第二集，追尋前身的幻影
那是威尼斯人的作品 It's Venetian.
跟丁托列托同時代 A contemporary of Tintoretto's.
馬瑞斯德羅曼路斯 Marius de Romanus.
沒聽過 Never heard of him.
他很少作品留下來 Little of his work survives.
越稀有的德普安特杜拉克先生越愛 Mr. de Pointe du Lac covets the rare.
你有聽到嗎？ Do you hear that?
我一直聽到那個聲音 I keep hearing that sound.
這棟建築物有點搖晃 Well, the building sways a bit,
但那是因為它設計的關係 but that is according to its design,
因為它很高 given the height.
我們都說那是呻吟聲 We call it the groan.
那不會打擾你用餐，餐點準備好了 It won't disturb your meal, which is ready now.
-你一直替他做事嗎？-請坐 -Did you always work for him? -Please have a seat.
簽了保密協議？ Sign an NDA?
是單純工作，還是你跟他… I mean, is it only work or are you and he...?
我在服侍一位神祇 I serve a god.
那是我的榮幸 It is my honor to serve.
德普安特杜拉克先生 會在第七道菜的時候加入用餐 Mr. de Pointe du Lac will join you at course seven.
第七道？ Seven?
等一下，總共有幾道菜？ Wait, but how many courses are there?
是要為了必然的結局把我喂胖嗎？ Fattening me up for the inevitable end?
鵝肝醬 Duck foie gras terrine,
醃漬水果、烤蘋果糖 pickled fruit, roasted apple bonbon.
他來了 There he is.
你錯過了至少三、四個瀕危物種 You missed at least three or four endangered species.
我想為我稍早的情緒失控道歉 I want to apologize for my outburst earlier.
我向你保證絕不會再發生 I can assure you, it will not happen again.
回憶是頭怪獸 Memory is a monster.
我們會遺忘，但它不會 We forget, it doesn't.
現在是第二段，路易德普安特杜拉克 Uh, this is session two, Louis de Pointe du Lac.
可以把音樂聲調小嗎？ Eh, can we turn down the music?
杏仁冷湯、麵包 杏仁碎、大蒜、橄欖油跟鹽 Ajoblanco. Bread, crushed almonds, garlic, olive oil, and salt,
以綠葡萄點綴 a garnish of green grapes,
AB型Rh陰性，農場現采直送 and AB negative, fresh from the farm.
用餐愉快 Bon appetit.
我有點想問農場的事 Part of me wants to ask about the farm.
兩隻吸血鬼走進教堂 Two vampires walk into a church.
剛剛故事講到這裏 That's where we left off.
弒神父後的極樂 Blissing out post-priesticide.
極樂只是我變身的一個階段而已… The bliss was merely a stage in my transformation --
緊接而來的是痛苦 pain followed,
一個緊抓不已的痛苦 a seizing and unrelenting pain,
一個成為學徒前必須忍受的痛苦 through which I would pass before my apprenticeship began.
我是怎麼了？ What's happening?
你的身體感到困惑 Your body is confused.
你的肺如水、心如火 Your lungs feel like water, your heart, fire.
你覺得自己正在死亡 You feel as if you're dying,
因為正是如此 because you are.
接著，你還會乾嘔 And then, there's the retching.
我承認我偽善 I recognize the hypocrite I am,
縱情享受後依然愛好整潔 emphasizing cleanliness after I overindulged,
但妥善處理是正派吸血鬼的補贖 but a proper disposal is the penance of a sated vampire.
你附近 And you won't always
不會隨時有墓地，所以… have a conveniently located graveyard nearby, so...
我們依靠活人的血過活 We live off the blood of the living.
舔食逝者的血 Lap up the blood of the deceased
會將你跟你的受害者 and it'll suck you right down into death,
直接吸入死亡，懂嗎？ along with your victim. Hmm?
路易 Louis.
閃亮雙眸 There's the spark.
黎斯特的血液在我體內呵呵地笑著 Lestat's blood was giggling inside me,
嘲笑我的感官 teasing my senses,
用排山倒海的細節點亮一整區 illuminating the district with overwhelming detail,
彷彿我一輩子都以死人姿態遊走 as if I had walked my entire life as a dead man,
現在，死亡終於可以接受存在的秘密 and now, dead, could finally receive the secrets of existence.
你該死的蓄勢待發了 You were fucking loaded.
無可言喻 Beyond articulation.
你雙耳感受到的世界 像個令人惱怒的交響曲 Your ears will pick up the world like a maddening symphony.
聽著我的聲音，單獨曲調 Follow my voice, a single strain.
你的雙眼會游移 Your eyes will wander,
受你的渴望所牽引 led by your hunger.
你飢渴嗎，路易？ Are you hungry, Louis?
嗯哼 Uh-huh.
他們曾是你的兄弟姐妹 They were your brothers and sisters once,
但現在他們是可口的下等人 but now they're your savory inferiors.
那是一瓶年輕的丹魄紅酒 A young Tempranillo,
飽滿酸辣 fleshy and tart.
皮米迪沃酒，帶些微鐵味 除此之外味道簡樸 A Primitivo, hints of iron, rather plain otherwise.
兩瓶橡木桶熟成卡本內蘇維翁 皮厚而耐嚼 A pair of oak-aged cabernet, thick-skinned and chewy.
狩獵是一門藝術 Hunting is an art.
你擁有征服任何人的力量 You have the power to subdue anyone you want,
但有時候按捺是你最強而有力的武器 but sometimes restraint is your most powerful weapon.
他 Him.
直接往派對上最漂亮的女孩走去 Straight to the prettiest girl at the party.
我欣賞這美學 I admire the aesthetic,
但你整晚會忙著把他和他的船員分開 but you'll spend most of your evening trying to separate him from his crew.
這是在和太陽競賽 You'll race the sun to the kill,
而當他早上不見人影時 and when he turns up missing in the morning,
半艘逡巡護衛艦的人都會來找他 you'll have half the frigate on the prowl, looking for him.
一開始 In the beginning,
最好讓食物自己來找你 it's best to let the food come to you.
給你 Here you go.
我是黎斯特巢裏的幼鳥… I was a baby bird in Lestat's nest --
還沒準備好去獵食 not yet ready to hunt,
但急著想大快朵頤 but desperate to feed.
我帶我女兒去看馬，巴洛米諾馬 So, I'm taking my daughter to look at horses, uh, Palominos.
