第二集，追寻前身的幻影
那是威尼斯人的作品 It's Venetian.
跟丁托列托同时代 A contemporary of Tintoretto's.
马瑞斯德罗曼路斯 Marius de Romanus.
没听过 Never heard of him.
他很少作品留下来 Little of his work survives.
越稀有的德普安特杜拉克先生越爱 Mr. de Pointe du Lac covets the rare.
你有听到吗？ Do you hear that?
我一直听到那个声音 I keep hearing that sound.
这栋建筑物有点摇晃 Well, the building sways a bit,
但那是因为它设计的关系 but that is according to its design,
因为它很高 given the height.
我们都说那是呻吟声 We call it the groan.
那不会打扰你用餐，餐点准备好了 It won't disturb your meal, which is ready now.
-你一直替他做事吗？-请坐 -Did you always work for him? -Please have a seat.
签了保密协议？ Sign an NDA?
是单纯工作，还是你跟他… I mean, is it only work or are you and he...?
我在服侍一位神祇 I serve a god.
那是我的荣幸 It is my honor to serve.
德普安特杜拉克先生 会在第七道菜的时候加入用餐 Mr. de Pointe du Lac will join you at course seven.
第七道？ Seven?
等一下，总共有几道菜？ Wait, but how many courses are there?
是要为了必然的结局把我喂胖吗？ Fattening me up for the inevitable end?
鹅肝酱 Duck foie gras terrine,
腌渍水果、烤苹果糖 pickled fruit, roasted apple bonbon.
他来了 There he is.
你错过了至少三、四个濒危物种 You missed at least three or four endangered species.
我想为我稍早的情绪失控道歉 I want to apologize for my outburst earlier.
我向你保证绝不会再发生 I can assure you, it will not happen again.
回忆是头怪兽 Memory is a monster.
我们会遗忘，但它不会 We forget, it doesn't.
现在是第二段，路易德普安特杜拉克 Uh, this is session two, Louis de Pointe du Lac.
可以把音乐声调小吗？ Eh, can we turn down the music?
杏仁冷汤、面包 杏仁碎、大蒜、橄榄油跟盐 Ajoblanco. Bread, crushed almonds, garlic, olive oil, and salt,
以绿葡萄点缀 a garnish of green grapes,
AB型Rh阴性，农场现采直送 and AB negative, fresh from the farm.
用餐愉快 Bon appetit.
我有点想问农场的事 Part of me wants to ask about the farm.
两只吸血鬼走进教堂 Two vampires walk into a church.
刚刚故事讲到这里 That's where we left off.
弑神父后的极乐 Blissing out post-priesticide.
极乐只是我变身的一个阶段而已… The bliss was merely a stage in my transformation --
紧接而来的是痛苦 pain followed,
一个紧抓不已的痛苦 a seizing and unrelenting pain,
一个成为学徒前必须忍受的痛苦 through which I would pass before my apprenticeship began.
我是怎么了？ What's happening?
你的身体感到困惑 Your body is confused.
你的肺如水、心如火 Your lungs feel like water, your heart, fire.
你觉得自己正在死亡 You feel as if you're dying,
因为正是如此 because you are.
接着，你还会干呕 And then, there's the retching.
我承认我伪善 I recognize the hypocrite I am,
纵情享受后依然爱好整洁 emphasizing cleanliness after I overindulged,
但妥善处理是正派吸血鬼的补赎 but a proper disposal is the penance of a sated vampire.
你附近 And you won't always
不会随时有墓地，所以… have a conveniently located graveyard nearby, so...
我们依靠活人的血过活 We live off the blood of the living.
舔食逝者的血 Lap up the blood of the deceased
会将你跟你的受害者 and it'll suck you right down into death,
直接吸入死亡，懂吗？ along with your victim. Hmm?
路易 Louis.
闪亮双眸 There's the spark.
黎斯特的血液在我体内呵呵地笑着 Lestat's blood was giggling inside me,
嘲笑我的感官 teasing my senses,
用排山倒海的细节点亮一整区 illuminating the district with overwhelming detail,
仿佛我一辈子都以死人姿态游走 as if I had walked my entire life as a dead man,
现在，死亡终于可以接受存在的秘密 and now, dead, could finally receive the secrets of existence.
你该死的蓄势待发了 You were fucking loaded.
无可言喻 Beyond articulation.
你双耳感受到的世界 像个令人恼怒的交响曲 Your ears will pick up the world like a maddening symphony.
听着我的声音，单独曲调 Follow my voice, a single strain.
你的双眼会游移 Your eyes will wander,
受你的渴望所牵引 led by your hunger.
你饥渴吗，路易？ Are you hungry, Louis?
嗯哼 Uh-huh.
他们曾是你的兄弟姐妹 They were your brothers and sisters once,
但现在他们是可口的下等人 but now they're your savory inferiors.
那是一瓶年轻的丹魄红酒 A young Tempranillo,
饱满酸辣 fleshy and tart.
皮米迪沃酒，带些微铁味 除此之外味道简朴 A Primitivo, hints of iron, rather plain otherwise.
两瓶橡木桶熟成卡本内苏维翁 皮厚而耐嚼 A pair of oak-aged cabernet, thick-skinned and chewy.
狩猎是一门艺术 Hunting is an art.
你拥有征服任何人的力量 You have the power to subdue anyone you want,
但有时候按捺是你最强而有力的武器 but sometimes restraint is your most powerful weapon.
他 Him.
直接往派对上最漂亮的女孩走去 Straight to the prettiest girl at the party.
我欣赏这美学 I admire the aesthetic,
但你整晚会忙着把他和他的船员分开 but you'll spend most of your evening trying to separate him from his crew.
这是在和太阳竞赛 You'll race the sun to the kill,
而当他早上不见人影时 and when he turns up missing in the morning,
半艘逡巡护卫舰的人都会来找他 you'll have half the frigate on the prowl, looking for him.
一开始 In the beginning,
最好让食物自己来找你 it's best to let the food come to you.
给你 Here you go.
我是黎斯特巢里的幼鸟… I was a baby bird in Lestat's nest --
还没准备好去猎食 not yet ready to hunt,
但急着想大快朵颐 but desperate to feed.
