Don't believe me, check his dick.
你是在跟誰說話？ Who the fuck you talkin' to?
我才不會看他那根 I ain't checkin' no man's dick.
哦，該死 Oh. Oh, goddamn.
如果你問一下，我可能還會答應 Hell, I mighta even said yes if you would just ask.
但我管你是誰 But I don't care who you is,
你沒問就插進屁眼 you put a dick in an asshole without asking,
是褻瀆耶穌 that's against Jesus.
去你的 Fuck you.
你們是在笑什麼？ What y'all laughin' at?
去請詹森醫生過來 Someone go and fetch Doc Johnson.
你去拿一些乾淨的水跟一條毛巾過來 And you, get some clean water and a towel.
手拿開，黑鬼！ Get your hands off me, nigger!
再說一次，你會讓我後悔幫你 You gon' make me regret my support, you repeat yourself,
芬威克先生 Mr. Fenwick.
我是路易德普安特杜拉克 Louis de Pointe du Lac, sir.
哦，普安特杜拉克 Oh, Pointe du Lac.
哦，原諒我 Oh, forgive me.
我…這…太多酒了 I... It was... There's so much wine.
沒事 Don't worry none.
這件事我們知道就好了 We'll keep this here 'tween us.
有人去請醫生來了 Someone got the good doc on the way.
哦，威廉絲小姐 Oh, Miss Williams.
她真是個美景 Isn't she a vision?
我不會清理他那根 I ain't cleanin' his dick.
哦，天啊 Oh, Jesus,
這裏有狀況，芬恩 Mary. Got a situation here, Finn.
對，你122外面也有狀況 Yeah, well, you got another one outside 122.
有人在鬧事，生意都被影響了 Man acting the maggot, driving away business.
我不就是請你來處理這種事的嗎？ Ain't that what I pay you for?
對方是公民神父 It's a citizen priest.
你不懂嗎，姐妹？ Do you not realize, sister,
你的身體是主耶穌的一部分 your body is part of Christ the Lord?
這個月第二次了 Second time this month.
如果你將那個身體 When you take that body
-拿去享受賣淫 -杜拉克先生，如果他是你弟弟 -and enjoin in harlotry -And I could give two moons
-你就是在褻瀆主 -我可以再忍兩天 -you are defiling the Lord. -if he's your brother, Mr. du Lac.
我要在龐恰特雷恩敲碎他的頭！ I'm gonna knock his skull in the Pontchartrain!
…你否認了和耶穌的共同勝利 ...you deny your victory with Christ.
祂將再次降臨，審判活人與死人 He shall come again to judge the living and the dead.
到時已經離開的人將再復活 And who has come and gone then will rise again
肉體將投入永恆之火中 with their bodies into everlasting fire.
回家 Go on home.
叫老媽不要等門 Tell Mama not to wait up.
你襯衫上有血漬 There's blood on your shirt.
今晚發生了什麼邪惡之事？ What wickedness is it tonight?
你這樣不是在幫我，保羅 You're not helping me here, Paul.
我是啊 Oh, but I am.
主叫我過來這裏，路易 The Lord told me to come, Louis.
很多聲音，在我的腦袋裏 In my head, like a family of birds,
像是一家子的鳥，但同時有一個聲音… many voices, but also one voice...
再說一次試試看 Saying it a second time.
拜託聽我說 Listen to me, please.
我今晚過得很糟，好嗎？ I'm having a fucking night, okay?
我不能再讓你… I can't have it with you foo--
快回家 Get on home,
否則我就像殺豬一樣讓你見血 else I'll bleed ya like a kochon, bruh.
我想拿劍抵著我弟弟嗎？ Did I want to pull a knife on my brother?
我不想 No.
但如我先前提到的 But as I alluded to before,
在自由街上你不能看起來軟弱無力 you couldn't look weak on Liberty.
你永遠不知道誰在虎視眈眈著 You never knew who was watching.
他拿劍抵著我，媽 He pulled his knife on me, Mamaw.
因為你在破壞母親的生意 You were disrupting mother's business interests.
你有聽到嗎，母親？ D'you hear that, Mother?
他把你變成老鴇了 He's made you a madam.
哦，保羅 Oh, Paul.
他在從被詛咒的靈魂中獲利 Profiting from the damnation of souls.
我們不要小題大作 Let's not fuss on the particulars.
那年與家人共進早餐有一個固定的模式 Mornings with my family followed a pattern that year.
我母親專心在準備我妹妹的婚事上 My mother consumed herself with preparations for my sister's wedding,
保羅則在餐桌上 while Paul confused the dining table
用無人認同的傳教內容攪和 with a pulpit none of us would recognize.
我們應該在這個家壓垮我們之前 We should tithe that o'er to St. Augustine's 'fore
向聖奧思定會繳教區稅 this house falls in on us.
這只是暫時的 This is just a temporary situation
路易會替我們找到一個更體面的事業 until Louis can find us a more respectable business.
如果爸還在，我們現在還會在制糖業 Daddy was here, we'd still be in sugar cane.
如果爸還在 Daddy was alive,
你現在還被關在積遜的那間醫院裏 you'd still be locked up in that hospital in Jackson.
路易，不要提那個 Louis, let's not have that talk.
一個月後是我的婚禮 A month from my wedding day,
我夢想什麼呢？ and what do I dream about?
夢想在我先生懷裏跳舞嗎？ Dancing in my husband's arms?
孩子在院子裏跑來跑去嗎？不是 Children running in the yard? No.
我在想一頓安靜的早餐是怎麼樣的 I dream of what a quiet breakfast might look like.
你男人李維是浸禮會的，這對聖母不敬 Your man Levi's a Baptist, no respect for the Holy Mother.
保囉！ Paul!
他會讓你女兒「跳掃帚」 He's gon' make your daughter jump a broom.
我就坐在這裏耶 I'm sitting right here.
下去一點的梅菲爾姐妹家中有很多掃帚 Plenty of brooms down the street at the Mayfair sisters' home.
他在說我是女巫，媽 He's calling me a witch, Mamaw.
保羅德普安特杜拉克，話收回去 Paul de Pointe du Lac, you walk that back.
你弟弟聽起來是個討厭鬼 Your brother sounds like a pain in the ass.
脆弱、固執、執著 Fragile, stubborn, indulged.
我在父親臨終前承諾會照顧他 I'd promised our father on his death bed to look after him.
當保羅心智正常時 But when Paul's mind was right,
就不是個負擔 he was no burden.
其實，我愛他勝過地球上其他人 Point of fact, I loved him more than anyone on earth.
我們每天漫步到聖奧思定會 And our daily stroll to St. Augustine
那是美好一天開啟的量尺 was the measure of a good day started.
早安，保羅 Good morning, Paul.
你的早上可能很安好吧 Good for you maybe.
早安，路易 Morning, Louis.
椅子很亮哦 Pew's got a good shine.
如果你不介意 我會把鞋子送到你這裏來 If it wasn't beneath you, I'd send shoes your way.
沒什麼好介意的，孩子 Nothing is beneath me, son.
