我叫艾麗西亞 My name is Alithea.
我的故事是真的 My story is true.
然而，你更有可能相信我 You're more likely to believe me，however,
如果把故事當做童話來講 if I tell it as a fairy tale.
所以，在很久很久以前 So，once upon a time,
當人類用金屬翅膀飛過天空時 when humans hurtled across the sky on metal wings,
當他們穿著鰭腳的時候 when they wore webbed feet
而在海底行走 and walked on the bottom of the sea,
當他們手裡拿著玻璃瓷磚 when they held in their hands glass tiles
能從空中發出情歌... that could coax love songs from the air...
有一個女人，很幸福，也很孤單 there was a woman，adequately happy and alone.
選擇獨自一人 Alone by choice.
開心是因為她是獨立的 Happy because she was independent,
靠她的學術頭腦的鍛鍊為生 living off the exercise of her scholarly mind.
她的工作是講故事 Her business was story.
她是一位敘述學家 She was a narratologist
致力於尋找人類 who sought to find the truths
所有故事的共同真相 common to all the stories of humankind.
因此，一年一兩次 To this end，once or twice a year,
她冒險去了陌生的地方 she ventured to strange lands.
去中國，南海 To China，the South Seas,
以及沿岸諸國在內地區的永恆的城市... and the timeless cities of the Levant...
在那裡她的同類聚集在一起講故事 where her kind gathered to tell stories about stories.
往這邊 This way.
不好意思 這邊請，女士 Excuse me. This way，lady.
你幹什麼呢？你能放手嗎，拜託？ What are you doing? Can you let go，please?
伊斯坦布爾的奧秘 The mysteries of Istanbul.
艾麗西亞! Alithea!
歡迎! Welcome!
終於大駕光臨 啊! 岡漢！ Welcome at last! Aw. Gunhan!
我親愛的朋友 My dear friend.
哦，太棒了！對不起 Oh，how wonderful! I'm sorry.
這是阿米娜 阿米娜 This is Amina. Amina.
來自英國文化協會 From the British Council.
機場的那個傢伙粗暴地搬運我的行李 That fellow at the airport manhandling my luggage,
你看見了嗎? did you see him?
什麼傢伙? What fellow?
你們一出現他就跑了 He scuttled off when you arrived.
矮矮的，穿羊皮大衣，粉紅色的領子 Small，sheepskin jacket，pink collar.
有意思 Interesting.
他摸起來很熱 He was hot to touch.
有麝香氣味的 Musky.
也許他是個精靈 Perhaps he was a djinn.
更有可能是非法計程車司機 An illegal taxi driver，more likely.
噴了太多古龍水 Wearing too much cologne.
所以，教授 So，Professor,
你是說你相信精靈的存在？ you saying you believe in djinn?
我相信有些人需要相信他們 I believe there are those who need to believe in them.
包括我嗎? Including me?
精靈，鬼魂 Djinn，ghosts,
外星人，只要有幫助就行 aliens，whatever helps.
酒店為您安排了一個可愛的驚喜 The hotel's arranged a lovely surprise for you.
這是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的房間 It's the Agatha Christie room.
在這個房間裡 In this room,
她寫了《東方快車謀殺案》 she wrote Murder on the Orient Express.
所以，你怎麼解釋 So，how would you explain
大雷雨的力量 the power of a thunderstorm
如果你沒有辦法 if you don't have the means
對氣象數據進行測量和建模？ to measure and model meteorological data?
你怎麼解釋季節呢？ How can you explain the seasons?
從秋天到冬天，再到春天和夏天 Autumn through winter to spring and summer,
如果你不知道地球 if you don't know that the Earth
繞著太陽旋轉，而地球傾斜在一個軸上？ orbits the Sun while tilted on an axis?
一切都是個謎 Everything was mystery.
季節、海嘯、微生物疾病... The seasons，tsunamis，microbial disease...
除了述諸於故事，我們還能做什麼呢？ What else could we do but resort to stories?
正如賓尼博士鼓勵我們理解的那樣 As Dr. Binnie has encouraged us to understand,
故事曾經是讓我們 stories were once the only way
困惑的存在變得連貫的唯一途徑 to make our bewildering existence coherent.
那是完全正確的 That's exactly right.
我們為所有奇跡和災難 We gave name to the unknown forces
背後的未知力量命名 behind all wonder and catastrophe,
藉著告訴彼此... by telling each other...
藉著給彼此講故事 By telling each other stories.
讓我來給你展示 Let me show you.
我們講述了在所有文化、所有神話中 We told tales of specific，powerful，relatable gods
出現過的特定的、強大的、相關的神的故事 ever present in all cultures，in all mythologies,
從希臘人，到羅馬人，再到北歐人 from the Greeks，to the Romans，to the Norse,
等等，等等 and so on，and so on.
我們熟悉的宙斯、波塞冬、雅典娜的後裔 The familiar descendant of Zeus，Poseidon，Athena,
索爾，整個幫派 Thor，the whole gang,
即使在今天也能找到表達方式 find expression even today.
