Life of Pi的笔记(13)

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  ｅｍｏｌａ (亚历山大)

  很典型的传记小说，自虐式的西式吐槽满塞。我看过的传记电影不多，若要类比的话，李安大概能造出个基调类似阿甘正传、大鱼老爸或是三个傻瓜开头部分那样的东西。 有关具体场景，个人最为喜欢Yann Martel所描绘的动物园的风貌，此刻我甚至能想象，那些壮烈的排比，是如何变成前卫的镜头法和快速切换的蒙太奇 To me, it was paradise on earth. …… My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions. They were no S... (更多)

  很典型的传记小说，自虐式的西式吐槽满塞。我看过的传记电影不多，若要类比的话，李安大概能造出个基调类似阿甘正传、大鱼老爸或是三个傻瓜开头部分那样的东西。

  有关具体场景，个人最为喜欢Yann Martel所描绘的动物园的风貌，此刻我甚至能想象，那些壮烈的排比，是如何变成前卫的镜头法和快速切换的蒙太奇

  To me, it was paradise on earth. …… My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions. They were no Swiss clocks, but the lions could be counted upon to roar their heads off between five-thirtyand six every morning. Breakfast was punctuated by the shrieks and cries of howler monkeys, hillmynahs and Moluccan cockatoos. I left for school under the benevolent gaze not only of Mother but also of bright-eyed otters and burly American bison and stretching and yawning orang-utans. ……

  先是数帧画面给那只早醒的狮子、接下来几秒是吵闹用餐的猴子们、或许还有矮墙后的河马……主演用不打句点的语速在左声道旁白，同时动物的吠叫咆哮在右声道喧嚣。

  不论是缤纷的动物园景象，还是对动物园denied "freedom"观念的否认，抑或对flight distance的定义，无疑都是颇具侵略性而让人印象深刻的。然而Martel却以一段稍显怀念和忧伤的措辞作为动物园部分的结尾

  The Pondicherry Zoo doesn’t exist any more. Its pits are filled in, the cages torn down. I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

  这种抑扬，仿佛是见证一场盛大游行的结束，让人唏嘘不已。

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  话说这个新功能真神奇 (收起)

  2011-01-27 01:12:09   2回应

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  第46页

  LORENZO|㍿ (Quit, then start over.)

  P A R T T W O The Pacific Ocean CHAPTER 3 7 崩溃了，第37章才算真正海上历险开始，前36章都是铺垫，讲了各种动物性，人性，宗教，文化等等等等，长篇累牍，虽然很精彩也对后面的故事展开来说是必要的，但是的确篇幅太大了点。 大概占了全书五分之二啊。 (更多)

  P A R T T W O

  The Pacific Ocean

  CHAPTER 3 7

  崩溃了，第37章才算真正海上历险开始，前36章都是铺垫，讲了各种动物性，人性，宗教，文化等等等等，长篇累牍，虽然很精彩也对后面的故事展开来说是必要的，但是的确篇幅太大了点。

  大概占了全书五分之二啊。 (收起)

  2012-06-04 17:43:38   回应

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  第17页

  LORENZO|㍿ (Quit, then start over.)

  He spoke again. “Some people say God died during the Partition in 1947. He may have died in 1971 during the war. Or he may have died yesterday here in Pondicherry in an orphanage. That’s what some people say, Pi. When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio. I asked myself every day, ‘Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?’God never came. It wasn’t God who saved me— it was medic... (更多)

  He spoke again. “Some people say God died during the Partition in 1947. He may have died in 1971 during the war. Or he may have died yesterday here in Pondicherry in an orphanage. That’s what some people say, Pi. When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio. I asked myself every day, ‘Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?’God never came. It wasn’t God who saved me— it was medicine. Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die.

  Kumar先生这段话应该在Pi之后的遭遇中有不少启示意义。 (收起)

  2012-06-04 00:17:30   回应

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  LORENZO|㍿ (Quit, then start over.)

  “It’s Pissing Patel!” 啊哈哈Piscine（小Pi）被其他人嘲笑，中文翻译也不错，因为Piscine被翻译成“派西尼”，而伙伴们嘲笑他的绰号则是“排泄哩”！ 在上一章漫长的关于动物园的描述之后（恍然有种看《巴黎圣母院》时前几十页关于巴黎建筑的长篇描述的感觉），故事终于要缓缓展开了，佐以作者戏谑地第一人称自嘲口吻。 (更多)

  “It’s Pissing Patel!”