就是在西部自由奔馳的印地安品種馬 You know, those Indian types that they run free out West,
然後，不得不說 and, uh, I gotta tell you,
我做得還滿不錯的 I'm, uh, I'm doing pretty good for myself, you know?
現在是新世紀，新工作 It's a new century, new job,
所以我在考慮 so I'm actually entertaining
買一隻給她 the thought of getting her one of these,
買一隻特別的馬 you know, a special horse.
我們走下去遊樂場 We go down to the fairground.
她說爸爸，為什麼那隻馬 走路那麼奇怪？ She says, Daddy, why is that horse walking so funny?
為什麼它的背會那樣皺起來？ Why is his -- his back all crumpled up like that?
我告訴她，我說 Well, I tell her, I say,
親愛的，等一隻馬的工作全部做完 Honey, once the work has gotten used all up out of a horse...
就會變這樣… this is what happens...
他們這個年紀問不完的問題好有趣 Amusing, their relentless questions at that age.
對，我跟她說事情的本質就是這樣 That's right. I tell her, This is the nature of things.
有人要砍燕麥 Someone has to hew the oats,
有人則要收穫玉米 要耙松土，要耕種 someone has to harvest the corn, the harrow, the tiller.
你們兩位怎麼會在這裏？ Why are you gentlemen down here?
你們是種什麼的？ Uh, now, what do you grow?
種棉花嗎？ You grow cotton?
蔗糖 Sugar.
蔗糖…蔗糖 Sugar...Sugar.
小心一點，親愛的 Careful, mon cher,
你開始嚇到他了 you're beginning to frighten the man.
嗯… Um...
我看著我女兒哭花的臉，我跟她說 So, I look at my daughter's tear-stained face and I say to her,
美琪，這就是爸爸賣拖拉機的原因 Maggie, that's why your daddy sells tractors.
萬國法爾毛收割機 International Harvester Farmall.
拿去吧 Go ahead and take that.
可能派得上用場 Might come in handy.
我說的是燃氣驅動 So I am talking about gas-powered,
開式齒輪的馱獸 open-geared beast of burden.
嗚拉拉 Ooh-la-la.
這裏好奢華 This is fancy, right here.
先說清楚，兩位 Uh, just to be clear here, gents,
我們…我們是來討論農作設備的 we -- we are here to talk about farm equipment.
對嗎？ Am I right?
還有流線拖拉機 Mm. And a streamline tractor, you know,
不只能增加你們的產量 not only gonna increase your harvest,
還能讓你們的孩子不會以淚洗面 but it's gonna keep your child from tears.
哦，謝謝 Oh, thank y-you.
你，呃… You, uh,
你的袖子上… on your sleeve...
等你準備好，路易 Whenever you're ready, Louis.
我就知道，我就知道你們… I knew it. I knew you...
搞什麼？ What the fuck?
脖子，咬脖子，路易 The neck. Bite the neck, Louis.
不對… No...
不是，血不是用咬的 No, you don't bite the blood.
用吸的 You suck it.
對…好多了 Yes, yes, that's better.
很好 Good.
下一張地毯我想買波斯地毯 For our next carpet, I'm thinking Persian.
阿拉伯式圖案的 Arabesque maybe.
我們需要更有效率的方法處理垃圾 Certainly need a more efficient way of ridding the waste.
第一次是最笨手笨腳的 The first time is the most unwieldy.
很快你就會上手了 Soon you'll be a natural.
你會開始樂在其中 享受當中的變化、小驚喜 You'll come to enjoy it, its variations, little surprises.
我…我要回家 I-I gotta go home.
現在這裏就是你家，路易 This is your home now, Louis.
深呼吸 Breathe.
我…我要回家拿錢 I -- I gotta collect money from the cribs.
我這裏有我們需要的錢，深呼吸 I have all the money we need. Breathe.
我得回去看嘉麗絲跟保羅 I have to go see Grace and Paul.
哦，親愛的 Oh, dear.
你該死的沒在聽我說話！ You ain't fuckin' hearin' me!
我…我必須回家 I -- I need to go home.
你會發現很難回到家 You're going to find that very difficult.
嘿！ Hey!
搞什麼？ What the hell?
嘿 Hey, now.
你拿了我就得付錢 That's coming out of my pay.
我的天啊！ Lord Jesus!
讓我進去！ Lemme in!
讓我進去，該死！ Let me in, God damn it!
快把該死的門打開！ Open the fucking door!
太陽賜予萬物生命，除了我們以外 The sun gives life to everything but us.
我應該跟你說的 I should have taught you that.
吸血鬼的生活有其挑戰 The life of a vampire has its challenges
及報酬… and its rewards...
但我想紐奧良 ...but I think New Orleans,
它的音樂、文化 美食、船塢、遠離家鄉 with its music, culture, cuisine, shipping yards, conventioneers,
前來參加會議的人、尋求刺激的旅客 thrill-seeking tourists far-flung from their homes,
當地警察自由放任的態度 the laissez-faire attitude of the local police force
是的… oh, yes...
完美環境，適合吸血鬼居住… the perfect setting for a vampire home...
適合吸血鬼談情說愛 a vampire romance.
我才不會睡在那裏面 I ain't sleepin' in there.
我們很快就會弄一張你的床 We'll get you your own soon enough.
你來日方長，路易 You've had a long life, Louis,
而且前途似錦 and such an extraordinary one ahead.
休息一下吧 Have a rest.
沒關係 It's okay.
你可以睡上面 You can be on top.
狂歡作樂啊 Helluva bender.
他透過相遇拉著我一頭往前 He rushed me headlong through the encounter
彷彿一切可以拋諸腦後 as if it were something to put behind us.
死亡、重生、出櫃、殺人 Death, rebirth, coming out, homicide,
一個晚上太多的第一次了 too many firsts for one night.
出櫃？ Coming out?
你搶走了一個女兒的父親 可能還搶走了寵物馬 You robbed a daughter of her father, maybe a pet pony.
這跟性向有什麼關係？ How's sexuality play in that?
這個問題很複雜，丹尼爾 It's a complicated question, Daniel,
不應該跟銷售員的死混為一談 and we shouldn't conflate it with the salesman's death.
-說一下讓我笑笑 -為了讓你不再好奇 Humor me. To satisfy your fixation,
被黎斯特變身 being transformed by Lestat,
被他激起慾望 being desired by him,
跟他同床共枕 都是揭開我那方面本性的序曲 bedding down with him was an overture of sorts to that side of my nature.
各地的酷兒理論家都羞慚了 To the shame of queer theorists everywhere.