我带我女儿去看马，巴洛米诺马 So, I'm taking my daughter to look at horses, uh, Palominos.
就是在西部自由奔驰的印地安品种马 You know, those Indian types that they run free out West,
然后，不得不说 and, uh, I gotta tell you,
我做得还满不错的 I'm, uh, I'm doing pretty good for myself, you know?
现在是新世纪，新工作 It's a new century, new job,
所以我在考虑 so I'm actually entertaining
买一只给她 the thought of getting her one of these,
买一只特别的马 you know, a special horse.
我们走下去游乐场 We go down to the fairground.
她说爸爸，为什么那只马 走路那么奇怪？ She says, Daddy, why is that horse walking so funny?
为什么它的背会那样皱起来？ Why is his -- his back all crumpled up like that?
我告诉她，我说 Well, I tell her, I say,
亲爱的，等一只马的工作全部做完 Honey, once the work has gotten used all up out of a horse...
就会变这样… this is what happens...
他们这个年纪问不完的问题好有趣 Amusing, their relentless questions at that age.
对，我跟她说事情的本质就是这样 That's right. I tell her, This is the nature of things.
有人要砍燕麦 Someone has to hew the oats,
有人则要收获玉米 要耙松土，要耕种 someone has to harvest the corn, the harrow, the tiller.
你们两位怎么会在这里？ Why are you gentlemen down here?
你们是种什么的？ Uh, now, what do you grow?
种棉花吗？ You grow cotton?
蔗糖 Sugar.
蔗糖…蔗糖 Sugar...Sugar.
小心一点，亲爱的 Careful, mon cher,
你开始吓到他了 you're beginning to frighten the man.
嗯… Um...
我看着我女儿哭花的脸，我跟她说 So, I look at my daughter's tear-stained face and I say to her,
美琪，这就是爸爸卖拖拉机的原因 Maggie, that's why your daddy sells tractors.
万国法尔毛收割机 International Harvester Farmall.
拿去吧 Go ahead and take that.
可能派得上用场 Might come in handy.
我说的是燃气驱动 So I am talking about gas-powered,
开式齿轮的驮兽 open-geared beast of burden.
呜拉拉 Ooh-la-la.
这里好奢华 This is fancy, right here.
先说清楚，两位 Uh, just to be clear here, gents,
我们…我们是来讨论农作设备的 we -- we are here to talk about farm equipment.
对吗？ Am I right?
还有流线拖拉机 Mm. And a streamline tractor, you know,
不只能增加你们的产量 not only gonna increase your harvest,
还能让你们的孩子不会以泪洗面 but it's gonna keep your child from tears.
哦，谢谢 Oh, thank y-you.
你，呃… You, uh,
你的袖子上… on your sleeve...
等你准备好，路易 Whenever you're ready, Louis.
我就知道，我就知道你们… I knew it. I knew you...
搞什么？ What the fuck?
脖子，咬脖子，路易 The neck. Bite the neck, Louis.
不对… No...
不是，血不是用咬的 No, you don't bite the blood.
用吸的 You suck it.
对…好多了 Yes, yes, that's better.
很好 Good.
下一张地毯我想买波斯地毯 For our next carpet, I'm thinking Persian.
阿拉伯式图案的 Arabesque maybe.
我们需要更有效率的方法处理垃圾 Certainly need a more efficient way of ridding the waste.
第一次是最笨手笨脚的 The first time is the most unwieldy.
很快你就会上手了 Soon you'll be a natural.
你会开始乐在其中 享受当中的变化、小惊喜 You'll come to enjoy it, its variations, little surprises.
我…我要回家 I-I gotta go home.
现在这里就是你家，路易 This is your home now, Louis.
深呼吸 Breathe.
我…我要回家拿钱 I -- I gotta collect money from the cribs.
我这里有我们需要的钱，深呼吸 I have all the money we need. Breathe.
我得回去看嘉丽丝跟保罗 I have to go see Grace and Paul.
哦，亲爱的 Oh, dear.
你该死的没在听我说话！ You ain't fuckin' hearin' me!
我…我必须回家 I -- I need to go home.
你会发现很难回到家 You're going to find that very difficult.
嘿！ Hey!
搞什么？ What the hell?
嘿 Hey, now.
你拿了我就得付钱 That's coming out of my pay.
我的天啊！ Lord Jesus!
让我进去！ Lemme in!
让我进去，该死！ Let me in, God damn it!
快把该死的门打开！ Open the fucking door!
太阳赐予万物生命，除了我们以外 The sun gives life to everything but us.
我应该跟你说的 I should have taught you that.
吸血鬼的生活有其挑战 The life of a vampire has its challenges
及报酬… and its rewards...
但我想纽奥良 ...but I think New Orleans,
它的音乐、文化 美食、船坞、远离家乡 with its music, culture, cuisine, shipping yards, conventioneers,
前来参加会议的人、寻求刺激的旅客 thrill-seeking tourists far-flung from their homes,
当地警察自由放任的态度 the laissez-faire attitude of the local police force
是的… oh, yes...
完美环境，适合吸血鬼居住… the perfect setting for a vampire home...
适合吸血鬼谈情说爱 a vampire romance.
我才不会睡在那里面 I ain't sleepin' in there.
我们很快就会弄一张你的床 We'll get you your own soon enough.
你来日方长，路易 You've had a long life, Louis,
而且前途似锦 and such an extraordinary one ahead.
休息一下吧 Have a rest.
没关系 It's okay.
你可以睡上面 You can be on top.
狂欢作乐啊 Helluva bender.
他透过相遇拉着我一头往前 He rushed me headlong through the encounter
仿佛一切可以抛诸脑后 as if it were something to put behind us.
死亡、重生、出柜、杀人 Death, rebirth, coming out, homicide,
一个晚上太多的第一次了 too many firsts for one night.
出柜？ Coming out?
你抢走了一个女儿的父亲 可能还抢走了宠物马 You robbed a daughter of her father, maybe a pet pony.
这跟性向有什么关系？ How's sexuality play in that?
