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...
Take a piano.The keys begin,the keys end.You know there are eighty-eight 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.
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.
所有那些城市,你就是無法看見盡頭.盡頭?拜托!拜托你給我看它的盡頭在哪?當(dāng)時(shí),站在舷梯向外看還好.我那時(shí)穿著大衣,感覺也很棒,覺得自己前途無量,然后我就要下船去.放心!完全沒問題!可是,阻止了我的腳步的,并不是我所看見的東西,而是我所無法看見的那些東西.你明白么?我看不見的那些.在那個(gè)無限蔓延的城市里,什么東西都有,可惟獨(dú)沒有盡頭.根本就沒有盡頭.我看不見的是這一切的盡頭,世界的盡頭.
拿一部鋼琴來說,從琴鍵開始,又結(jié)束.你知道鋼琴只有88個(gè)鍵,隨便什么琴都沒差.它們不是無限的.你才是無限的,在琴鍵上制作出的音樂是無限的.我喜歡這樣,我活的慣.
你把我推到舷梯上然后扔給我一架有百萬琴鍵的鋼琴,百萬千萬的沒有盡頭的琴鍵,那是事實(shí),max,它們沒有盡頭.那鍵盤是無限延伸的.然而如果琴鍵是無限的,那么在那架琴上就沒有你能彈奏的音樂,你坐錯(cuò)了地方,那是上帝的鋼琴.