我是自願進到那口棺材裏的 I got in that coffin on my own free will.
在無聲的黑暗裏 In the quiet dark,
我們是平等的 we were equals.
白人導師，黑人學生 White master, Black student,
但在無聲黑暗中彼此平等 but equal in the quiet dark.
興風作浪 Provocation.
上了你的線上課程後 Is this the primary tool
就會獲得這個基本工具嗎？ one walks away with after downloading your Internet class?
兔肉三吃，還有呂佩爾狐 或叫大耳沙狐 Rabbit, three ways, and Vulpes rueppellii, or Ruppell's sand fox.
先回到銷售員那裏一下 Back to the salesman for a sec.
顯然，你被它困擾著 Clearly, you were haunted by it,
他的血的味道在你喉頭裏 the taste of his blood in the back of your throat,
牙齦裏… up in your gums.
我問你，丹尼爾 Let me ask you, Daniel,
你切下那塊兔肉前 會思索兔子的一生嗎？ do you contemplate the life of the rabbit before you cut it?
還是就直接切下去？ Or do you simply cut?
吸血鬼是殺手 Vampires are killers,
是頂尖獵食者，他們的全視之眼 就是要讓他們有所抽離 apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment,
讓他們能夠完整地觀看一個人的生命 the ability to see a human life in its entirety,
不是無病呻吟的傷痛 not with any mawkish sorrow,
而是帶著成為該生命盡頭的 but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end
嗜血快感 of that life
並介入了神聖計劃 and having a hand in the divine plan.
不要期待所有讀者都會買單 Don't expect every reader to swallow that one.
這就是目的所在 That's the purpose.
我們的書必須極具警告性 Our book must be a warning as much as anything.
問題的方向對了 It was the right line of questioning.
那個銷售員困擾著我 I was haunted by the salesman,
身為一位初出茅廬的吸血鬼 and as a fledgling vampire,
我還沒準備好開始獵殺 I did not readily take to killing.
我剛開始學英語的時候，我恨死了 When I first started learning English, I abhorred it.
每個字都像門把從我的嘴裏掉出來 Every word felt like a doorknob falling out of my mouth.
帽子這樣念、星星這樣念 Chapeau is a hat, etoile was a star...
殺人不是學第二語言 Killin' folks ain't a second language.
但等我開始用英語作夢 But when I started dreaming in English,
就是我擁抱它的時候 that's when I embraced it.
現在呢 And now,
我要感謝英語子音 造就了這優秀的下巴線條 I have English consonants to thank for this astonishing jawline.
我現在做的是惡夢，黎斯特，不是美夢 These are nightmares I'm having, Lestat, not dreams.
芬恩，你的手還好嗎？ Finn, how's your arm?
有好好復原嗎？ Is it healing properly?
你可能需要一個好醫生，朋友 You might need a proper doctor, my friend.
我的手沒事 Me arm's fine.
如果需要醫生，跟我說 You let me know if you need a doc.
我有一件事，杜拉克先生 There is something, Mr. du Lac.
你在幫奧爾德曼整修的那間新賭場 The new gaming house you're fixing up for the alderman,
我想管理它 I want to manage it.
我很會跟人交際 I'm good with people,
也很有數字概念 and I'm good with numbers.
嗯… Hmm...
我會去跟芬威克說 I'll take it up with Fenwick.
非常感謝 Much obliged.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
你知道他在說謊 He's lying, you know.
他會知道我很會算錢 He'll figure I'm a bean counter.
不是，他想做那個工作 這樣他就可以從你那裏偷錢 No, he wants the job so he can steal from you.
超收酒水跟女人的錢… 不會多到被你發現 Overcharge for drinks and women... not enough for you to notice,
但足以讓他好好地賺 but enough to make him good extra,
他是這樣說的 he calls it.
你之所以知道 是因為你剛剛進到他腦袋裏？ And you know that 'cause you got in his head just now?
吸血鬼會讀心術，親愛的 Vampires can read minds, mon cher.
對 Right.
你要獨享那個能力多久？ And you gon' sit on that skill for how long?
嗯 Hmm.
要我跪下來求你嗎？ You gon' make me beg?
可能有人覺得讀心術 是一個很實用的禮物 One might think the ability to read a mind a most useful gift,
但其實蠻乏味的 but, in reality, it's quite mundane.
我大部分都忘記我會 I forget I can do it most days.
是嗎？ Is that right?
每個人類念頭可以歸結為三件事… Every human thought boils down to three things...
我想要食物 I want food,
我想要性愛 I want sex,
我想回家 I want to go home.
你有看到那邊那個人嗎？ You see that man right there?
我要你剝開所有聲音 直到你找到他的心跳聲 I want you to peel away every sound until you find his heartbeat.
抓住那個心跳聲 Now hold the heartbeat.
你有聽到他的肺流洩、噴出氣體嗎？ You hear his lungs leaking and flooding air?
他的心只是另一種肉體之聲而已 His mind is just another bodily sound.
距離上一餐過了一天半 Day and a half since my last meal.
教堂說祈禱吧 Church says, Pray about it.
主不能讓我沒有食物 The Lord can't make me no food.
我想要食物，走吧 I want food. Shall we?
跟女人就不算不忠，因為我不會懷孕 It's not cheating with a woman because I can't get pregnant.
我想要性愛 I want sex.
我要丟下這個小鎮去當大人物 I'm gonna ditch this town and be somebody.
那不是… That's not...
等一下 Give it a moment.
或是回家好了 Or I'll just go home.
看吧 Voila.
等一下，我剛剛閃過他家的樣子 Wait. I saw a little flash just now of his house.
對 Yes.
以後你就知道了，隨著你的力量增長 你會可以看見他們的思緒 You'll see, as your powers grow, you can see their thoughts,
幾乎像看單盤視頻一樣 like a one-reeler almost.
暗淡單調的電影 Dull, monotonous picture shows.
這是一個非常礙事的禮物 盤中肉微不足道的思索 It's a very distracting gift, the petty musings of meat.
換你來剝開我 Peel back on me then.
我現在在想什麼？ What am I thinkin' right now?
你得自己告訴我才行 You'll have to tell me yourself.
分享黑暗之禮時會有所犧牲 A sacrifice is made when the Dark Gift is shared.
你現在讀不了我的心了？ You can't read my mind anymore?
做出我們這個作品的建築師 旨在使我們謙卑 The architects of our creation mean to humble us.