这个问题很复杂，丹尼尔 It's a complicated question, Daniel,
不应该跟销售员的死混为一谈 and we shouldn't conflate it with the salesman's death.
-说一下让我笑笑 -为了让你不再好奇 Humor me. To satisfy your fixation,
被黎斯特变身 being transformed by Lestat,
被他激起欲望 being desired by him,
跟他同床共枕 都是揭开我那方面本性的序曲 bedding down with him was an overture of sorts to that side of my nature.
各地的酷儿理论家都羞惭了 To the shame of queer theorists everywhere.
我是自愿进到那口棺材里的 I got in that coffin on my own free will.
在无声的黑暗里 In the quiet dark,
我们是平等的 we were equals.
白人导师，黑人学生 White master, Black student,
但在无声黑暗中彼此平等 but equal in the quiet dark.
兴风作浪 Provocation.
上了你的线上课程后 Is this the primary tool
就会获得这个基本工具吗？ one walks away with after downloading your Internet class?
兔肉三吃，还有吕佩尔狐 或叫大耳沙狐 Rabbit, three ways, and Vulpes rueppellii, or Ruppell's sand fox.
先回到销售员那里一下 Back to the salesman for a sec.
显然，你被它困扰着 Clearly, you were haunted by it,
他的血的味道在你喉头里 the taste of his blood in the back of your throat,
牙龈里… up in your gums.
我问你，丹尼尔 Let me ask you, Daniel,
你切下那块兔肉前 会思索兔子的一生吗？ do you contemplate the life of the rabbit before you cut it?
还是就直接切下去？ Or do you simply cut?
吸血鬼是杀手 Vampires are killers,
是顶尖猎食者，他们的全视之眼 就是要让他们有所抽离 apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment,
让他们能够完整地观看一个人的生命 the ability to see a human life in its entirety,
不是无病呻吟的伤痛 not with any mawkish sorrow,
而是带着成为该生命尽头的 but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end
嗜血快感 of that life
并介入了神圣计划 and having a hand in the divine plan.
不要期待所有读者都会买单 Don't expect every reader to swallow that one.
这就是目的所在 That's the purpose.
我们的书必须极具警告性 Our book must be a warning as much as anything.
问题的方向对了 It was the right line of questioning.
那个销售员困扰着我 I was haunted by the salesman,
身为一位初出茅庐的吸血鬼 and as a fledgling vampire,
我还没准备好开始猎杀 I did not readily take to killing.
我刚开始学英语的时候，我恨死了 When I first started learning English, I abhorred it.
每个字都像门把从我的嘴里掉出来 Every word felt like a doorknob falling out of my mouth.
帽子这样念、星星这样念 Chapeau is a hat, etoile was a star...
杀人不是学第二语言 Killin' folks ain't a second language.
但等我开始用英语作梦 But when I started dreaming in English,
就是我拥抱它的时候 that's when I embraced it.
现在呢 And now,
我要感谢英语子音 造就了这优秀的下巴线条 I have English consonants to thank for this astonishing jawline.
我现在做的是恶梦，黎斯特，不是美梦 These are nightmares I'm having, Lestat, not dreams.
芬恩，你的手还好吗？ Finn, how's your arm?
有好好复原吗？ Is it healing properly?
你可能需要一个好医生，朋友 You might need a proper doctor, my friend.
我的手没事 Me arm's fine.
如果需要医生，跟我说 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.
你在帮奥尔德曼整修的那间新赌场 The new gaming house you're fixing up for the alderman,
我想管理它 I want to manage it.
我很会跟人交际 I'm good with people,
也很有数字概念 and I'm good with numbers.
嗯… Hmm...
我会去跟芬威克说 I'll take it up with Fenwick.
非常感谢 Much obliged.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
你知道他在说谎 He's lying, you know.
他会知道我很会算钱 He'll figure I'm a bean counter.
不是，他想做那个工作 这样他就可以从你那里偷钱 No, he wants the job so he can steal from you.
超收酒水跟女人的钱… 不会多到被你发现 Overcharge for drinks and women... not enough for you to notice,
但足以让他好好地赚 but enough to make him good extra,
他是这样说的 he calls it.
你之所以知道 是因为你刚刚进到他脑袋里？ And you know that 'cause you got in his head just now?
吸血鬼会读心术，亲爱的 Vampires can read minds, mon cher.
对 Right.
你要独享那个能力多久？ And you gon' sit on that skill for how long?
嗯 Hmm.
要我跪下来求你吗？ You gon' make me beg?
可能有人觉得读心术 是一个很实用的礼物 One might think the ability to read a mind a most useful gift,
但其实蛮乏味的 but, in reality, it's quite mundane.
我大部分都忘记我会 I forget I can do it most days.
是吗？ Is that right?
每个人类念头可以归结为三件事… Every human thought boils down to three things...
我想要食物 I want food,
我想要性爱 I want sex,
我想回家 I want to go home.
你有看到那边那个人吗？ You see that man right there?
我要你剥开所有声音 直到你找到他的心跳声 I want you to peel away every sound until you find his heartbeat.
抓住那个心跳声 Now hold the heartbeat.
你有听到他的肺流泄、喷出气体吗？ You hear his lungs leaking and flooding air?
他的心只是另一种肉体之声而已 His mind is just another bodily sound.
距离上一餐过了一天半 Day and a half since my last meal.
教堂说祈祷吧 Church says, Pray about it.
主不能让我没有食物 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，因为我不会怀孕 It's not cheating with a woman because I can't get pregnant.
我想要性爱 I want sex.
我要丢下这个小镇去当大人物 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，我刚刚闪过他家的样子 Wait. I saw a little flash just now of his house.
对 Yes.
以后你就知道了，随着你的力量增长 你会可以看见他们的思绪 You'll see, as your powers grow, you can see their thoughts,
几乎像看单盘视频一样 like a one-reeler almost.
暗淡单调的电影 Dull, monotonous picture shows.
这是一个非常碍事的礼物 盘中肉微不足道的思索 It's a very distracting gift, the petty musings of meat.
换你来剥开我 Peel back on me then.
我现在在想什么？ What am I thinkin' right now?
你得自己告诉我才行 You'll have to tell me yourself.