我準備好了，神父 I'm ready, Father.
我想感謝你們家上週日的捐獻 I wanted to thank the family for last Sunday's donation.
那是保母費 Baby-sitting money.
教堂能讓他冷靜一點 Church calms him down some.
嗯，我們都會在這裏陪他 Well, we're always here for him.
那筆錢被好好地用在裝修上 And the money goes a good way towards the renovation.
我要馬蒂亞斯神父，謝謝 I want Father Matthias. Thank you.
你沒什麼要告解的 這是在浪費好人的時間 You ain't got nothing to confess to anyhow. Wasting a good man's time.
我馬上過去，保羅 Be right there, Paul.
我最近都沒看到你來告解，路易 I haven't seen you in confession of late, Louis.
如果你需要，隨時可以過來，孩子 You know, you can always come here if you're in need, son.
我的事業跟我被教導的信仰相互衝突 My business and my raised religion were at odds,
而我…我內在蠢蠢欲動 and the, uh... latencies within me,
我編了一個謊欺騙自己 借此對抗那股感覺 well, I beat those back with a lie I told myself about myself...
我跟自己說我是精力旺盛的南方之子 that I was a red-blooded son of the South,
在赦罪前尋求歡愉 seeking ass before absolution.
那你是靠什麼不讓這錯覺破滅的？ And you maintained this delusion how exactly?
靠一個替對手工作的女子 A particular woman who worked for the competition.
就好像我們搖搖欲墜的小屋能比擬 As if rickety shacks were a competition
湯安達臣的「公平競爭酒館」 for Tom Anderson's Fairplay Saloon.
哦，路易杜拉克 Ah, Louis du Lac.
夜晚開始了 The night begins.
卡路爾小姐，莉莉小姐今晚有上班嗎？ Miss Carroll, Miss Lily working tonight?
莉莉小姐在露台 Miss Lily's on the terrace.
那是一個富麗堂皇的宮殿 It was a palace of opulence and splendor.
杜拉克先生，來杯薩茲拉克酒嗎？ A Sazerac, Mr. du Lac?
好的，卡路爾小姐 That'll do fine, Miss Carroll.
幾乎只服務白人顧客 And catered to an almost exclusively Caucasian clientele,
有助於我區分本地人 which helped me separate the locals from those
跟那些來自南方其他州的人 visiting from other southern states.
我看今晚進賬不少哦 Shakin' the money tree tonight I see,
-安達臣先生 -多到我都看不到地上的塵土了 Mr. Anderson, sir. Can't see the dirt for the dollars fallin'.
如果你有空的話，週五有私人牌會 Private game on Friday if your datebook is free, Louis.
可以哦，安達臣先生，可以哦 Can do, Mr. Anderson. Can do.
我聽不太懂你說什麼 I don't know much what you're saying.
但真的很好聽 But it sure sounds nice.
「只有不可能之人能做不可能之事」 "Only the impossible can do the impossible."
莉莉小姐 Miss Lily.
晚安，先生 Bonsoir, monsieur.
你會說法文嗎？ Do you speak French?
我們紐奧良這裏會說各種各樣的話 We speak all sorts of tongues in New Orleans.
這裏一位難求，你是怎麼進來的？ It's a hard table to get. How'd you manage it?
你才是怎麼透過大門進來的？ How'd you manage to get yourself through the front door?
你說什麼？ Excuse me?
我這是讚美的意思 I mean that as a compliment,
你這種人種的人能在這裏享有特權 a man of your race to have privileges here.
路易在這條街上有自己的小帝國 Louis has a small empire of his own down the street.
因此讓他享有特權 It gives him privileges.
有什麼好笑的嗎？ Somethin' funny about that?
你叫路易 Your name is Louis.
當然了 Of course it's Louis.
我沒聽到你叫什麼，老兄 I didn't get your name, fella.
抱歉，我私下玩得太開心了 I'm sorry. I'm having too much fun in private.
我知道你是誰 I know who you are, sir.
你讓我在法屬區買下了一棟宅邸 You're the man who made me buy a townhouse in the quarter.
我欠你欠大了 I owe you everything.
請一起坐 Please, join us.
我知道有時候像我這種種族的人 I know sometimes men of my race,
在你們眼裏看起來都一樣 we all look alike to you people.
但我沒賣你房子 But I didn't sell you no townhouse.
路易，坐一下吧 Louis, have a seat.
讓我解釋一下 Let me explain.
我是…新… New to the... the New World,
新來的 I am.
這身打扮就說得通了 That explains the clothes.
我其實是一位19世紀的男子 A 19th-century man at heart,
對，搭船橫渡大西洋 yes, making his, uh, trans-Atlantic journey by ship,
小心翼翼地計劃安頓於上游處 planning very carefully on settling myself upriver.
您的薩茲拉克酒 The Sazerac, sir.
記在我賬上，謝謝 Put that on my account, thank you.
然後再多給我們兩杯 And two more for us.
也再給樂手一輪 And another round for the musicians,
看他們想喝什麼 whatever they want.
他們常常被忽略 They are always forgotten.
好的，先生 Yes, sir.
哦，我說到哪了？ Oh, where was I?
坐船 On a boat.
對，我在新月海岸上 So, I'm out on the Crescent coast,
漂過你們的村莊 floating past your village,
我聽到音樂演奏聲 when I hear music playing,
還有男男女女在岸邊跳舞的剪影 and the shadows of men and women dancing by the water's edge.
我上岸，朝著音樂走去 I disembarked for the music,
然後還有食物 but then there was the food.
你今年最喜歡的是什麼 What's been your favorite this year,
萊昂柯特先生？ Mr. Lioncourt?
最喜歡的？ A favorite?
-嗯 -嗯 -Mm. -Mm.
她在逼我做選擇 She puts a pistol to my head.
我難以置信 I couldn't believe it.
他直盯著我 Staring me down as his hands
手一邊游移在莉莉小姐的裙緣 went wandering the seams of Miss Lily's dress.
我想用我手杖的末端將他的喉嚨劃開 I wanted to take the end of my cane and slit his throat with it.
那你怎麼沒有？ Why didn't you?
我動不了 I couldn't move.
我的身體因軟弱動彈不得 My body was seized with weakness.
他的眼神將我的肺纏住 His gaze tied a string around my lungs,
我發現自己動彈不得 and I found myself immobilized.
這裏的女人，有各種膚色… And the women, all shades of skin...
白色、黑色 white, Black,
黃褐色 cinnamon.
我得說，我掏空了銀行保險庫到處體驗 I've emptied a bank vault sampling, I must say.
一直到幾晚之後… But it was not until a few nights later...
我看到一個男人 從他的手杖中拉出一把劍 When I watched a man pull a knife out of his walking stick...
並將刀鋒抵住他弟弟的胸骨 And pressed the blade to his brother's breast bone.
我這才告訴自己… ...that I said to myself...
「黎斯特，打開行李箱，你到家了」 "Lestat, unpack your trunks. You're home."
他剛剛說什麼？ What did he say just now?