我們任由其他人所主宰 We're at the mercy of the other's discretion.
就跟待宰的肉一樣 Just like the meat.
嗯 Hmm.
你已經跟他們不同了，雛鳥 You're not one of them anymore, fledgling.
你所追的是你前身的幻影 You chase after phantoms of your former self.
我會幫你瓦解 I'll break you of it.
我對於與人性分離的不情願 My unwillingness to separate from humanity
是我吸血鬼生活中持續不斷的掙扎 was a constant struggle in my vampiric existence.
我感覺有必要有所連結 I felt it was essential to maintain ties.
但是越來越困難 But it was getting more difficult.
8點開始演出 The curtain goes up at eight.
我們只會在這裏待一小時而已 We'll only be here an hour.
他們會讓我們坐到很晚 They'll seat us late,
我們會錯過諾拉跟聖誕樹的開場 and we'll miss Nora's entrance with the Christmas tree.
你什麼都不會錯過 You ain't gon' miss anything.
看這吹得是什麼風啊 Look what the wind blew in.
媽 Mama.
你記得這位黎斯特 You remember Lestat.
德普安特杜拉克女士，感謝你的邀請 Madame de Pointe du Lac, all the kindness for the invitation.
我不記得有邀請他 I don't remember inviting him,
不過還是請過於盛裝打扮地玩得開心 but please, take your overdressed self and have a fine time.
我看到你前院有班卓琴樂團 I see you have a banjo band in your front yard.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
女士 Madame.
路易 Louis.
有需要那樣嗎？ Was that necessary?
你搬到半英里遠 Move half a mile away,
半季沒回來看家人 don't come see your family for half a season.
不要一回來就那麼脆弱，兒子 Don't come back fragile, son.
沒人來敲門找我啊 Haven't heard a knock on my door.
兩邊都是半英里遠啊，媽 It's a half-mile both ways, Mama.
嗯 Hm.
看看他的指甲 Look at his nails.
他去做了指甲 He's getting his fingernails done.
還戴墨鏡 And the glasses?
某些像他這樣的男人會有的打扮 Some fashion certain men like him do.
天啊 Lord.
眼科醫生說我現在開始要戴墨鏡 Eye doc says I gotta wear them from now forward.
眼睛很敏感 Sensitive eyes.
你有看到嘉麗絲嗎？ You seen Grace about?
你有看到我的鱷魚嗎，女士？ You seen my alligator, ma'am?
我好像在酒杯旁弄丟了 Seems I lost it by the punchbowl.
哦，我們太久沒見了 Oh, been too long.
我知道… I know, I know.
等一下 Wait.
我的天啊 Oh, my.
你要讓我當舅舅了嗎？ You makin' me an uncle right here?
誰告訴你的？ Who told you?
沒人告訴我 No one told me.
一定是李維 It was Levi.
我看你的表情就知道了 I could tell by the look on your face.
還不夠久 I ain't far enough along.
-他不應該跟別人說的 -而且… -He shouldn't be telling anyone. -And...
-而且… -而且什麼？ -And... -And what?
是雙胞胎 Gon' be twins.
你現在是蒙古大夫啦？ You a fool doctor now?
哦，我好想你，路易 Oh, I miss you, Louis.
是啊 Yeah.
你有聽到我說的嗎？ You hearin' me?
看著我，路易 Look at me, Louis.
把眼鏡拿掉，看著你妹妹 Take them glasses off and look at your baby sister.
不要，還給我 Don't. Gimme those back.
你的眼睛… Your eyes...
好像教堂窗戶 like a church window.
一樣的眼睛，一樣的我 Same eyes, same me.
不一樣了 Different you.
是更好的你 Better you, I'd say.
你再躲我躲那麼久 You hide from me this long again,
我會找到你，然後扇你巴掌 I'll hunt you down and slap you sideways.
我有東西要給你 I got you something.
不要，路易，這是什麼？ Oh, no, Louis. What is this?
我不需要你的錢 I don't need your money.
不是給你的，是給寶寶們的 It ain't for you, it's for the babies.
不要再說寶寶們了 Stop it with the babies.
一個就夠多了 One's gon' be plenty.
有兩個 There's two of 'em.
嗯 Well.
那這就用得到了 This'll come in handy, then.
李維不是你這種商人 Levi ain't the businessman you are.
你在那裏過得怎樣？ So, how's it in the district?
如果還有這些閒錢，一定過得不錯 Must be good if this here's extra.
哦 Oh.
我知道現在很難看得出來 Now, I-I know it's hard to see it now,
但芬威克先生的妓院在貝森街的這一邊 but Mr. Fenwick gon' have himself the most profitable
會更有利可圖 sportin' house this side of Basin Street.
奧爾德曼肯定是這樣想的 The alderman certainly thinks so,
但這樣你得問問自己 為什麼他會請我來 but then you have to ask yourself why he sent me.
因為新事業，新合作夥伴 New business, new partner.
不對，卡羅先生 No, sir, Mr. Carlo,
是我的話也會如法炮製 I-I'd do the same thing myself.
你有自己的私人律師，對吧，孩子？ You got your own personal attorney, do you, boy?
沒有 No, sir.
但我不是奧爾德曼，對吧？ But then, I'm not an alderman, am I?
對，你是他的合作夥伴 No, you're his partner.
嗯 Hm.
這些陽台只能是裝飾性質的 These balconies, they have to be decorative only.
建築規章只允許用於住所，而非商業上 Building codes allow those for residents, not for business.
前提是它們是陽台的話 Well, that's only if you call it a balcony.
不然是什麼？ What are you callin' it?
逃生口 Fire escape.
很聰明嘛，孩子 That's clever, my boy.
非常聰明 That's very clever.
對 Right.
幾十間房 Dozen rooms,
好音響給樂手們使用 proper acoustics for the musicians.
很適合讓人在此等待 You know, good for those waitin'.
最好要蓋過牆後進行的事 Best to drown out the business behind the walls.
對 Yes.
你腦中真的有自己的想法，是吧？ Oh, you really do have a mind inside out head of yours, don't you?
我知道有些塗漆看起來要價不菲 I-I know some of the finishes seem penny heavy,
但我們掛的是奧爾德曼的名字 but it's the alderman's name goin' out there,
每個細節都必須獨一無二 so every detail has to shout exclusivity.
你很聰明又有生意頭腦嘛 You're bright and industrious, huh?
我相信你也會每個過程都好好監工吧？ I trust you're overseeing all stages of construction as well?
是的，先生 Yes, sir.