分享黑暗之礼时会有所牺牲 A sacrifice is made when the Dark Gift is shared.
你现在读不了我的心了？ You can't read my mind anymore?
做出我们这个作品的建筑师 旨在使我们谦卑 The architects of our creation mean to humble us.
我们任由其他人所主宰 We're at the mercy of the other's discretion.
就跟待宰的肉一样 Just like the meat.
嗯 Hmm.
你已经跟他们不同了，雏鸟 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.
我会帮你瓦解 I'll break you of it.
我对于与人性分离的不情愿 My unwillingness to separate from humanity
是我吸血鬼生活中持续不断的挣扎 was a constant struggle in my vampiric existence.
我感觉有必要有所连结 I felt it was essential to maintain ties.
但是越来越困难 But it was getting more difficult.
8点开始演出 The curtain goes up at eight.
我们只会在这里待一小时而已 We'll only be here an hour.
他们会让我们坐到很晚 They'll seat us late,
我们会错过诺拉跟圣诞树的开场 and we'll miss Nora's entrance with the Christmas tree.
你什么都不会错过 You ain't gon' miss anything.
看这吹得是什么风啊 Look what the wind blew in.
妈 Mama.
你记得这位黎斯特 You remember Lestat.
德普安特杜拉克女士，感谢你的邀请 Madame de Pointe du Lac, all the kindness for the invitation.
我不记得有邀请他 I don't remember inviting him,
不过还是请过于盛装打扮地玩得开心 but please, take your overdressed self and have a fine time.
我看到你前院有班卓琴乐团 I see you have a banjo band in your front yard.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
女士 Madame.
路易 Louis.
有需要那样吗？ Was that necessary?
你搬到半英里远 Move half a mile away,
半季没回来看家人 don't come see your family for half a season.
不要一回来就那么脆弱，儿子 Don't come back fragile, son.
没人来敲门找我啊 Haven't heard a knock on my door.
两边都是半英里远啊，妈 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.
还戴墨镜 And the glasses?
某些像他这样的男人会有的打扮 Some fashion certain men like him do.
天啊 Lord.
眼科医生说我现在开始要戴墨镜 Eye doc says I gotta wear them from now forward.
眼睛很敏感 Sensitive eyes.
你有看到嘉丽丝吗？ You seen Grace about?
你有看到我的鳄鱼吗，女士？ You seen my alligator, ma'am?
我好像在酒杯旁弄丢了 Seems I lost it by the punchbowl.
哦，我们太久没见了 Oh, been too long.
我知道… I know, I know.
等一下 Wait.
我的天啊 Oh, my.
你要让我当舅舅了吗？ You makin' me an uncle right here?
谁告诉你的？ Who told you?
没人告诉我 No one told me.
一定是李维 It was Levi.
我看你的表情就知道了 I could tell by the look on your face.
还不够久 I ain't far enough along.
-他不应该跟别人说的 -而且… -He shouldn't be telling anyone. -And...
-而且… -而且什么？ -And... -And what?
是双胞胎 Gon' be twins.
你现在是蒙古大夫啦？ You a fool doctor now?
哦，我好想你，路易 Oh, I miss you, Louis.
是啊 Yeah.
你有听到我说的吗？ You hearin' me?
看着我，路易 Look at me, Louis.
把眼镜拿掉，看着你妹妹 Take them glasses off and look at your baby sister.
不要，还给我 Don't. Gimme those back.
你的眼睛… Your eyes...
好像教堂窗户 like a church window.
一样的眼睛，一样的我 Same eyes, same me.
不一样了 Different you.
是更好的你 Better you, I'd say.
你再躲我躲那么久 You hide from me this long again,
我会找到你，然后扇你巴掌 I'll hunt you down and slap you sideways.
我有东西要给你 I got you something.
不要，路易，这是什么？ Oh, no, Louis. What is this?
我不需要你的钱 I don't need your money.
不是给你的，是给宝宝们的 It ain't for you, it's for the babies.
不要再说宝宝们了 Stop it with the babies.
一个就够多了 One's gon' be plenty.
有两个 There's two of 'em.
嗯 Well.
那这就用得到了 This'll come in handy, then.
李维不是你这种商人 Levi ain't the businessman you are.
你在那里过得怎样？ So, how's it in the district?
如果还有这些闲钱，一定过得不错 Must be good if this here's extra.
哦 Oh.
我知道现在很难看得出来 Now, I-I know it's hard to see it now,
但芬威克先生的妓院在贝森街的这一边 but Mr. Fenwick gon' have himself the most profitable
会更有利可图 sportin' house this side of Basin Street.
奥尔德曼肯定是这样想的 The alderman certainly thinks so,
但这样你得问问自己 为什么他会请我来 but then you have to ask yourself why he sent me.
因为新事业，新合作伙伴 New business, new partner.
不对，卡罗先生 No, sir, Mr. Carlo,
是我的话也会如法炮制 I-I'd do the same thing myself.
你有自己的私人律师，对吧，孩子？ You got your own personal attorney, do you, boy?
没有 No, sir.
但我不是奥尔德曼，对吧？ But then, I'm not an alderman, am I?
对，你是他的合作伙伴 No, you're his partner.
嗯 Hm.
这些阳台只能是装饰性质的 These balconies, they have to be decorative only.
建筑规章只允许用于住所，而非商业上 Building codes allow those for residents, not for business.
前提是它们是阳台的话 Well, that's only if you call it a balcony.
不然是什么？ What are you callin' it?
逃生口 Fire escape.
很聪明嘛，孩子 That's clever, my boy.
非常聪明 That's very clever.
对 Right.
几十间房 Dozen rooms,
好音响给乐手们使用 proper acoustics for the musicians.
很适合让人在此等待 You know, good for those waitin'.
最好要盖过墙后进行的事 Best to drown out the business behind the walls.
对 Yes.
你脑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?
我知道有些涂漆看起来要价不菲 I-I know some of the finishes seem penny heavy,
但我们挂的是奥尔德曼的名字 but it's the alderman's name goin' out there,
每个细节都必须独一无二 so every detail has to shout exclusivity.