說了比他該說的還多了點 A little more than he should of.
我本來打算在聖路易展開新生活 I had planned to make a new life for myself in St. Louis.
那本來是我的天命 That was to be my destiny.
現在我知道我是對的 And now I know I was right.
只是那個「聖」不是城市 Only it turns out the saint is not a city,
而是一位性格宜人的俊俏男子 but a handsome man with a most agreeable disposition.
你是他的天命耶，路易 You're his destiny, Louis.
命中注定要成為摯友 Destined to be very good friends.
東方房接下來幾個小時可以使用 The Orient room is available for the next few hours,
莉莉小姐 Miss Lily.
兩位紳士在交換辣香腸的食譜 The gentlemen are swappin' andouille sausage recipes,
卡路爾小姐 Miss Carroll.
嗯 Hmm.
東方房是你的了，先生 The Orient room is yours, monsieur.
請給我這位朋友任何他想要的東西 Please get my friend here anything he wants.
很高興認識你 Wonderful to meet you.
希望能再遇見你，路易 I do hope I run into you again, Louis.
氣勢全消和景仰的心情不相上下 Emasculation and admiration in equal measure.
我想殺了那個男人 I wanted to murder the man,
也想成為那個男人 and I wanted to be the man.
我是去那裏找莉莉的 I had come there for Lily.
但離開時想的都是他 But I left thinking of only him.
出來 Come now.
是哪個邪惡的… Who the devil...
我們警局裏的朋友跟我說 鎮上爆發一種熱病 Our friends in the police tell me there's an outbreak of fever in town.
大部分不幸染病的都住在碼頭附近 It's unfortunates living near the wharf, mostly.
如果你發現自己身在迪凱特河邊 If you find yourself riverside of Decatur,
那你只能怪自己了 you have only yourself to blame, I say.
同意 Agreed.
不過，他們說很詭異 Still, very peculiar, they say.
每個都一樣…身體上都有小傷口 Each one the same... small wounds to the body,
檢查之後，發現全無血液 and upon examination, entirely devoid of blood.
他們說有一種新老鼠游上岸 It is their theory some new kind of rat has come ashore.
有六隻腳 Of the six-foot variety.
我們法國都說那是官僚 We call those bureaucrats in France.
男士們，你們都認識路易杜拉克 Gentlemen, well, you all know Louis du Lac.
路易，我跟你介紹 這位是黎斯特德萊昂柯特先生 Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt.
我們見過了，安達臣先生 We met already, Mr. Anderson, sir.
在花店前，對不對？ In front of a florist, wasn't it?
我們都想買最後一束百合 We both wanted the last bouquet of lilies.
你不問奧爾德曼他的頭還好嗎，路易？ Aren't you gonna ask the alderman how his head is, Louis?
我為什麼要問，安達臣先生？ Now, why would I do that, Mr. Anderson, sir?
你看，芬威克先生，我就說吧 You see, Mr. Fenwick, just as I told you,
最謹慎的黑人 a most discreet Negro.
要是他的醫生也一樣就好了 Would that his doctor had the same standards.
男士們，開牌吧 Gentlemen, show your cards.
哦！ Hoo!
萊昂柯特先生 你的手真是讓人難以理解 Mr. Lioncourt, your hand is incomprehensible.
哦，對 Oh, yes.
我很不會玩牌 I'm terrible at cards.
我沒有說過嗎？ Did I not mention that to everyone?
可以再換一點籌碼給我嗎？ Would you mind, uh, getting me some more of these money chips?
路易，你知道這位奧爾德曼芬威克 Louis, did you know that Alderman Fenwick here
最近買下維利耶街上 recently purchased both the title
霍頓公寓的所有權跟房契嗎？ and deed to the Horton rooming house on Villere Street?
對，安達臣先生認為可以開不錯的妓院 Yeah, Mr. Anderson believes it could make a fine sportin' house.
我建議奧爾德曼在投錢之前 I recommended the alderman find a managing partner
先找一位經營夥伴 before he commits his money.
我想的人選就是你，路易 I recommended he think of you, Louis.
你人真好，安達臣先生 Very kind of you, Mr. Anderson, sir.
你覺得那個地點怎麼樣？ What do you think of the location?
比不上貝森街 It ain't Basin Street.
但在正面掛上幾顆愛迪生燈泡 But throw enough Edison bulbs on the facade,
酒水利潤賺好 get a good margin on the alcohol,
不囉嗦的老鴇來管女孩們 no-nonsense madam to keep the girls clean,
我想應該可以賺得不錯，芬威克先生 I reckon a man could make a decent sum. Yes, sir, Mr. Fenwick, sir.
我想抽一成你應該願意加入 I said you'd do it for 10 percent.
無意冒犯，安達臣先生 A-all respects, Mr. Anderson,
但你是說包辦一切抽一成嗎？ but you proposing 10 percent for all the work?
那抽一成五？ 15%?
現在有資方跟勞方了 Now, there's capital investment, and there's labor.
各有一席之位 Both has its seat at the table.
是吧，黎斯特先生？ Wouldn't you say, Mr. Lestat?
嗯，我只能就我的經驗分享 Well, I can only speak of my experience,
我確定這和我的國家作法不同 which is, I'm sure, different in my country.
舉例來說，各位男士 Par exemple, you fine gentlemen
都聽過樂蓬馬歇百貨公司成功的故事 have heard of the success story that is Le Bon Marche,
它提供的購物體驗無以倫比 shopping experience like no other.
阿里斯蒂德布西科投入了新的洞察力… Aristide Boucicaut invests in a new vision...
這些男人瞧不起你 These men look down on you.
我得說 I have to say,
看到像你這樣的男人在自己的國家 I find it appalling how men like yourself
被這樣對待很讓人震驚 are treated in this country of yours.
無可否認 It is undeniable.
我的財富累積得坦坦蕩蕩 而且背後犧牲極大 I came to my wealth honestly and at great sacrifice,
我得說 I might add.
不過，沒有犧牲到很多人 However, it was not the sacrifice of many.
我沒有合作夥伴… I had no partners in my various...
一成 10 percent.
-財務風險… -一成五 -The financial risks... -15 percent.
你不知道自己的價值嗎？ Do you not know your value?
你是為了更大的目的才蒙受羞辱嗎？ Do you suffer these indignities for some larger purpose?
還有，你覺得兩對會讓你贏嗎？ And do you think two pair will win the hour?
我相信這座城市有大好機會 I believe there is great opportunity in this city,
但要把握機會 but to seize it,
我需要狼群保護 I'll need protection from the wolves.
以上是我的淺見，請別見笑 And that's all to say, forgive me,
德普安特杜拉克先生，或許是我的偏見 Mr. de Pointe du Lac, for my bias,
但沒有資金，商機在哪裏？ but where is the business if there is no capital?
商機不存在 It does not exist.
對吧？ No?
好了，各位，開牌吧 Alright, boys. Show 'em.
哦，葫蘆 Ooh. Full boat,
杜拉克先生 Mr. du Lac.