這些是他們的遺跡 These are their vestiges.
問題仍然是，他們的目的是什麼？ The question remains，what is their purpose?
我們現在對他們有什麼要求？ What do we require of them now?
這裡面有神話，也有科學 There is mythos，and there is science.
噢! 抱歉 Oh. Sorry.
神話是我們當時所知道的 Mythology is what we knew back then.
科學是我們到目前為止所知道的 Science is what we know so far.
遲早 Sooner or later,
我們的創世故事 our creation stories are replaced
被科學的敘述所取代 by the narratives of science.
艱苦的科學 Painstaking science.
而所有的神靈和怪物 And all gods and monsters
比他們最初的目的活得更長久 outlive their original purpose
並被簡化為隱喻 and are reduced to metaphor.
胡扯! Rubbish!
艾麗西亞! Alithea!
艾麗西亞 Alithea.
發生了什麼事？ What happened?
我不知道 她就這麼摔倒了 I don't know. She just fell.
她就這麼摔倒了 She just fell.
天啊! Gosh.
你還好嗎? Are you okay?
你是不是應該去看醫生？ Shouldn't you see a doctor?
為什麼？當我感覺這麼好的時候？ Why? When I feel so well?
不好意思，艾麗西亞 你確定嗎? Forgive me，Alithea. Are you sure?
除了平常的疼痛外 Apart from the usual aches and pains,
沒有什麼不順遂的事 there is nothing untoward.
沒有理由大驚小怪 There's no reason to make a fuss.
所以，剛才發生了什麼事？ So，what happened back there?
最近，我的想像力戰勝了我 Lately，my imagination's been getting the better of me.
伏擊了我 Ambushing me.
我認為這是一個警告 I think it's a warning.
關於什麼？About what?
別太自滿 Not to be complacent.
讓我保持警覺 To keep on my toes.
它時不時地粗魯地表現出來 It manifests rudely from time to time.
我試著不抗拒它 I try not to fight it off.
它控制了一下，然後就消失了 It takes charge for a moment，and then it steps back.
什麼消失了? What steps back?
哦，岡漢，這太荒謬了 別在意它了 Oh，Gunhan，it's irrational. Pay it no mind.
你的行為舉止像個孩子 你知道嗎？ You are behaving like a child. Do you know that?
你知道，我其實還是個孩子 You know，I am actually a child.
如果這就是命運，我們能逃避它嗎? If there is fate，can we escape it?
誰能說得準呢？ Who can say?
但我告訴你 But I tell you this,
在伊斯坦堡的大巴扎 in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul,
有62條街道和4,000家商店 there are 62 streets and 4,000 shops.
而在其中一家商店裡，有三個房間 And in one of those shops，there are three rooms.
在這些房間中最小的一間裡 In the smallest of those rooms,
有一堆東西沒有分類 there was a pile of things unsorted,
有舊的也有新的 old and new.
從那堆東西的底部 From the bottom of that pile,
我選了一件紀念品 I chose a memento.
你知道這是什麼嗎? Do you know what this is?
我不確定，但可能是土耳其傳統瓶飾 I'm not sure，but it could be Cesm-i Bulbul,
一個"夜鶯之眼" a "Nightingale's Eye."
大約在1845年，印基爾科伊有這樣的玻璃製造商 Around 1845，there were these glassmakers in Incirkoy.
他們以這種螺旋狀的藍白色圖案而聞名 They were famous for this spiral blue-white pattern.
哦，別這樣 這是我送給你的禮物 Oh，please. It's a gift from me.
別選擇一些被遺棄的東西 Choose something less forlorn.
而且，呃，如果這是土耳其傳統瓶飾 And，uh，if this is Cesm-i Bulbul,
呃，有什麼方法可以鑑定它嗎？ uh，is there a way of authenticating it?
噢，他們說如果它是真的 Well，they say that if it is genuine,
有時你可以看到 sometimes you can see specks of blood
上面會留著玻璃吹製工人肺裡的血跡點 from the lungs of the glassblowers.
但這更像是現代的仿製品 But this is more likely a recent imitation.
它已經被火燒毀了 選其他的吧! It's been damaged by fire. Pick something else.
不用了，謝謝你，岡漢 No，thank you，Gunhan.
我喜歡它 I like it.
無論它是什麼，我相信它都有一個有趣的故事 Whatever it is，I'm sure it has an interesting story.
哈囉? Hello?
早上好，賓尼博士 Good morning，Dr. Binnie.
早上好 這是客房服務 Good morning. This is room service.
是的 您的雞蛋要幾分熟？ Yes. How do you like your eggs?
呃，鬆軟的，麻煩你 Er，runny，please.
那加吐司呢？是的，但沒有麵包皮 And with toast? Yes，but no crusts.
兩顆蛋嗎? 一顆就好 Two eggs? Just one.
好的，謝謝 謝謝 Okay，thank you. Thank you.
我要閉上眼睛並數到三 I'm going to close my eyes and count to three,
之後我將不勝感激 after which I would be grateful
如果你能離開 if you would be gone.