逃生口 Fire escape.
我得說，我本來還有所懷疑 Now, I must say, I had my doubts,
但你那一成五抽得合情合理 but you really have earned your 15%.
你真的是一個優秀的黑鬼 You truly are an exceptional Negro.
謝謝，先生 Thank you, sir.
啊，逃生口 Ah, fire escape.
優秀黑鬼 Exceptional Negro.
是啊 Ah, yes.
謝謝，先生 Thank you, sir.
我一輩子的應對進退都是如此 It was the call and response of my entire life.
我讓他們這樣對我說話太久了 I had let them talk to me like that so long,
久到我都聽不到了 I stopped hearing it.
是的，先生 Yes, sir.
當然，先生 Of course, sir.
主詞、動詞、一致性，先生 Subject, verb, agreement, sir.
微笑、點頭 Smile, nod,
是的，先生 yes, sir.
它們都來自我體內同樣的器官… They all came from the same organ inside me...
一個當時科學還未知的器官 an organ unknown to science at the time.
因為哪個科學家會去研究 Because what scientist would look for an organ
一個只會使用自己的軟弱 爬上去的黑人器官？ found only in Black men who use their weakness to rise?
但我已經不是人了 But I wasn't a man anymore.
我是別的東西 I was something else.
我現在有了力量 還有好幾十年的憤怒要處理 I had powers now and decades of rage to process,
那晚在妓院被挑中啄食的男人 and it was both random and unfortunate,
只是隨機又不幸的結果 the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery.
就算不是他，也會是下一個人 If not him, would have been the next man.
路易，孩子… Louis, my boy, j...
這位是你老闆的代理人 This was your man's esquire, sent in his stead!
我當時很飢渴 I was hungry.
石頭是從你做生意的地方砸出來的 Stone's throw from your place of business.
你在想什麼？ What were you thinking?
他不尊重我 He disrespected me.
怎樣不尊重？ How did he do that?
他說我做得好 He told me I did a good job.
你真是充滿困惑 You are a library of confusion.
有些事… There's some things...
你不懂美國，黎斯特 you don't get about America, Lestat.
好啊，又要講這個 Yes, let's have this conversation again.
有色人種、白人、克裏奧爾人、法國人 Colored, white. Creole, French.
酷兒，半酷兒 大部分是酷兒，這是怎樣？ Queer, half-queer, mostly queer, what is it?
沒有一個有歧視性 Non-discriminating.
我的意思是我們這裏的情況很複雜 Complicated situation we got here's what I'm saying.
幾位教區神父失蹤 A couple of parish priests go missing,
大家會說好吧，很有可能是戀童癖 people say, Fine. Most likely kid-fiddlers.
但他 But this,
他是鎮上的重要人物 this was an important man in town.
警察會找他，雛鳥 The police will be looking for this man, fledgling.
所以才會養出這頭怪獸，不是嗎？ That's why we got this beast, yeah?
你得好好控制自己，雛鳥！ No, you need to show restraint, fledgling!
你最好不要再用那個字了 Oh, you need to stop using that word right now,
因為聽起來有點像奴隸 'cause it's soundin' a little like slave.
不要說 Don't say it.
聽起來就像這樣啊 Well, that's what it fuckin' sound like.
有時候感覺就是這樣 It's what it feel like sometimes.
又要無病呻吟了 And the carousel comes around again.
去你的 Fuck you.
法文 Speaking French
我不喜歡餓肚子睡覺 I don't like sleeping angry.
鄭重聲明 For the record,
如果你受到任何不敬 我一定親手殺了他 if disrespect was done to you, I would have killed him myself.
嗯，我要怎麼補償你？ Well, what can I do to make it up to you?
我想買下公平競爭酒館 I wanna buy the Fair Play Saloon.
這野心很大 That's ambitious.
如果你不想幫忙，我就自己來 If you don't wanna help, I'll do it myself.
把人類跟吸血鬼事業 攪和在一起很不明智 Ridiculous of you to mix human and vampire business.
結局都會很慘 It always ends poorly.
但我怎麼會阻止你呢？ But how can I stop you?
我怎麼能拒絕你呢？ How can I say no to you?
在這裏、這裏跟這裏簽名 Sign here and here and here.
我沒在文件裏看到條款 Well, I do not see the clause in this paperwork
寫明我可以繼續在這裏吃吃喝喝跟亂搞 wherein I continue to eat, drink, and fornicate on the house.
路易？ Louis?
你有我的話做擔保 You have my word,
我的話比文件有力… and my word is thicker than paper...
-嗯 -湯 -Mm. -Tom.
黎斯特表現大方及充滿愛意 It was a grand and loving gesture on Lestat's part.
你爬的可是一把高大的梯子啊 杜拉克先生 That's a mighty tall ladder you're climbin', Mr. du Lac.
我成了那一區 最光彩奪目的俱樂部的老闆 And I was now the owner of the brightest club in the district.
我的俱樂部，我的規矩 My club, my rules.
我對那些想燒錢的人敞開大門 I opened the doors to anyone with money to burn.
我支付員工更好的薪水 I paid the staff better,
支付樂團更好的薪水 paid the band better,
同時幫助那些在下面就跟著我的人 all the while helping those who had been with me
讓他們能過得更好 down the block to better themselves.
威廉絲小姐 Miss Williams.
杜拉克先生 Mr. Du Lac.
出於無意義的自尊心 And it was a pointless point of pride
我將向黎斯特借的一分一毫都還清了 that I paid back every cent I borrowed from Lestat.
那是我夢寐以求的東西 It was everything I had ever wanted or wished for.
但加倍成了一個生生不息的獵物之門 And it doubled nicely as a revolving door of prey.
兩位知道公平競爭酒館在哪裏嗎？ You fellas know where I can find the Fair Play Saloon?
你晚來五年了 You about five years late.
你要在鎮上待多久？ So how long are you in town for?
對，我只是… Uh, yeah, I'm just --
從1912到1917年 From 1912 to 1917,
我賺了大把銀山 I made a mountain of money,
足以引退，並像法老般地被安葬 enough to retire and be buried like a pharaoh.
但在遺囑執行人的基本職責上 But in the essential duties of the executor in charge,
我卻怠忽職守 I had been most delinquent.
我們把他取名為班哲文 We named him Benjamin.
小班 Benny.
你見過雙胞胎了嗎？ Did you even meet the twins?
沒有，女士 No, ma'am.
女士？ Ma'am?
我看起來那麼老嗎？ I look that old to you?