你輸了，湯 Got you beat, Tom.
他不跟我說他怎麼做到的 He wouldn't tell me how he did it,
怎麼讓世界靜止的 his trick to make the world stop.
「我會說的，路易，有點耐心，路易 下禮拜再問我吧，路易」 "In time, Louis. Patience, Louis. Ask me next week, Louis."
你們開始一起出去？ You started hanging out?
他愛上我的城市 He was in love with my city
想極盡所能地瞭解一切 and wanted to know everything he could about it.
所以你就當一位吸血鬼紳士的嚮導嗎？ So you played docent to the gentleman vampire?
他當時還沒顯露出他的吸血鬼本性 He had not revealed his vampire nature yet.
我猜你們只在晚上見面 I'm assuming you only met at night.
那裏是紐奧良耶 It's New Orleans.
白天是用來把前一晚玩樂的傷害睡掉的 Days are for sleeping off the previous evening's damage.
很適合掩護吸血鬼身份 Perfect cover for a vampire.
你又跳太快了，莫洛伊先生 Racing ahead again, Mr. Molloy.
讓故事帶引你 Let the tale seduce you.
就像我被帶引一樣 Just as I was seduced.
金錢從法國電匯過來 Money would arrive, wired from France,
通常在日落時分關店的商家 and the shopkeepers, who would usually close at sunset,
都非常樂於服務他 were very happy to accommodate him.
他搜刮進口商行來替他的宅邸增添傢俱 He ransacked the import houses to furnish his town house,
為圖書室掃空書店最古老的書籍 ravaged the booksellers of their oldest volumes for a library,
並在鼓勵之下 and, with encouragement,
將穿著打扮更新為當季流行款式 updated his wardrobe to the fashion trends of the season.
那年是寒冬，而黎斯特是我的煤火 It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire.
我發現自己第一次 And I found myself for the very first time,
向保羅以外的人 to anyone other than Paul,
吐露自己內心的掙扎 confiding my struggles to another man.
我正在被獵殺 I was being hunted.
但我卻渾然不知 And I was completely unaware it was happening.
我要換房間 I'm switchin' rooms.
我不要聽到你跟你老公發出聲音 I don't need to hear you and your good man making noise.
那你也要在家才聽得到 You'd have to be home to hear that.
我晚上會回來 I come home nights.
是有些晚上 You come home some nights.
我聽說你跟某個白人在外尋歡作樂 Out cattin' with some white man, I hear.
他不是白人，是法國人 He ain't white, he French.
哦 Oh.
那是一種新白人嗎？法國白人？ That's a new kind of white, is it? French white?
他不一樣 He different.
請他過來吃晚餐 Invite him over for dinner.
母親喜歡歐洲人 Mother loves European.
我要跟李維說你在釣更大條的魚 I'm gon' tell Levi you fishin' for a richer man.
不，不要拒絕你妹妹 Don't. Don't deny your sister.
我想認識這位法國白人 I wanna meet this French white.
我只是想給你主的話 I'm just trying to give you the word of the Lord.
懂嗎…是的…不 Understa-- Yes. Yes. No.
那絕非我的… That is never my...
保羅昨晚爬上我的床 Paul crawled up on my bed last night.
哭了快一個小時 Wept for good near an hour.
他無法接受你要結婚了 He ain't takin' to you gettin' married.
李維跟我說格雷特納有個地方 Levi told me of a place over in Gretna,
收像保羅這樣的人 takes in men like Paul.
不是什麼瘋人院… It's not some crazy person's house like...
上次的結果如何？ How'd that work last time, huh?
他出來後狀況比之前更糟 He come out worse than before.
格雷特納，不可能 Gretna. It ain't happenin'.
祂為了你死於十字架上 He died on the cross for you.
-對，就是你 -我擔心 Yes...you. I worry.
我很擔心… I worry so much...
擔心你自己就好 Worry about your own life.
擔心怎麼當好新娘就好 Worry about being a bride.
擔心你要帶什麼衣服去倫敦 Worry about what you gon' wear in London,
巴黎、佛羅倫斯 in Paris, Florence.
你們從紐約出去的時候是坐下等艙 Now, y'all gon' be in steerage outta New York,
但等到了歐洲，就會是頭等艙了 but once you get to Europe, it's first class on boats,
-船、火車、酒店房間都是 -你都在弄這些哦？ -trains, and hotel rooms. -What did you go and do?
你可以在甲板享受音樂 在噴水池旁享受食物 You should put the band by the deck and the food by the fountain.
媽！ Mamaw!
我要環遊世界了！ I'm goin' 'round the world!
真是感激不盡，杜拉克媽媽 I can't thank you enough, Mama du Lac.
我沒去過阿拉巴馬州東部 現在居然要去看金字塔了 I never been east of Alabama, and now I'm going to see the pyramids.
哦，我認為每個年輕家庭 都值得來一點小冒險 Oh, I think every young family deserves a little adventure.
是吧，萊昂柯特先生？ Wouldn't you say, Monsieur Lioncourt?
是的，女士，我母親 Oui, Madame. My mother,
她讓我擁有年輕男子的所有優勢 she gave me every advantage in life as a young man.
我的第一頭英國獒犬 第一把燧發來福槍 My first Mastiff, first flintlock rifle,
以及讓我能去巴黎的方法 the means to make my way to Paris.
你的假期是路易買的，李維 It was Louis that purchased your holiday, Levi.
管錢的是路易 It's Louis who controls the money.
別在意，李維 Pay no mind, Levi.
而且是誰給你權利 And I don't know who gave you the right
把我們的媽媽叫成你媽的 to call our mother your mother.
她還不是你媽 也永遠不會跟你有血緣關係 She's not your mother yet and will never be your scientific mother.
保羅 Paul.
我喜歡這道馬賽魚湯 I do love this bouillabaisse.
什麼？ Wha?
我們這裏叫做秋葵濃湯 Down here, we call it gumbo.
我們前幾天晚上有吃秋葵濃湯 對不對，路易？ We had a gumbo the other night, didn't we, Louis?
看完歌劇之後 Uh, right after the opera.
哦，路易居然去看歌劇 Oh, we've got Louis to an opera.
《約蘭塔》 "Iolanta."
在講一個盲眼公主 'Bout some blind princess,
不知道自己是公主的故事 didn't know she was a princess.
肚子突然叫了起來，所以中途離席 Stomach got grumbling, left halfway through.
你跟我哥哥的關係到底是什麼 And what exactly is the nature of your relationship with my brother,
萊昂柯特先生？ Monsieur Lioncourt?
你哥哥跟我 Your brother and I
在討論一些投資機會 have been discussing a few investment opportunities.
是小鳥們叫我問你的 The birds asked me to ask you.
我不是有意無禮 I wasn't being rude.
弗內先生 Monsieur Freniere,
你可以告訴我你是怎麼 would you tell me how you came to propose
向這位可愛的年輕小姐求婚的嗎？ to this delightsome young woman?
哦，故事很好聽 Oh, that's a good yarn.
