1. all that city. you just couldn't see the end to it. the end? please? you please just show me where it ends? it was all very fine on that gangway. and i was grand too, in my overcoat. i cut quite a figure. and i was getting off. guaranteed. there was no problem. it wasn't what i saw that stopped me, max. it was what i didn't see. you understand that? what i didn't see. in all that sprawling city there was everything except an end. there was no end. what i did not see was where the whole thing came to an end. the end of the world...
2. take a piano. the keys begin, the keys end. you know there are eightyeight of them, nobody can tell you any different. they are not infinite. you are infinite. and on these keys the music that you can make is infinite. i like that. that i can live by.
3. you get me up on that gangway and you're rolling out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end, and that's the truth, max. that they never end. that keyboard is infinite. and if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play. you're sitting on the wrong bench. that's god's piano
4. christ。 did, did you see the streets? just the streets… there were thousands of them。 and how do you do it down there? how do you choose just one? one woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die...
5. all that world is weighing down on me, you don't even know where it comes to an end, and aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it? the enormity of living it?
6. i was born on this ship, and the world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. and there were wishes here, but never more than fit between prow and stern. you played out your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite. i learned to live that way.
7. land? land is a ship too big for me. it's a woman too beautiful; it's a voyage too long, a perfume too strong. it's a music i don't know how to make. i could never get off this ship. at best, i can step off my life. after all, i don't exist for anyone. you're an exception, max, you're the only one who knows i'm here. you're a minority, and you better get used to it. forgive me, my friend, but i'm not getting off.
the end? please? can you please just show me where it ends?
盡頭在哪里?可以給我看看盡頭么?
it was all very final on that gangway and i was grant too in my over coat. i cut quite a figure, and i was getting off, guaranteed. that wasn’t the problem.
you are infinite. and on those keys, the music that you can make is infinite.
音樂(lè)是無(wú)限的。在琴鍵上,奏出無(wú)限的音樂(lè)。
i like that. that i can live by.
我喜歡那樣,我應(yīng)付得來(lái)。
you get me up on that gangway and you rill out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end.
走過(guò)跳板,前面的鍵盤有無(wú)數(shù)的琴鍵。
that’s the truth, max, they never end. that keyboard is infinite.
事實(shí)如此,無(wú)窮無(wú)盡,鍵盤無(wú)限大。
and if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play.
無(wú)限大的鍵盤,怎奏得出音樂(lè)?
you are sitting on the wrong bench. that’s god’s piano.
不是給凡人奏的,是給上帝奏的。
christ。 did you see the streets? just the street-----there were thousands of them.
唉。只是街道,已經(jīng)好幾千條。
how do you do it down there? how do you choose just one?
上了岸,何去何從?
one woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. all that world just weighing down on you. you don’t even know where it comes to an end.