不是，我的意思是 No, I mean,
我還沒能有幸見到更多的家人 I haven't had the pleasure of meetin' more of the family.
我工作忙得不可開交… I've been so busy with work, and, you know...
忙著他嗎？ Him?
你瞭解我的情況 You know my situation.
你們的狀況怎麼樣，你跟… How are things with you and...
還是黎斯特，對吧？ It's Lestat still, right?
-對，還是黎斯特 -噓！ -Yes, it's Lestat. -Shh!
我爐子上還有一些秋葵濃湯 Got some gumbo on the stove still.
晚餐吃還滿好吃的 Tasted great this evening.
我弄一點給你吃 Let me fix you something.
我不用 I'm good.
抱一下你侄子 Hold your nephew.
他是最安靜的 He's the quiet one, this one.
另外兩個…雙胞胎 The other two...the twins?
我的天啊，幫個忙吧 Lord, help us.
好了，湯來了 All right. Here it is.
還是溫的 Still warm.
怎麼樣？ Well?
抱過去吧 No, please.
看起來不錯啊 You look good.
你今晚應該留下來 You should stay the night.
媽一定很想見你 I'm sure Mama would love to see you.
噓… Shh, shh.
看看他會不會睡回去 Let's see if he goes back down, let's see.
親愛的，雙胞胎又來了！ Honey, the twins again!
嘉麗絲！ Grace!
好吧 Okay.
我…我去看一下到底怎麼了 Let -- Let me just see what the hell is goin' on.
-不，我… -噓 -Oh, no, I... -Shh.
我不再殺戮了 I no longer kill.
我最後一個受害者是在2000年 My last victim was in the year 2000.
是什麼Y2K情仇嗎？ Some Y2K disagreement?
我希望我們的讀者瞭解這點 I want our readers to understand that.
好 Okay.
那你有吃那個嬰兒嗎？ Did you eat the baby?
我坐在這裏，是我本能的主宰者 I sit here a master of my instincts.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
那外面那些呢？ And what about the others out there?
他們有主宰自己的本能嗎？ Have they mastered theirs?
正好相反 Just the opposite.
他們大部分是血液的奴隸 Most of them are slaves to the blood,
數十年、數世紀的躲藏 exhausted from decades,
讓他們精疲力竭 centuries of hiding,
迫不及待地想增加數量 giddy to increase their numbers.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
兩個問題… Two questions...
你有吃那個嬰兒嗎？ did you eat the baby?
還有，疫情是他們期待已久的序幕嗎？ And is the pandemic the opening they've been waiting for?
疫情，地緣政治基礎的瓦解 Pandemic, the unraveling of geopolitical foundations.
你怎麼知道？ And you know this how?
你們在討論版上有討論串嗎？ You guys have a thread on 8chan?
我聽到的 I hear them.
我們的思緒 可以移動數千英里遠傳給彼此 Our thoughts can travel thousands of miles to one another.
我可以站在我的陽台上 I can stand out on my balcony,
閉上雙眼，他們會傳送給我 close my eyes, and they're plotting speeds to me.
其中一個 One of them,
一個在馬達加斯加的野獸 將疫情稱作巨大轉換 a brute in Madagascar, called it the great conversion.
巨大轉換？ The great conversion?
那祝你們好運了 Well, good luck with that,
因為大部分我認識的人 都喜歡下午踢點小球 because most people I know like to play little ball in the afternoon,
或是去海邊曬點太陽 or maybe going down to the beach, catching a few rays.
是啊 Yes.
西維吉尼亞州 一位安非他命成癮的礦工兒子 What on earth would a meth-addicted son of a coal miner
怎麼可能會想要永生呢？ in West Virginia want with eternal life?
你有吃那個嬰兒嗎？ Did you eat the baby?
或是阿拉伯年輕人怎麼會被 一位西部來的游手好閒者 Or the Arab youth whose family were wiped from existence...
-滅門呢？-你有吃那個嬰兒嗎？ -by a Western drone? -Did you eat the baby?
不會，所以你一定是對的 No, I'm sure you're right.
嗨，達米克 Hello, Damek.
嘿 Hey.
俄文 Speaking Russian
他是美國人，達米克 He's American, Damek.
你喜歡迪拜嗎？ You like Dubai?
我還沒有時間去觀光 I haven't had the time to sight-see.
去風箏海灘 Go to Kite Beach.
那裏很棒，有風箏 It's good. Kites.
謝謝你，達米克 Thank you, Damek.
很快再見 See you soon.
如我所說的，我不再殺戮了 As I was saying, I no longer kill.
你可能有酗血問題 You might have a drinking problem.
拉希德！ Rashid!
那個嬰兒 The baby.
小班？小班！ Benny? Benny!
我把他抱在我懷裏… I had him in my arms...
準備大快朵頤 and I was ready to tear into him.
那永遠無法操之在我 I'm never gon' get control over it.
你最近都沒吃飯 You've been skipping meals lately.
-不要以為我沒注意到 -那是我外甥 -Don't think I haven't noticed. -It was my nephew.
你不能再去見他們了，路易 You have to stop seeing them, Louis.
他們遲早會開始害怕你的 They'll grow fearful of you if they haven't already.
我做不到 I can't do it.
這是我們都必經的通過儀禮 It's a rite of passage for all of us.
如果你愛你的家人 而我也知道你愛著他們 If you love your family, as I know you do,
就讓他們免受這些你帶來的所有苦痛 spare them all the pain that you are causing them.
我永遠不會有自己的家庭，對吧？ I ain't never gon' have a family of my own, am I?
沒有兒子，沒有女兒 No sons, no daughters.
我就是你的家，路易 I'm your family, Louis.
你應該直接把我丟進焚化爐再重做一個 You should just throw me in the incinerator and make another one.
嗯 Hmm.
那是暴殄天物 And what a waste that would be.
我走過這個世界兩世紀，我可以說 I have two centuries walked this Earth and can report,
你獨一無二，沒人跟你一樣憤怒 you have no twin. No one as angry,
固執、不肯通融 as stubborn, as unaccommodating,
-讓人惱怒… -聽起來像個垃圾 -as maddening... -Sound like trash to me.
一樣充滿著愛、盡心盡力、一樣體貼 As loving, as dedicated, as thoughtful,
一樣如此不完美地完美 as imperfectly perfect as you've become.
每個日落你都是個挑戰，聖路易 You're a challenge every sunset, Saint Louis,
而我就喜歡這樣 and I'd have it no other way.