你與基督同在嗎，萊昂柯特先生？ Are you one with Christ, Mr. Lioncourt?
你要不要閉上你該死的嘴？ How 'bout you shut your damn mouth?
路易 Louis.
沒關係，路易、女士 That's alright, Louis, Madame,
是小鳥在說話 the birds speak for him.
我是在一座修道院認識基督的 I came to know Christ in a monastery.
我本來想當神父 I wanted to be a priest.
跟你一樣，保羅 Just like you, Paul.
在那裏的僧侶的指導和教導下 And under the guidance and discipline of the monks who lived there,
我開始記下新舊約 I came to memorize both the testaments,
亞西西的著作 the writings of Assisi,
阿奎那、伊拉斯謨 Aquinas, Erasmus,
所有聖人和學者的著作 all the saints and scholars.
我父親，一位粗鄙的男人 My father, a vulgar man,
不太喜歡這種教育 did not think much of this education,
於是他和我的兄弟密謀將我拉出來 and so he and my brothers conspired to pull me out,
他們把我關起來，在被毆打、挨餓 lock me away, where, between beatings, starvations,
以及基督未能介入這些毆打 and the failure of Christ to intercede the beatings
挨餓的過程中 and starvations,
我逐漸遺忘了新舊約的一切 I slowly forgot all about the testaments,
亞西西、阿奎那、伊拉斯謨，全都忘了 Assisi, Aquinas, Erasmus, all of it.
閉嘴 Stop.
我現在就回答你那無聊的問題 And so to answer your boring question,
基督和我之間隔著一片汪洋大海 there is an ocean between Christ and myself.
閉嘴！ Stop!
希望這回答能讓棲息於 你那心智牢籠裏的小鳥們滿意 I hope that satisfies the birds perching in your mind's cage!
不要在這裏搞那一套！ Don't do that shit here!
不要用在我家人上 Not with my family.
懂嗎？ You understand?
我有時候深受我父親脾氣的詛咒 I am cursed with my father's temper at times,
是我無禮 and the rudeness is all mine.
沒關係 That's alright.
是濕度的問題 It's the humidity.
有時候會這樣 It does that sometimes.
要不要喝點冰酒？ Why don't we have some ice wine?
李維可以跟我們說 他是怎麼贏得我小寶貝芳心的 And Levi here can tell us all again how he won my joychild's heart.
我擔心你家人可能之後都會對我有芥蒂 I fear your family has taken a permanent offense at me.
保羅沒有在吃飯的時候，就是在找架吵 When Paul ain't pickin' at his plate, he pickin' a fight.
如果我會你的伎倆，我也會做一樣的事 If I had your tricks, I'd have done the same.
你一定很羨慕他 You must envy him.
他以為上帝透過他腦中的小鳥跟他說話 The boy thinks God speaks to him through birds in his head.
這要羨慕什麼？ How you figure envy?
羨慕他思緒的自由 The liberty he has with his thoughts.
不管那思緒有多畸形 However misshapen they may be,
你弟弟並不羞於分享 your brother has no shame in sharing them.
你是說我羞於自己嗎？ You sayin' I got shame?
你說的提早離開歌劇院的謊言 The lie you told about leaving the opera house early.
謝幕的時候你都快哭了 You were near weeping when the curtain fell.
為什麼要對家人隱瞞？ Why hide that from your family?
不需要大家都知道我在做什麼 Don't everybody need to know what I do.
不誠實會生生不息 Dishonesty breeds dishonesty.
她們會妄加評斷 They sit in judgment.
只有保羅會當著我的面說出來 Paul is the only one to say it to my face,
但我知道我媽跟嘉麗絲其實也這樣想 but I know my ma and Grace think it, too.
我爸過世的時候讓我們家的制糖事業 My daddy ran our sugar business into a swamp.
付諸流水 When he passed,
四個月… we was four months...
如果我什麼都不做 再四個月我們就會破產 four months from going bankrupt if I didn't do something.
你不必為自己辯護，路易 You don't need to defend yourself to me, Louis.
我知道你經歷了什麼 I know what you go through
為了讓家人舒適得一無所知 to keep your family ignorant in their comfort.
我做的工作不容易 It ain't easy, the work I do.
我周圍都是破碎的靈魂 Nothing but broken souls around me,
只有貪婪完好無缺 and the ones that ain't broke are greedy.
我精疲力盡 Bone-tired.
喝吧，善良的人 Drink up, my good man.
地球是個野蠻花園 The Earth's a savage garden.
你下船是明智的決定 You did good gettin' off that boat when you did.
聖路易跟洗碗水一樣黯淡無光 St. Louis is dull as dishwater.
對，我在這裏蠻自在的 Yes, I feel quite at home here.
要不要喝杯夜酒？ Shall we have a nightcap?
嗯… Um...
我今晚這樣就夠了 Probably had enough for tonight.
我要回去一下自由街 Gotta make my rounds back on Liberty.
我堅持，路易 You must, Louis.
我買了一個禮物給你 I bought you a gift.
禮物？ A gift?
一朵花 A flower.
你那個音樂盒好美 That's a nice music box you got there.
那是我少數帶過來的東西之一 It's one of the few things I brought with me from the continent.
那首是什麼歌？ What's that lil' song playin'?
你喜歡嗎？ Do you like it?
是我替一位以前認識的 年輕小提琴家譜的 I composed it for a young violinist I once knew,
一位有無盡的美與多愁善感的男孩 a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity.
那個是要拿來擦在嘴巴上的 I believe that is for the lips,
-莉莉小姐 -我不喜歡我的，看起來很淡 Miss Lily. I don't like the way mine look plain.
而且杜拉克先生不介意 And Mr. du Lac don't mind when I do it.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
一對不適合的佳人 A pair of misfit beauties.
我瞭解你們為何跑向彼此 I can see why you both run to the other.
卡路爾小姐知道你在這裏嗎，莉莉？ Miss Carroll know you're here, Lily?
我向你保證 I can assure you,
今晚「公平競爭」有被好好地補償了 the Fairplay has been handsomely compensated for the evening.
他派兩駕馬車來接我 Sent a two-horse carriage to pick me up.
我覺得自己是法屬區的女王 Felt like the queen of the quarter.
我跟萊昂柯特先生說 I told Mr. Lioncourt,
你跟我通常只會聊天 you and me usually just talk.
為什麼呢，路易？ And why is that, Louis?
什麼男人會白白浪費這美腰？ What kind of a man wastes this waist with words?
俊美的男人 A beautiful man.
不需要緊張 There's nothing to be nervous about.
窗簾已經拉上，僕人都回家了 The curtains are closed, the servants sent home.
連星球跟繁星都被蒙眼了 Even the planets and stars are blindfolded.
所以你喜歡這種的？ That's your thing, then?
你喜歡看？ You like to watch?
我已經看了你一陣子了，路易 I've been watching you for some time now, Louis.
從河邊看到湖邊 From river to lake,
再從湖邊回到河邊 lake back to river,
尋找著我的同伴之心 looking for my companion heart.
你是怎麼做到的？ How you do that?