你很聪明又有生意头脑嘛 You're bright and industrious, huh?
我相信你也会每个过程都好好监工吧？ I trust you're overseeing all stages of construction as well?
是的，先生 Yes, sir.
逃生口 Fire escape.
我得说，我本来还有所怀疑 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%.
你真的是一个优秀的黑鬼 You truly are an exceptional Negro.
谢谢，先生 Thank you, sir.
啊，逃生口 Ah, fire escape.
优秀黑鬼 Exceptional Negro.
是啊 Ah, yes.
谢谢，先生 Thank you, sir.
我一辈子的应对进退都是如此 It was the call and response of my entire life.
我让他们这样对我说话太久了 I had let them talk to me like that so long,
久到我都听不到了 I stopped hearing it.
是的，先生 Yes, sir.
当然，先生 Of course, sir.
主词、动词、一致性，先生 Subject, verb, agreement, sir.
微笑、点头 Smile, nod,
是的，先生 yes, sir.
它们都来自我体内同样的器官… They all came from the same organ inside me...
一个当时科学还未知的器官 an organ unknown to science at the time.
因为哪个科学家会去研究 Because what scientist would look for an organ
一个只会使用自己的软弱 爬上去的黑人器官？ found only in Black men who use their weakness to rise?
但我已经不是人了 But I wasn't a man anymore.
我是别的东西 I was something else.
我现在有了力量 还有好几十年的愤怒要处理 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,
只是随机又不幸的结果 the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery.
就算不是他，也会是下一个人 If not him, would have been the next man.
路易，孩子… Louis, my boy, j...
这位是你老板的代理人 This was your man's esquire, sent in his stead!
我当时很饥渴 I was hungry.
石头是从你做生意的地方砸出来的 Stone's throw from your place of business.
你在想什么？ What were you thinking?
他不尊重我 He disrespected me.
怎样不尊重？ How did he do that?
他说我做得好 He told me I did a good job.
你真是充满困惑 You are a library of confusion.
有些事… There's some things...
你不懂美国，黎斯特 you don't get about America, Lestat.
好啊，又要讲这个 Yes, let's have this conversation again.
有色人种、白人、克里奥尔人、法国人 Colored, white. Creole, French.
酷儿，半酷儿 大部分是酷儿，这是怎样？ Queer, half-queer, mostly queer, what is it?
没有一个有歧视性 Non-discriminating.
我的意思是我们这里的情况很复杂 Complicated situation we got here's what I'm saying.
几位教区神父失踪 A couple of parish priests go missing,
大家会说好吧，很有可能是恋童癖 people say, Fine. Most likely kid-fiddlers.
但他 But this,
他是镇上的重要人物 this was an important man in town.
警察会找他，雏鸟 The police will be looking for this man, fledgling.
所以才会养出这头怪兽，不是吗？ That's why we got this beast, yeah?
你得好好控制自己，雏鸟！ No, you need to show restraint, fledgling!
你最好不要再用那个字了 Oh, you need to stop using that word right now,
因为听起来有点像奴隶 'cause it's soundin' a little like slave.
不要说 Don't say it.
听起来就像这样啊 Well, that's what it fuckin' sound like.
有时候感觉就是这样 It's what it feel like sometimes.
又要无病呻吟了 And the carousel comes around again.
去你的 Fuck you.
法文 Speaking French
我不喜欢饿肚子睡觉 I don't like sleeping angry.
郑重声明 For the record,
如果你受到任何不敬 我一定亲手杀了他 if disrespect was done to you, I would have killed him myself.
嗯，我要怎么补偿你？ Well, what can I do to make it up to you?
我想买下公平竞争酒馆 I wanna buy the Fair Play Saloon.
这野心很大 That's ambitious.
如果你不想帮忙，我就自己来 If you don't wanna help, I'll do it myself.
把人类跟吸血鬼事业 搅和在一起很不明智 Ridiculous of you to mix human and vampire business.
结局都会很惨 It always ends poorly.
但我怎么会阻止你呢？ But how can I stop you?
我怎么能拒绝你呢？ How can I say no to you?
在这里、这里跟这里签名 Sign here and here and here.
我没在文件里看到条款 Well, I do not see the clause in this paperwork
写明我可以继续在这里吃吃喝喝跟乱搞 wherein I continue to eat, drink, and fornicate on the house.
路易？ Louis?
你有我的话做担保 You have my word,
我的话比文件有力… and my word is thicker than paper...
-嗯 -汤 -Mm. -Tom.
黎斯特表现大方及充满爱意 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.
我成了那一区 最光彩夺目的俱乐部的老板 And I was now the owner of the brightest club in the district.
我的俱乐部，我的规矩 My club, my rules.
我对那些想烧钱的人敞开大门 I opened the doors to anyone with money to burn.
我支付员工更好的薪水 I paid the staff better,
支付乐团更好的薪水 paid the band better,
同时帮助那些在下面就跟着我的人 all the while helping those who had been with me
让他们能过得更好 down the block to better themselves.
威廉丝小姐 Miss Williams.
杜拉克先生 Mr. Du Lac.
出于无意义的自尊心 And it was a pointless point of pride
我将向黎斯特借的一分一毫都还清了 that I paid back every cent I borrowed from Lestat.
那是我梦寐以求的东西 It was everything I had ever wanted or wished for.
但加倍成了一个生生不息的猎物之门 And it doubled nicely as a revolving door of prey.
两位知道公平竞争酒馆在哪里吗？ You fellas know where I can find the Fair Play Saloon?
你晚来五年了 You about five years late.
你要在镇上待多久？ So how long are you in town for?
对，我只是… Uh, yeah, I'm just --
从1912到1917年 From 1912 to 1917,
我赚了大把银山 I made a mountain of money,
足以引退，并像法老般地被安葬 enough to retire and be buried like a pharaoh.
但在遗嘱执行人的基本职责上 But in the essential duties of the executor in charge,
我却怠忽职守 I had been most delinquent.
我们把他取名为班哲文 We named him Benjamin.
小班 Benny.
你见过双胞胎了吗？ Did you even meet the twins?
没有，女士 No, ma'am.
女士？ Ma'am?