  啊哈哈Piscine（小Pi）被其他人嘲笑，中文翻译也不错，因为Piscine被翻译成“派西尼”，而伙伴们嘲笑他的绰号则是“排泄哩”！

  在上一章漫长的关于动物园的描述之后（恍然有种看《巴黎圣母院》时前几十页关于巴黎建筑的长篇描述的感觉），故事终于要缓缓展开了，佐以作者戏谑地第一人称自嘲口吻。 (收起)

  2012-06-03 23:57:05   回应

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  第10页

  LORENZO|㍿ (Quit, then start over.)

  Consider: the guests never leave their rooms; they expect not only lodging but full board; they receive a constant flow of visitors, some of whom are noisy and unruly. One has to wait until they saunter to their balconies, so to speak, before one can clean their rooms, and then one has to wait until they tire of the view and return to their rooms before one can clean their balconies; and there is ... (更多)

  Consider: the guests never leave their rooms; they expect not only lodging but full board; they receive a constant flow of visitors, some of whom are noisy and unruly. One has to wait until they saunter to their balconies, so to speak, before one can clean their rooms, and then one has to wait until they tire of the view and return to their rooms before one can clean their balconies; and there is much cleaning to do, for the guests are as unhygienic as alcoholics. Each guest is very particular about his or her diet, constantly complains about the slowness of the service, and never, ever tips. To speak frankly, many are sexual deviants, either terribly repressed and subject to explosions of frenzied lasciviousness or openly depraved, in either case regularly affronting management with gross outrages of free sex and incest. Are these the sorts of guests you would want to welcome to your inn?

  这段把动物园类比hotel的描写很有趣。 (收起)

  2012-06-03 23:46:13   回应

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  小R (老叔是世界上最可爱的人了)

  豆瓣上的分數好高，為什麼我才翻了幾頁就翻不下去了？不知道作者絮絮叨叨說那些動物是幹什麼的？誰能告訴我從第幾頁開始才是進入正題的？我被那些奇怪的動物的名字要搞瘋了，我看得是英文版的。。。。 (更多)

  豆瓣上的分數好高，為什麼我才翻了幾頁就翻不下去了？不知道作者絮絮叨叨說那些動物是幹什麼的？誰能告訴我從第幾頁開始才是進入正題的？我被那些奇怪的動物的名字要搞瘋了，我看得是英文版的。。。。 (收起)

  2012-03-28 15:13:34   回应

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  Takeo (节操掉了一地。)

  People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that they might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happines... (更多)

  People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that they might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible somewhere else.

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  2011-07-13 21:24:41   2回应

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  第143页

  butterswong (在月儿面前讲跳水～)

  As an aside, story of sole survivor, Mr. Piscine Molitor Patel, Indian citizen, is an astounding story of courage and endurance in the face of extraordinarily difficult and tragic circumstances. In the experience of this investigator, his story is unparalleled in the history of shipwrecks. Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an ad... (更多)

  As an aside, story of sole survivor, Mr. Piscine Molitor Patel, Indian citizen, is an astounding story of courage and endurance in the face of extraordinarily difficult and tragic circumstances. In the experience of this investigator, his story is unparalleled in the history of shipwrecks. Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.

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  2011-05-27 06:40:37   回应

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  butterswong (在月儿面前讲跳水～)

  What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in lif... (更多)

  What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. I wish so much that I'd had one last look at him in the lifeboat, that I'd provoked him a little, so that I was on his mind.

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  2011-05-27 05:37:08   回应

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  butterswong (在月儿面前讲跳水～)

  The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. The sea is without a wrinkle. There is not a whisper of wind. The hours last forever. You are so bored you sink into a state of apathy close to a coma. Then the sea becomes rough and your emotions are whipped into a frenzy. Yet even these tow opposites do not remain distinct. In you... (更多)

  The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. The sea is without a wrinkle. There is not a whisper of wind. The hours last forever. You are so bored you sink into a state of apathy close to a coma. Then the sea becomes rough and your emotions are whipped into a frenzy. Yet even these tow opposites do not remain distinct. In your boredom there are elements of terror: you break down into tears; you are filled with dread; you scream; you deliberately hurt yourself. And in the grip of terror - the worst storm - you yet feel boredom, a deep weariness with it all. Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing. You must make adjustments if you want to survive. Much becomes expendable. You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish.

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  2011-05-26 12:11:28   回应

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