做什麼？ Do what?
像那樣進到我的腦袋裏 Get in my head like that.
真是個漂亮的腦袋 Such a pretty head.
沒關係，親愛的 That's fine, love.
好好睡，莉莉小姐 Sleep well, Miss Lily.
重點是 It bears repeating,
我當時不認為自己是同性戀者 I did not consider myself a homosexual man at the time.
我有過經驗，罪惡感、羞恥感 I mean, I had had experiences. Guilt, shame,
在伏特加海載浮載沉的那種經驗 floating-on-a-sea-of-vodka type encounters.
很明顯我擁抱了自己的性向 Obviously, I've come to embrace my sexuality.
你當然知道 Course, you know that.
我們是在同志酒吧認識的 對吧，丹尼爾？ We met at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel?
那裏是得分的好去處 我只是做我該做的而已 It was a good place to score. I did what I had to.
你結過婚嗎？ You've been married?
兩次 Twice.
我們不是來聊我的 But we're not here for me, are we?
你服用藥物的時候 When you were using drugs,
莫洛伊先生 Mr. Molloy,
你記得最好的一次嗎？ do you remember the best you ever had?
1978年，在柏克萊 Berkeley, 1978.
卡莉和佩德羅賣的墨西哥黑焦油海洛因 Some Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro were slinging.
所以，想像那再次在你的血液中流動 So imagine that flowing inside your veins again.
再大大加乘 Now multiply it by miles,
流到土星環再回來 to the rings of Saturn and back.
他做了他所謂的「小酌」 就是小喝一口 He had taken what he called "un petit coup"... the little drink.
不足以讓我喪命，但足以讓他保持健康 Not enough to kill me, but just enough to keep him fit.
我們需要極力克制才行，那個小酌 It takes an enormous amount of restraint for us, the little drink.
對一個人類來說 For a human,
第一次體驗很…讓人不安 experiencing it for the first time, it was... unsettling.
不是指身體上的影響 當然那影響很明顯 And not for the physical toll on my body, which was significant,
但我是指在我內心甦醒的親密感 but for the feelings of intimacy it awoke within me.
我從不讓自己覺得與某人感情緊密 I had never allowed myself to feel emotionally close to anyone,
更不用說是跟男人了 much less a man.
我人生裏沒有空間容納這種感覺 I had no room for feelings like these in my life.
在紐奧良你想當什麼就當什麼 You could be a lot of things in New Orleans,
但絕不能當一個公開出櫃的黑人男性 but an openly gay Negro man was not one of 'em.
我誓言絕不重回此地 I vowed never to return again.
我把那晚塵封起來 I shut that night out of my mind
並讓我的注意力回到以前的生活中 and turned my attentions back to life as it was before.
-一、二、三，跳！-二、三，跳！ -One, two, three, jump! -Two, three, jump!
不要動 Now, hold still now.
我們今天緬懷我父親 We are missing my father today.
他本來應該跟我一起跳開場舞 He's supposed to dance with me to start the night off.
我現在在忍住不哭 I'm trying not to cry now.
我認為榮耀爸爸最好的方式 And I thought the best way to honor Daddy
就是讓我的兄長們接手做這件事 would be to make my brothers do the work.
可能有一半的人不知道這件事 Half of y'all don't know this,
但這兩個壞男孩 以前會在禮拜天跳舞賺錢 but these no-good boys used to shuffle for pennies on Sunday.
他們說自己是「ABCDEFG隊」 Called themselves "The ABCDEFGs".
你記得嗎，馬蒂亞斯神父？ Remember that, Father Matthias?
當然… Oh, yes.
意思是… ABCDE...
「聖壇男孩每天來為神獻舞」 "Alter Boys Come Dancing Every day For God."
沒錯！ That's right!
我記得他們帽子裏收到的錢 I remember their collection hat
不一定每次都會放到奉獻盤裏 didn't always make it to the collection plate.
沒錯 That's right.
保羅、路易？ Paul, Louis?
來啦 Oh, come on, now.
拜託啦！ Please! Come on, please!
為了我，我的大喜之日 It's for me on my wedding day.
好耶！ Alright!
鞋子好緊 Shoes are tight.
鞋子沒問題 Oh, the shoes is fine.
是腳太胖了 It's the feet that's fat.
你們要什麼節奏，老闆？ Hey, what kinda rhythm you want, boss?
大聲到沒人聽得到舞步的聲音就好了 Just play it loud so they can't hear our feet.
好 Alright.
你記得什麼？ What you remember?
來啦 Hey, come on.
嘿！ Hey!
跳吧！ Go ahead now!
很會嘛！ You still got it!
好耶！ Alright!
好！ Okay!
他們還是很會！ They still got it!
好耶！ Yes!
好耶！ Okay!
耶，路易！ Yay, Louis!
我不記得了 I can't remember.
好 Okay.
不會吧 You ain't gon' do it.
你不會要跳吧 You ain't gon' do it.
這就對了！ That's right!
天啊 Good gracious.
我們會錯過的 We gonna miss it.
閉嘴，我要專注 Quit talkin'. I have to concentrate.
是那三塊格子蛋糕害你爬不快的 It's them three pieces of checkered cake holding you back.
是五塊格子蛋糕、鯧鲹魚排、三條血腸 Five pieces of checkered cake, the Pompano fillet, three boudins,
雞雜飯、牛肉、豆角跟五、六杯酒害的 dirty rice, beef, green beans, five, six wines.
再吃的話 Eat anything else,
你背心的扣子就會像大炮一樣爆開 the buttons on your vest gon' pop off like cannon balls,
摧毀整個社區 take down the neighborhood.
9517 9,517.
這是我們待在這個家的天數 That's how many days we've been in his house.
這是你自己算出來的嗎？ You do that math all by yourself?
你記得我長得比你高的那天嗎？ You remember the day I got taller than you?
你每次都要講這個 Always bringin' that up.
你跟娜塔櫟一樣閉嘴不語 Shot up like a Nuttall oak.
老爸說我以後看你會居高臨下 Daddy said I was gon' look down on you for the rest of days.
對啦… Yeah, yeah.
才半英吋而已 Half an inch.
那個月很棒 That was a good month, that month.
接下來應該要換你結婚 I think you should get married next.
是嗎？ Do you now?
而且你應該娶海澤爾 And you should marry Hazel.
海澤爾？ Hazel?
那是誰？ Who that?
跟你太親密跳舞的那個 The one you were dancing too close with.
跳得那麼靠近應該要結婚 You dance that close, you ought to be married.
我沒聽清楚她的名字 I didn't catch her name.
她叫海澤爾 Well, it's Hazel.
你還在跟那個黎斯特一起做生意嗎？ You still doing business with that man Lestat?
沒有，沒成功 Nah. Didn't work out.
這樣很好 That's good.
因為他是惡魔 'Cause he the Devil.
你覺得每個人都是惡魔 You think everyone's the Devil.
他是來拿取靈魂的 He's here to take souls.
他跟我說的 He told me so.