我看起来那么老吗？ I look that old to you?
不是，我的意思是 No, I mean,
我还没能有幸见到更多的家人 I haven't had the pleasure of meetin' more of the family.
我工作忙得不可开交… I've been so busy with work, and, you know...
忙着他吗？ Him?
你了解我的情况 You know my situation.
你们的状况怎么样，你跟… How are things with you and...
还是黎斯特，对吧？ It's Lestat still, right?
-对，还是黎斯特 -嘘！ -Yes, it's Lestat. -Shh!
我炉子上还有一些秋葵浓汤 Got some gumbo on the stove still.
晚餐吃还满好吃的 Tasted great this evening.
我弄一点给你吃 Let me fix you something.
我不用 I'm good.
抱一下你侄子 Hold your nephew.
他是最安静的 He's the quiet one, this one.
另外两个…双胞胎 The other two...the twins?
我的天啊，帮个忙吧 Lord, help us.
好了，汤来了 All right. Here it is.
还是温的 Still warm.
怎么样？ Well?
抱过去吧 No, please.
看起来不错啊 You look good.
你今晚应该留下来 You should stay the night.
妈一定很想见你 I'm sure Mama would love to see you.
嘘… Shh, shh.
看看他会不会睡回去 Let's see if he goes back down, let's see.
亲爱的，双胞胎又来了！ Honey, the twins again!
嘉丽丝！ Grace!
好吧 Okay.
我…我去看一下到底怎么了 Let -- Let me just see what the hell is goin' on.
-不，我… -嘘 -Oh, no, I... -Shh.
我不再杀戮了 I no longer kill.
我最后一个受害者是在2000年 My last victim was in the year 2000.
是什么Y2K情仇吗？ Some Y2K disagreement?
我希望我们的读者了解这点 I want our readers to understand that.
好 Okay.
那你有吃那个婴儿吗？ Did you eat the baby?
我坐在这里，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?
他们有主宰自己的本能吗？ Have they mastered theirs?
正好相反 Just the opposite.
他们大部分是血液的奴隶 Most of them are slaves to the blood,
数十年、数世纪的躲藏 exhausted from decades,
让他们精疲力竭 centuries of hiding,
迫不及待地想增加数量 giddy to increase their numbers.
嗯哼 Mm-hmm.
两个问题… Two questions...
你有吃那个婴儿吗？ did you eat the baby?
还有，疫情是他们期待已久的序幕吗？ And is the pandemic the opening they've been waiting for?
疫情，地缘政治基础的瓦解 Pandemic, the unraveling of geopolitical foundations.
你怎么知道？ And you know this how?
你们在讨论版上有讨论串吗？ You guys have a thread on 8chan?
我听到的 I hear them.
我们的思绪 可以移动数千英里远传给彼此 Our thoughts can travel thousands of miles to one another.
我可以站在我的阳台上 I can stand out on my balcony,
闭上双眼，他们会传送给我 close my eyes, and they're plotting speeds to me.
其中一个 One of them,
一个在马达加斯加的野兽 将疫情称作巨大转换 a brute in Madagascar, called it the great conversion.
巨大转换？ The great conversion?
那祝你们好运了 Well, good luck with that,
因为大部分我认识的人 都喜欢下午踢点小球 because most people I know like to play little ball in the afternoon,
或是去海边晒点太阳 or maybe going down to the beach, catching a few rays.
是啊 Yes.
西维吉尼亚州 一位安非他命成瘾的矿工儿子 What on earth would a meth-addicted son of a coal miner
怎么可能会想要永生呢？ in West Virginia want with eternal life?
你有吃那个婴儿吗？ Did you eat the baby?
或是阿拉伯年轻人怎么会被 一位西部来的游手好闲者 Or the Arab youth whose family were wiped from existence...
-灭门呢？-你有吃那个婴儿吗？ -by a Western drone? -Did you eat the baby?
不会，所以你一定是对的 No, I'm sure you're right.
嗨，达米克 Hello, Damek.
嘿 Hey.
俄文 Speaking Russian
他是美国人，达米克 He's American, Damek.
你喜欢迪拜吗？ You like Dubai?
我还没有时间去观光 I haven't had the time to sight-see.
去风筝海滩 Go to Kite Beach.
那里很棒，有风筝 It's good. Kites.
谢谢你，达米克 Thank you, Damek.
很快再见 See you soon.
如我所说的，我不再杀戮了 As I was saying, I no longer kill.
你可能有酗血问题 You might have a drinking problem.
拉希德！ Rashid!
那个婴儿 The baby.
小班？小班！ Benny? Benny!
我把他抱在我怀里… I had him in my arms...
准备大快朵颐 and I was ready to tear into him.
那永远无法操之在我 I'm never gon' get control over it.
你最近都没吃饭 You've been skipping meals lately.
-不要以为我没注意到 -那是我外甥 -Don't think I haven't noticed. -It was my nephew.
你不能再去见他们了，路易 You have to stop seeing them, Louis.
他们迟早会开始害怕你的 They'll grow fearful of you if they haven't already.
我做不到 I can't do it.
这是我们都必经的通过仪礼 It's a rite of passage for all of us.
如果你爱你的家人 而我也知道你爱着他们 If you love your family, as I know you do,
就让他们免受这些你带来的所有苦痛 spare them all the pain that you are causing them.
我永远不会有自己的家庭，对吧？ I ain't never gon' have a family of my own, am I?
没有儿子，没有女儿 No sons, no daughters.
我就是你的家，路易 I'm your family, Louis.
你应该直接把我丢进焚化炉再重做一个 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.
我走过这个世界两世纪，我可以说 I have two centuries walked this Earth and can report,
你独一无二，没人跟你一样愤怒 you have no twin. No one as angry,
固执、不肯通融 as stubborn, as unaccommodating,
-让人恼怒… -听起来像个垃圾 -as maddening... -Sound like trash to me.
一样充满着爱、尽心尽力、一样体贴 As loving, as dedicated, as thoughtful,
一样如此不完美地完美 as imperfectly perfect as you've become.
每个日落你都是个挑战，圣路易 You're a challenge every sunset, Saint Louis,
而我就喜欢这样 and I'd have it no other way.