我有個主意… Here's an idea...
我們放假一下 let's take a holiday.
羅馬怎麼樣？ What about Rome?
羅馬？ Rome?
意大利的羅馬？ R-Rome, Italy?
還是你比較想去威斯康辛州的羅馬？ Would you prefer Rome, Wisconsin?
我不能說走就走，我有工作要做 I can't just pick up and go to Rome. I got a business to run.
把杜鵑花交給會做事的布麗塔小姐 Leave the Azalea to the capable hands of Miss Bricktop
條條大路通羅馬 and follow the Appian Way.
你要怎麼讓棺材橫越大西洋？ How you gon' get coffins across the Atlantic?
可能不容易，但當然不是不可能 It can be an inconvenience, but not impossible, obviously.
你要怎麼把它們從船上 移到火車上、馬車上？ Well, how do you get them from ship to train to cab?
這部分我得承認是蠻麻煩的 Ah, the changeovers can be jarring, I'll give you that.
也許我們可以僱用 Well, maybe there's a deaf,
一個又瞎又聾的行李員 等到了酒店就把他殺了 blind porter we can hire and kill when we get to the hotel.
我有想過去英格蘭 Well, I had been thinking the Inghilterra.
但想像一下，在古希臘咖啡館 Imagine hunting between the Caffe Greco
和西班牙廣場之間狩獵 and the Spanish Steps.
不過你說的有理 But you've made your point.
可惜 Pity.
我們只能坐等羅馬來找我們了 We'll just have to settle for Rome coming to us.
哦，又是歌劇 Oh, another opera.
不是隨便的歌劇，是董尼采第的 喜劇傑作《唐帕斯誇萊》 Not another opera. Donizetti's comic masterpiece, Don Pasquale.
我與他相識 I was an acquaintance of his,
73年前在巴黎的意大利劇院看過首演 and I saw the premiere at the Salle Ventadour 73 years ago,
彷彿昨天，歷歷在目 and I remember it like it was yesterday.
我差點吃了我侄子，黎斯特 I almost ate my nephew, Lestat.
這是女高音蘇菲亞康索利的美國首演 It's the soprano Sofia Consoli's American debut,
22座城市巡演的第五站 her fifth stop in a 22-city tour,
管絃樂隊應該要很棒 so the orchestra should be in excellent form.
我有私人包廂，還請人做了燕尾服 I have a private box, and I had tuxedos made.
我一直沒有好好經營我們的關係 I've been neglectful of our romance.
而且，一個堅定不移的學生 值得天賜嘉獎 And a steadfast pupil deserves a divine reward.
黎斯特頭幾年自有一套 He had a way about him, those first years, Lestat.
異於常人地有魅力 Preternaturally charming,
有時候很體貼 occasionally thoughtful.
他是殺了我的人、我的導師、我的愛人 He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover,
我的造物者… and my maker...
同時集這些於一身 all of those things at once.
他不是選我來當他的踏腳墊的 He didn't choose me to be his doormat.
我知道他很享受我的反擊 I knew he enjoyed it when I fought back,
但那裏面有一種崇拜 but there was present a kind of worship on my part.
我腳底下的土地總是像液體般 The earth beneath me always felt liquid.
我在史多瑞維爾享受的身份地位 The status I enjoyed in Storyville
並未延續到在波旁和圖盧茲 did not extend itself to the operators
法國歌劇院的經營者和贊助人上 and patrons of the French Opera House on Bourbon and Toulouse.
為避免衝突，我們在那裏 用我們一貫的方式互動 We did what we always did to avoid conflicts there.
我表現得像是他的貼身侍從 I performed as his valet,
在他背後，距他一步之遠 walked a pace behind him,
找到位置後，替他脫下大衣 took his overcoat once we found our seats,
直到燈光變暗前都站在包廂後方 remained standing in the back of the box until the lights went down,
直到序曲響起才在他身旁坐下 and only joined next to him once the overture had begun.
他又一次地… And again...
自有一套 ...he had a way about him,
我坐下來，試著練習自我克制 so that as I sat there trying to practice restraint,
醞釀我的憤怒… simmering in my indignation...
黎斯特趁機卸下我的心防 Lestat seized it as opportunity to disarm me.
當吸血鬼有一件事 There is one thing about being a vampire
最讓我害怕… that I most fear above all else...
就是孤單 and that is loneliness.
你無法想像那個空虛感… You can't imagine the emptiness...
數十年、每次綿延而出的那個空洞 a void stretching out for decades at a time.
你將那個感覺帶離了我，路易 You take this feeling away from me, Louis.
我們一定要在一起、未雨綢繆 We must stay together and take precaution
永不分離 and never part.
有多少個我們在外面？ How many of us are out there?
不可能只有我們兩個 We can't be the only ones.
多少個吸血鬼嗎？ How many vampires?
恐怕不多 Not many, I'm afraid.
可能100、101個 Maybe 100, 101.
《唐帕斯誇萊》的巡迴演出廉價粗俗 The touring production of Don Pasquale was a cheap affair,
但黎斯特對女高音讚不絕口 but the soprano was everything Lestat said she would be.
而音樂 And music,
黎斯特將之用以區別人與食物 that was where Lestat separated man from food.
音樂穿透他受詛咒的靈魂 Music pierced his damned soul.
任何與之相關的人類 And any humans who were involved with the creation
在他眼裏都被提升到另一種境界 of it existed on an elevated plane in his eyes.
看到他也擁有人性依戀讓我深受感動 I was moved to see he too had his human attachments.
這位女子似乎在為我們歌唱 And this woman sang for us, it seemed,
將我們無法好好表達的困難愛意 articulating the difficult love
句句清晰地表達了出來 we often had trouble expressing ourselves.
不過，有個問題 There was one issue, however,
幾乎要戳破了 我們意大利假期的粉紅泡泡 that threatened to pop the bubble of our Italian holiday,
那就是飾演俄內斯托的男高音 and that was the tenor playing Ernesto.
委婉地說 To be kind,
他跟女高音在不同的聲音水平上… he did not live in the soprano's vocal stratosphere...
啊 Ah.
黎斯特為此很不悅 ...and Lestat was unamused.
我不懂這樣的人怎麼可以登台演出 I don't understand how someone like that can make it onto a stage.
我知道他們是間流氓公司 I understand they're a rogue company,
但難道他們 是隨便從路邊抓個人來演嗎？ but are they pulling talent from roadside gas stations?