他嘴巴沒張開跟我說的 He spoke to me without moving his lips.
他就只是耍耍小伎倆而已 He got tricks is all.
彌天大罪必須告解，路易 Mortal sins must be confessed, Louis.
我不會再見他了，保羅 Ain't never gon' see him again, Paul.
你覺得李維夠愛她嗎？ You think Levi loves her enough?
嘉麗絲需要很多的愛 You know, Grace needs a lot of love.
夠 I do.
你覺得他有把內心的一切都交給她嗎？ Do you think he's givin' her everything he's got inside him?
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
母親替嘉麗絲辦了一場很好的派對 Mother made a good party for Grace.
嗯哼，對 Mm-hmm, yeah.
對，大家會講好幾年 Yeah, they gon' talk about this one for years.
對 Yeah.
我愛你，路易 I love you, Louis.
我也愛你，小弟 And I love you, too, baby brother.
我吃太多格子蛋糕了 I ate too much checkered cake.
保羅 Paul.
保囉！ Paul!
我的天啊！ Oh, my Lord!
保囉！ Paul!
那是我最後看到的日出 That was the last sunrise I ever saw.
可能是黑暗之禮給的最好的東西 Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me.
我不懷念陽光 I don't miss the sun,
伴隨著它的回憶 the reminders it carries.
我一而再、再而三地目睹死亡 I have seen death over and over and over and over again.
好無聊 It's boring.
這句是很棒的簡介 That'll make a great blurb.
醫生給你的診斷 The diagnosis you received,
轉動了你的鐘，丹尼爾 Daniel, it winds your clock.
這個病毒翻轉了世界 This virus has turned the world sideways.
我懂啦 I get it.
我會死 I'm gonna die.
他們會死 They're gonna die.
但吸血鬼不會 But not the vampire.
吸血鬼感到無趣 The vampire is bored.
人類被摧毀了 The human was destroyed.
被徹底摧毀了 Utterly destroyed.
我去了殯儀館 I was at the funeral home.
一切該怎樣就怎樣 Everything is going as it should.
那裏的人很好 Good men there.
他們答應我… Promised me that...
你一定跟他說了什麼，路易 You musta said something to him, Louis.
你一定跟他說了什麼 才讓他對自己做那種事 You musta said something to him to make him do that to himself.
保羅滑落屋頂，弗蘿倫斯 Paul slipped and fell, Florence.
我想你應該不想追究 I don't think this is something you want to pursue.
他是個脆弱的孩子 He was a fragile boy.
一直都是 He always was.
而你 And you,
你每次都要爭贏，對不對，路易？ you always had to have the last word, didn't you, Louis?
你每次都要挫他的銳氣 You always had to take him down a peg.
媽 Mamaw.
你對他說了什麼？ What did you say to him?
你們為什麼會在上面？ Why was you even up there?
去看日出，媽 Watchin' the sun come up, Mama.
自殺的人不能通過那個門 You don't get past the gates iffen you kill yourself.
你不知道嗎？ Don't you know that?
保羅下到了另外一邊 Paul gone down the other way.
因為你，保羅在地獄 Paul's in Hell because of you.
史多瑞維爾脫帽致哀 Storyville lowered their hats,
表示哀悼，因為這是當地習俗 gave their propers, because it was custom.
但從那些排在人行道上的人看過去 But if you look past those lined up on the sidewalk,
你會看到酒吧沒有停下來服務客人 you'd see the bars hadn't stopped serving,
娼妓沒有停止賣淫 the whores hadn't stopped whoring.
保羅的生命對他們來說值什麼？ What was Paul's life worth to them?
我的生命值什麼？ What was my life worth?
自由街上的大人物 The big man of Liberty Street,
跟在他綢緞內裏的失敗後面走 trailing the satin-lined evidence of his failure.
是目光銳利的獵食者好下手的獵物 Easy prey for the discerning predator.
請節哀 My condolences.
走開 Not here.
好優雅的棺木 An elegant coffin.
可以告訴我你在哪裏買的… Would you tell me where you purchased...
走開 Move on.
我每晚都在我的陽台上等 I wait on my balcony every night.
你在躲我 You've been avoiding me.
我很忙 I have been occupied.
莉莉小姐只是可憐的替代品 Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute.
我不喜歡被人躲著 And I don't take kindly to being avoided.
這是我弟弟的喪禮！ It's my brother's funeral!
相信我，我跟你說 Believe me when I tell you,
你弟弟渴望如此 your brother longed for that flagstone.
你說什麼？ What'd you say to me?!
我來處理，老闆 I got it, boss.
繼續走 Keep walking.
黎斯特的突擊讓我六神無主 Lestat's ambush had disoriented me.
就連布道內容 The sermon that was given,
我也聽不見 I could not hear.
當集會結束時 And when the gathering cut loose the body,
我無法加入前來參加喪禮的人 I could not join the transformation of those in attendance.
他不讓我 He would not let me.
來找我 Come to me.
不 No.
要陪你走回去嗎，媽？ Walk you home, Mama?
不用了，謝謝 No, thank you.
李維，可以麻煩你嗎？ Levi, do you mind?
當然，杜拉克媽媽 Of course, Mama Du Lac.
她沒什麼意思 She didn't mean nothin' by it.
-現在有了 -她只是需要發洩一下而已 -Oh, but she did now. -She just needs to put it somewhere.
別往心裏去 Don't let it inside.
等等守靈見？ See you back at the wake?
來找我 Come to me.
我沒有參加守靈 I did not go to the wake.
我不想面對我母親的責怪… I did not want to face my mother's blame...
我母親的憐憫… ..my sister's pity.
我想要獨自哀悼 I wanted to grieve alone.
但他不允許 But he would not allow it.
來找我，路易 Come to me, Louis.
來找我 Come to me.
嗨，帥哥 Hello, handsome.
一杯薩茲拉克酒 Sazerac.
聽到你弟弟過世，我心都碎了 My heart broke when I heard of your brother's passing.
莉莉小姐 Miss Lily.
天啊 Oh, my dear.
不管她忙著服務誰 I don't care if she busy with someone.
我都會付多一點 I'll pay more.
因為我喜歡莉莉小姐 'Cause I like Miss Lily,
我需要莉莉小姐 and I need Miss Lily.
莉莉小姐死了 Miss Lily died,
杜拉克先生 Mr. du Lac.
兩周前死了 Two weeks ago.
警察在船塢下找到她 Police found her under the docks.
說她受到最近盛行的熱病傳染 Said she contracted the fevers that's been going around.
她體內的血都干了 Blood went and dried up inside her.
來找我 Viens a moi.
神父！ Father!
馬蒂亞斯神父！ Father Matthias!
救我！ Help me!
拜託救救我 Help me, please.
他在我的腦袋裏，神父 He's in my head, Father.
惡魔就在紐奧良 The Devil is in New Orleans.
冷靜點，孩子 Calm down, son.
穩住你的呼吸 Catch your breath.
保佑我，神父 Bless me, Father,
我犯罪了 f-for I have sinned.
滔天大罪 Grievously sinned.