我有个主意… Here's an idea...
我们放假一下 let's take a holiday.
罗马怎么样？ What about Rome?
罗马？ Rome?
意大利的罗马？ R-Rome, Italy?
还是你比较想去威斯康辛州的罗马？ Would you prefer Rome, Wisconsin?
我不能说走就走，我有工作要做 I can't just pick up and go to Rome. I got a business to run.
把杜鹃花交给会做事的布丽塔小姐 Leave the Azalea to the capable hands of Miss Bricktop
条条大路通罗马 and follow the Appian Way.
你要怎么让棺材横越大西洋？ How you gon' get coffins across the Atlantic?
可能不容易，但当然不是不可能 It can be an inconvenience, but not impossible, obviously.
你要怎么把它们从船上 移到火车上、马车上？ Well, how do you get them from ship to train to cab?
这部分我得承认是蛮麻烦的 Ah, the changeovers can be jarring, I'll give you that.
也许我们可以雇用 Well, maybe there's a deaf,
一个又瞎又聋的行李员 等到了酒店就把他杀了 blind porter we can hire and kill when we get to the hotel.
我有想过去英格兰 Well, I had been thinking the Inghilterra.
但想像一下，在古希腊咖啡馆 Imagine hunting between the Caffe Greco
和西班牙广场之间狩猎 and the Spanish Steps.
不过你说的有理 But you've made your point.
可惜 Pity.
我们只能坐等罗马来找我们了 We'll just have to settle for Rome coming to us.
哦，又是歌剧 Oh, another opera.
不是随便的歌剧，是董尼采第的 喜剧杰作《唐帕斯夸莱》 Not another opera. Donizetti's comic masterpiece, Don Pasquale.
我与他相识 I was an acquaintance of his,
73年前在巴黎的意大利剧院看过首演 and I saw the premiere at the Salle Ventadour 73 years ago,
仿佛昨天，历历在目 and I remember it like it was yesterday.
我差点吃了我侄子，黎斯特 I almost ate my nephew, Lestat.
这是女高音苏菲亚康索利的美国首演 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,
管弦乐队应该要很棒 so the orchestra should be in excellent form.
我有私人包厢，还请人做了燕尾服 I have a private box, and I had tuxedos made.
我一直没有好好经营我们的关系 I've been neglectful of our romance.
而且，一个坚定不移的学生 值得天赐嘉奖 And a steadfast pupil deserves a divine reward.
黎斯特头几年自有一套 He had a way about him, those first years, Lestat.
异于常人地有魅力 Preternaturally charming,
有时候很体贴 occasionally thoughtful.
他是杀了我的人、我的导师、我的爱人 He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover,
我的造物者… and my maker...
同时集这些于一身 all of those things at once.
他不是选我来当他的踏脚垫的 He didn't choose me to be his doormat.
我知道他很享受我的反击 I knew he enjoyed it when I fought back,
但那里面有一种崇拜 but there was present a kind of worship on my part.
我脚底下的土地总是像液体般 The earth beneath me always felt liquid.
我在史多瑞维尔享受的身份地位 The status I enjoyed in Storyville
并未延续到在波旁和图卢兹 did not extend itself to the operators
法国歌剧院的经营者和赞助人上 and patrons of the French Opera House on Bourbon and Toulouse.
为避免冲突，我们在那里 用我们一贯的方式互动 We did what we always did to avoid conflicts there.
我表现得像是他的贴身侍从 I performed as his valet,
在他背后，距他一步之远 walked a pace behind him,
找到位置后，替他脱下大衣 took his overcoat once we found our seats,
直到灯光变暗前都站在包厢后方 remained standing in the back of the box until the lights went down,
直到序曲响起才在他身旁坐下 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,
我坐下来，试着练习自我克制 so that as I sat there trying to practice restraint,
酝酿我的愤怒… simmering in my indignation...
黎斯特趁机卸下我的心防 Lestat seized it as opportunity to disarm me.
当吸血鬼有一件事 There is one thing about being a vampire
最让我害怕… that I most fear above all else...
就是孤单 and that is loneliness.
你无法想像那个空虚感… You can't imagine the emptiness...
数十年、每次绵延而出的那个空洞 a void stretching out for decades at a time.
你将那个感觉带离了我，路易 You take this feeling away from me, Louis.
我们一定要在一起、未雨绸缪 We must stay together and take precaution
永不分离 and never part.
有多少个我们在外面？ How many of us are out there?
不可能只有我们两个 We can't be the only ones.
多少个吸血鬼吗？ How many vampires?
恐怕不多 Not many, I'm afraid.
可能100、101个 Maybe 100, 101.
《唐帕斯夸莱》的巡回演出廉价粗俗 The touring production of Don Pasquale was a cheap affair,
但黎斯特对女高音赞不绝口 but the soprano was everything Lestat said she would be.
而音乐 And music,
黎斯特将之用以区别人与食物 that was where Lestat separated man from food.
音乐穿透他受诅咒的灵魂 Music pierced his damned soul.
任何与之相关的人类 And any humans who were involved with the creation
在他眼里都被提升到另一种境界 of it existed on an elevated plane in his eyes.
看到他也拥有人性依恋让我深受感动 I was moved to see he too had his human attachments.
这位女子似乎在为我们歌唱 And this woman sang for us, it seemed,
将我们无法好好表达的困难爱意 articulating the difficult love
句句清晰地表达了出来 we often had trouble expressing ourselves.
不过，有个问题 There was one issue, however,
几乎要戳破了 我们意大利假期的粉红泡泡 that threatened to pop the bubble of our Italian holiday,
那就是饰演俄内斯托的男高音 and that was the tenor playing Ernesto.
委婉地说 To be kind,
他跟女高音在不同的声音水平上… he did not live in the soprano's vocal stratosphere...
啊 Ah.
黎斯特为此很不悦 ...and Lestat was unamused.
我不懂这样的人怎么可以登台演出 I don't understand how someone like that can make it onto a stage.
我知道他们是间流氓公司 I understand they're a rogue company,
但难道他们 是随便从路边抓个人来演吗？ but are they pulling talent from roadside gas stations?