即使大部分的觀眾都未察覺 It didn't help matters that the majority
也無濟於事 of the audience didn't seem to notice.
黎斯特的鄙視 And so Lestat oscillated his disdain
因此游移在男高音 和下方座席中的愚昧群眾中 between the tenor and the witless swamp-dwellers in the seats below.
布幕像斷頭台一樣落下 The curtain fell like a guillotine,
黎斯特隨即站起嘲笑地欣賞著 and Lestat leapt to his feet in mock appreciation,
這只代表著一件事… which could mean only one thing...
狩獵開始了 the hunt was on.
我站在大廳酒吧裏 I stood in the lobby bar,
看著一輪又一輪的買酒 nursing my complicity,
聽著虛偽的稱讚隨話語起落 同時扮演著我的共謀角色 as rounds were bought and fake praise was lavished upon the mark.
我對一股朝我襲來的作嘔感感到意外 And I was surprised by a wave of nausea coming over me.
當了他的學生六年 Here I was, six years his pupil,
現在跟拖拉機銷售員當時無異 and it was no different than the tractor salesman.
這個可憐的靈魂是某個人的兒子 This poor soul was someone's son,
某個人的兄弟 someone's brother,
而他即將被宰殺 and he was to be butchered.
為了什麼？ For what?
一個讓人不悅的聲調？ An offending note?
錯了 Wrong.
他讓男高音坐下 He sat the tenor down,
在他面前打開樂譜，並照著樂譜歌唱 opened up the score in front of him and sang as it was written.
你看得出那名年輕男子對自己所學 And you could see all the doubts the young man had about his art,
和對自己的所有懷疑 about himself,
在他頻頻點頭的臉上一覽無遺 exposed on his nodding, agreeable face.
黎斯特在不到半小時內 就將他一生的自信 Lestat removed a lifetime of confidence,
與喜悅一掃而空 of joy, in less than half an hour.
這裏，跟這裏 Here and here.
你就是在這裏走音的 And this is where your voice went.
你讓多米尼科葛塔諾瑪利亞 提早進墳墓了… Sending Domenico Gaetano Maria into an early grave...
我是怎麼知道的呢？ And how do I know this?
因為他寫的時候我就在他的客廳！ Because I was in his Parlor when he wrote it!
你的聲音再也無法污染這個世界了 So no more of your sound can pollute this world.
你為什麼要這樣，黎斯特？ Why do you do this, Lestat?
因為我喜歡 Well, I like to do it.
-我樂在其中 -但我沒有 -I enjoy it. -Well, I don't.
你根本不需要羞辱他 You don't have to humiliate him.
我沒說你也要樂在其中！ Well, I don't say that you have to enjoy it!
如果需要的話就殺快一點 Kill them swiftly if you have to,
反正殺就對了！ but do it!
擁抱你自己吧！ Embrace what you are!
你是個殺手，路易！ You are a killer, Louis!
來吧，親愛的 Come now, love,
我們帶你去沙發上死 let's get you to the couch to die.
我不認同 I was in denial.
在帶來死亡這方面 For in bringing death,
黎斯特是藝術家 Lestat was an artist.
他溫柔地劃開那名男子 所以他無法求救 He had cut the man tenderly so that he could not call for help,
他的死亡也因此很緩慢 but also so that his death was slow,
有時間深思 meditative.
我很想親眼見證 And I felt a charge witnessing it.
黎斯特飲用的時候，我聽著他的思緒 I listened to his thoughts as Lestat drank,
這一次帶著圖像 and this time, they came with vision.
他在回想時我可以看到他的人生 I could see his life as he remembered it.
一幕一幕，他的意大利童年… Scenes from an Italian childhood...
山上村莊的復活節慶典 the Easter pageant in a mountain village,
與他父親一起在海上的下午 an afternoon with his father on the sea,
看著漁船緩緩包圍一群金槍魚 watching the fishing boats slowly encircle a school of tuna.
還有一片他口袋裏的濕麵包 Something about a wet piece of bread in his pocket.
如果你聽我的 If you'd listen to me,
如果你最終順從你的本性 if you finally submit to your nature,
你將被滿足，路易 you will be filled, Louis,
同時握有你所想的人生 with all the life you can hold.
你將看見死亡的所有美麗之處 You will see death in all its beauty,
在死亡之際，生命才有所知 life as it is only known at the very point of the death.
在所有生物之中 只有你能看見無罪的死亡 You alone, of all creatures, can see death with that impunity.
只有你 You alone,
在升起的明月下… under the rising moon...
能像上帝之手般地張牙舞爪 can strike like the hand of God.
我再說第三次，此後不再多說… And I'll say it for a third time and no more...
他自有一套 he had a way about him.
而我依然深深臣服於他的力量 And I was still very much under his power.
我們那晚共飲男高音好幾個小時 We would drain the tenor for hours that night.
黎斯特深深著迷於其中 Lestat completely enthralled.
我則假裝沉醉 Myself, pretending to be.
深怕讓他失望 Afraid to disappoint.
黎斯特錯了 Lestat was wrong.
我永遠不會上手 I was never going to be a natural.
我永遠不會品嚐那餘味 I was never going to savor the aftertaste.
我是深感愧疚的二等貨 I was a shame-ridden second,
一個笨拙沮喪的殺手 一個一團糟的吸血鬼 a fumbling, despondent killer, a botched vampire.
我盡量一個禮拜吃一道人類食物 來維持住那條線 I try to have a human dish once a week to maintain the thread.
你的回憶錄裏 有一段關於這道甜點的即席評論 There was an offhanded remark in your memoir about this dessert.
希望你別介意 I hope you don't mind.
你吃起來像什麼？ What does this taste like to you?
跟幾乎所有的人類食物一樣… Like almost all human food...
像漿糊、粉筆，像肥皂 like paste, chalk, like soap.
這個甜點是我向第一任妻子 求婚後吃的甜點 This is the dessert I had after I proposed to my first wife,
在我冷靜下來之後 after I got my shit together.
我們當時在巴黎 We were in Paris.
盧森堡街上的一家小咖啡館 Little cafe on the Rue Servandoni,
在聖敘爾皮斯教堂上面一點 up the way from Saint-Sulpice.
我知道，那條街很漂亮 I know it. It's a beautiful street.
愛麗絲… Alice...
她眉毛一半是金色的 half of her eyebrow was blond,
像混種狗 like a mutt.
她都會把它染回咖啡色 She always dyed it back to brown.
我喜歡她放著不染 I liked it when she left it alone.