劃十字，孩子 Sign of the cross, son.
我是酒鬼，主 I'm a drunk, Lord.
我是騙子 I'm a liar.
我是竊賊，主 I am a thief, Lord.
我自他人的痛苦中獲利 I profit off the miseries of other men,
隨心所欲地 and I do it easy.
藥物、酒精、女人 Drugs, liquor, women.
我…我引誘她們進來 再一把擒住她們所擁有的，主 I-I-I-I lure them in and grab what they got, Lord.
我收留無家可歸的女孩 I take daughters with no homes
再讓她們上街 and I-I put 'em out on the street,
主啊，我欺騙自己 Lord, and I lie to myself,
告訴自己我供吃供住 還讓她們口袋有錢 saying I-I'm giving them a roof and food and dollar bills in they pocket,
但當我照著鏡子，我知道自己是誰… but I look in the mirror, I know what I am...
大人物住大房子 the big man in the big house,
往耳朵裏塞棉花 讓自己可以對她們的叫聲充耳不聞 stuffing cotton in my ears so I can't hear their cries.
主啊，我還將我家人攪和了進來 And Lord, I dragged my family into this mess with me.
我讓我父親蒙羞 I shame my father.
我…我讓我弟弟失望 I f-- I failed my brother.
不，孩子 No, son.
我失去了我母親和妹妹 I lost my mother and sister,
卻沒有像個男人一樣修補一切，主 and rather than fix it like a man should, Lord,
我像個懦夫一樣逃開了 I run like a coward.
我逃向酒瓶 I run to the bottle.
逃向不義之財 I run to the grift.
逃向邪惡之床 I run to bad beds.
我…我跟一個男人同床 I-I laid down with a man.
我跟惡魔同床 I laid down with the Devil.
他的根在我體內 And he has roots in me,
他所有細長的根都在我體內 all his spindly roots in me,
除了他的聲音和話語 我什麼都無法思考 and I can't think nothin' anymore but his voice and his words!
拜託，救救我！ Please, help me!
我軟弱無能！ I am weak!
我想死！ I wanna die!
哦！ Oh!
不！ No!
路易，你覺得你在那俗氣的箱子裏 透過這只蠢豬 Do you think God heard you, Louis, in that tawdry box,
這個…這個江湖術士 上帝會聽到你的告解嗎？ through this pig vessel, this... this charlatan?
你沒看到他有多不配嗎？ Do you not see how unworthy he is?
你怎麼可以這樣羞辱自己？ How can you humiliate yourself like this?!
你殺了莉莉 You killed Lily.
扼殺她過的那美好的生活嗎？ Cut short that magnificent life she was living.
還真是個悲劇 What a tragedy.
外面根本就沒有熱病 Ain't no fever out there.
是你 That's you.
你把死亡帶來小鎮 You bringin' the death to town.
我把死亡帶給該死的人 I give death to those deserving.
我不是惡魔 I'm not the Devil.
這點你錯了 You were wrong about that.
但我可以給你死亡 But I can give you death.
這個原始小鎮把你吃干抹淨 This primitive country has picked you clean.
永遠地束縛著你 It has shackled you in permanent exile.
你踏進的每間房 Every room you enter,
被迫扣上的每頂帽子…苛刻的房東 every hat you are forced to wear... the stern landlord,
畢恭畢敬的商人、忠心的兒子… the deferential businessman, the loyal son...
你扮演的這些角色 all these roles you conform to
沒有一個是你的真實本性 and none of them your true nature.
你因傷痛哽咽難言時 一定感到非常憤怒 What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow.
當我的目光第一次落在你身上時 The first time I laid eyes on you,
你那美麗的臉龐 your beautiful face,
我看見了那傷疼 I saw that sorrow.
我不知道為何那傷痛會形於色 不知道為何它如此龐大 I did not know how it got there or why it was so voluminous.
我可以帶走那傷疼，路易 I can take away that sorrow, Louis.
我可以給你你向你那軟弱 I can give you that death you begged your feeble,
視而不見、墮落 不存在的神所祈求的死亡 blind, degenerate, nonexistent god for.
我還可以… But I can do it...
愉悅地給你 joyfully.
我可以把這羞恥的生活換掉 I can swap this life of shame,
換成一份黑暗之禮 跟你想都不敢想的力量 swap it out for a dark gift and a power you can't begin to imagine.
只要你開口要求就可以了 You just have to ask me for it.
只要你點點你那美麗的頭… You just have to nod your beautiful head...
答應就可以了 and say yes.
我愛你，路易 I love you, Louis.
你被愛著 You are loved.
我把我的愛送給你 I send my love to you,
你也送回給我 and you send it back round to me.
這個循環 And this circle,
這個我們幾乎沒有看過的家… this home we barely had a glimpse of...
我知道你也跟我一樣深感驚嚇 know it frightens me as much as it does you.
很難解釋他的話語 是如何卸下了我的心防 It is difficult to explain how his words disarmed me,
他的論點是多麼地簡潔有力、無法反駁 how efficiently succinct and impenetrable his argument was.
我的所有想法 All my conceptions,
就連我的罪惡感和想死的渴望 都好像完全不重要 even my guilt and my wish to die seemed utterly unimportant,
我完全忘了自己 and I completely forgot myself
跟我四周野蠻的景象 and the barbaric scene that surrounded me.
我有生以來第一次被看見了 For the first time in my life, I was seen.
成為我的伴侶，路易 Be my companion, Louis.
成為所有你美好的樣貌 Be all the beautiful things you are,
而不需要感到抱歉 and be them without apology.
永世永生 For all eternity.
他將我吸乾 He drained me
到死亡的界線 to the very threshold of death.
那血液 The blood,
一開始像暗啞的吼叫 it came as a dull roar at first.
接著變重擊聲 And then a pounding,
敲鼓般的重擊聲 like the pounding of a drum,
越來越大聲 growing louder and louder,
彷彿有巨大生物穿過一個陰暗的 as if some enormous creature were coming through a dark
外星森林而來 and alien forest.
一個巨大的鼓聲 A huge drum.
接著出現另一個鼓聲 And then, there came a pounding of another drum,
彷彿有一個龐然大物緊跟在後 as if another giant were coming behind him,
各自擊鼓 each giant intent on his own drum,
無視彼此的節奏 giving no notice to the rhythm of the other.
在我的唇部、手指跟肉體內震動 Throbbing in my lips, fingers, and flesh of my temple.
最重要的是 Above all,
在我的血管裏震動 in my veins.
一陣鼓聲，接著再一陣鼓聲 Drum, and then the other drum.
我張開我的眼睛 I opened my eyes.
就在此時，我意識到 And it was then that I realized
那鼓聲是我的心跳 the drum was my heart,
另一個則是他的 and the other drum had been his.
我看著坐得離我不遠的他 I saw him sitting a length away from me.
容光煥發 Radiant.
我們坐了一陣子 And we sat there for some time.
感受漸增的驚奇 In throes of increasing wonder.
故事結束 The end.
故事開始 The beginning.