即使大部分的观众都未察觉 It didn't help matters that the majority
也无济于事 of the audience didn't seem to notice.
黎斯特的鄙视 And so Lestat oscillated his disdain
因此游移在男高音 和下方座席中的愚昧群众中 between the tenor and the witless swamp-dwellers in the seats below.
布幕像断头台一样落下 The curtain fell like a guillotine,
黎斯特随即站起嘲笑地欣赏着 and Lestat leapt to his feet in mock appreciation,
这只代表着一件事… which could mean only one thing...
狩猎开始了 the hunt was on.
我站在大厅酒吧里 I stood in the lobby bar,
看着一轮又一轮的买酒 nursing my complicity,
听着虚伪的称赞随话语起落 同时扮演着我的共谋角色 as rounds were bought and fake praise was lavished upon the mark.
我对一股朝我袭来的作呕感感到意外 And I was surprised by a wave of nausea coming over me.
当了他的学生六年 Here I was, six years his pupil,
现在跟拖拉机销售员当时无异 and it was no different than the tractor salesman.
这个可怜的灵魂是某个人的儿子 This poor soul was someone's son,
某个人的兄弟 someone's brother,
而他即将被宰杀 and he was to be butchered.
为了什么？ For what?
一个让人不悦的声调？ An offending note?
错了 Wrong.
他让男高音坐下 He sat the tenor down,
在他面前打开乐谱，并照着乐谱歌唱 opened up the score in front of him and sang as it was written.
你看得出那名年轻男子对自己所学 And you could see all the doubts the young man had about his art,
和对自己的所有怀疑 about himself,
在他频频点头的脸上一览无遗 exposed on his nodding, agreeable face.
黎斯特在不到半小时内 就将他一生的自信 Lestat removed a lifetime of confidence,
与喜悦一扫而空 of joy, in less than half an hour.
这里，跟这里 Here and here.
你就是在这里走音的 And this is where your voice went.
你让多米尼科葛塔诺玛利亚 提早进坟墓了… Sending Domenico Gaetano Maria into an early grave...
我是怎么知道的呢？ And how do I know this?
因为他写的时候我就在他的客厅！ Because I was in his Parlor when he wrote it!
你的声音再也无法污染这个世界了 So no more of your sound can pollute this world.
你为什么要这样，黎斯特？ Why do you do this, Lestat?
因为我喜欢 Well, I like to do it.
-我乐在其中 -但我没有 -I enjoy it. -Well, I don't.
你根本不需要羞辱他 You don't have to humiliate him.
我没说你也要乐在其中！ Well, I don't say that you have to enjoy it!
如果需要的话就杀快一点 Kill them swiftly if you have to,
反正杀就对了！ but do it!
拥抱你自己吧！ Embrace what you are!
你是个杀手，路易！ You are a killer, Louis!
来吧，亲爱的 Come now, love,
我们带你去沙发上死 let's get you to the couch to die.
我不认同 I was in denial.
在带来死亡这方面 For in bringing death,
黎斯特是艺术家 Lestat was an artist.
他温柔地划开那名男子 所以他无法求救 He had cut the man tenderly so that he could not call for help,
他的死亡也因此很缓慢 but also so that his death was slow,
有时间深思 meditative.
我很想亲眼见证 And I felt a charge witnessing it.
黎斯特饮用的时候，我听着他的思绪 I listened to his thoughts as Lestat drank,
这一次带着图像 and this time, they came with vision.
他在回想时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...
山上村庄的复活节庆典 the Easter pageant in a mountain village,
与他父亲一起在海上的下午 an afternoon with his father on the sea,
看着渔船缓缓包围一群金枪鱼 watching the fishing boats slowly encircle a school of tuna.
还有一片他口袋里的湿面包 Something about a wet piece of bread in his pocket.
如果你听我的 If you'd listen to me,
如果你最终顺从你的本性 if you finally submit to your nature,
你将被满足，路易 you will be filled, Louis,
同时握有你所想的人生 with all the life you can hold.
你将看见死亡的所有美丽之处 You will see death in all its beauty,
在死亡之际，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 只有你能看见无罪的死亡 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...
能像上帝之手般地张牙舞爪 can strike like the hand of God.
我再说第三次，此后不再多说… And I'll say it for a third time and no more...
他自有一套 he had a way about him.
而我依然深深臣服于他的力量 And I was still very much under his power.
我们那晚共饮男高音好几个小时 We would drain the tenor for hours that night.
黎斯特深深着迷于其中 Lestat completely enthralled.
我则假装沉醉 Myself, pretending to be.
深怕让他失望 Afraid to disappoint.
黎斯特错了 Lestat was wrong.
我永远不会上手 I was never going to be a natural.
我永远不会品尝那余味 I was never going to savor the aftertaste.
我是深感愧疚的二等货 I was a shame-ridden second,
一个笨拙沮丧的杀手 一个一团糟的吸血鬼 a fumbling, despondent killer, a botched vampire.
我尽量一个礼拜吃一道人类食物 来维持住那条线 I try to have a human dish once a week to maintain the thread.
你的回忆录里 有一段关于这道甜点的即席评论 There was an offhanded remark in your memoir about this dessert.
希望你别介意 I hope you don't mind.
你吃起来像什么？ What does this taste like to you?
跟几乎所有的人类食物一样… Like almost all human food...
像浆糊、粉笔，像肥皂 like paste, chalk, like soap.
这个甜点是我向第一任妻子 求婚后吃的甜点 This is the dessert I had after I proposed to my first wife,
在我冷静下来之后 after I got my shit together.
我们当时在巴黎 We were in Paris.
卢森堡街上的一家小咖啡馆 Little cafe on the Rue Servandoni,
在圣叙尔皮斯教堂上面一点 up the way from Saint-Sulpice.
我知道，那条街很漂亮 I know it. It's a beautiful street.
爱丽丝… Alice...
她眉毛一半是金色的 half of her eyebrow was blond,
像混种狗 like a mutt.
她都会把它染回咖啡色 She always dyed it back to brown.
我喜欢她放着不染 I liked it when she left it alone.