一 One,
二 two,
三 three.
四 Four,
五 five,
六 six,
七，八 seven，eight,
九，十 nine，ten.
我想你不會說英語吧？ I don't suppose you speak English?
德語? Deutsch?
西班牙語? Espanol?
希臘語? Ellinika?
愛因斯坦 Einstein.
電視 Television.
發射臺 Transmitters.
我是一個謙虛的精靈 I am a djinn of modest power,
但我開始理解這些傳輸方式 but I begin to understand these transmissions.
噢! Oh!
你已經學會了說我的語言 You've learned to speak my language.
這種英語是直截了當的 This English is straightforward.
我發現，它的規則學得很快 Its rules quickly learn，I find.
不，不，不 Nein，nein，nein.
你自己想要這個小艾伯特嗎？ Would you like this little Albert for yourself?
不，不，不 No，no，no.
這對他來說肯定不是好事 把他放回去 That can't be good for him. Put him back.
我可以開朗他 怎麼做? I could expand him. How?
我們可以和他談談 We could speak with him.
這怎麼可能？不，把他放回去 How is this possible? No，put him back.
那是你的願望嗎？這是不可能的 Is that your wish? This is not possible.
不 這是你的責任 No. It's your obligation.
所以，你會許什麼願呢？ So，what will you wish for?
你內心的願望是什麼？ What is your heart's desire?
現在，讓我們，呃，不要操之過急 Now，let's，uh，not get ahead of ourselves.
我得慢慢來 I need to take this slow.
我有世界上所有的時間 I have all the time in the world.
跟我說說你自己吧! Tell me about yourself.
我叫艾麗西亞·賓尼 My name is Alithea Binnie.
我在土耳其參加一個會議 I am in Turkey for a conference.
一天後我就會回到我的祖國 And I return to my homeland in a day's time.
而且? Also?
而且，我有一件事要坦白 Also，I have a confession to make.
一件我從未告訴過任何人的事 Something I've never told anybody.
太棒了 Excellent.
當我小的時候，有一個男孩 When I was young，there was a boy.
你的初戀情人？ Your first lover?
不，不，不 他不是血肉之軀 No，no，no. He was not of flesh and blood.
一個精靈? A djinn?
不是 No.
那時，我發現自己在一所女子學校 At that time，I found myself in a school for girls.
一群張口結舌的女孩 Gaggles of girls.
我是...噢，我天生就是個孤獨的人 I was...Well，I am a solitary creature by nature.
而這個男孩，恩佐 And this boy，Enzo,
他從一片空虛中向我走來 he came to me，out of an emptiness.
出於想像的需要 Out of a need to imagine.
他用一種 He told me stories in a language
只有我們兩個人說的語言給我講故事 that only we two spoke.
當我頭疼的時候他總是消失 And he always disappeared when I had a headache,
但他從未遠離過 but he was never far away
當我因為哮喘不能動彈的時候 when I couldn't move for asthma.
他就像這個小艾伯特 He was like this little Albert
你不會讓我給你吧？ you would not let me give you?
一種散發？An emanation?
只是缺席的一種流露 Only an emanation of an absence.
我害怕他會離開，所以我把他寫了下來 I feared he would leave，and so I wrote him down.
而且我寫滿了這本日記，充斥著事實 And I filled this journal，bulging with facts.
但我試圖插入的現實主義越多 But the more realism I tried to insert,
我越是懷疑 the more I began to doubt,
然後，呃，一切都開始讓人覺得很傻了 and，uh，it all began to feel silly.
我覺得自己很傻 I felt silly.
所以，過了一段時間後 So，after a time,
我在學校的爐子裡把它全燒了 I burned it all in the school furnace.
而在那之後，他就完全消失了 And after that，he disappeared altogether.
然而，我在這裡 And yet，I am here.
有違常理，是的 Contrary to reason，yes.
我在這裡，而且我們有工作要做 I am here，and we have work to do.
你能晚點再來嗎，拜託？ Can you come back later，please?
這是客房服務，賓尼博士 It's room service，Dr. Binnie.
我給你準備好早餐了 I have your breakfast.
請稍等！Just a minute!
必須關上門 Must close door.
早上好 Good morning.
你想把它放在哪裡，賓尼博士？ Where would you like it，Dr. Binnie?
謝謝 哦，讓我來 Thank you. Oh，I can take it.
拜託，讓我來 不，不，我能應付得來 Please，allow me. No. No，I can manage it.
很好，賓尼博士 我希望你好好休息 Jolly good，Dr. Binnie. I hope you are well rested.
哦，那看起來很好吃 是的，我是 Oh，that looks delicious. Yes，I am.
在這個美好的日子裡你打算做什麼？ What do you plan to do on this fine day?
呃，我不確定 我是隨興的 Uh，I'm not sure. I'm improvising.
噢，我想告知你去看一個漂亮的美術館... Well，I'd like to show you a beautiful art gallery...
真是太好了 謝謝 That's so kind. Thank you.
今天下午，當你有機會的時候 This afternoon，when you get a chance.
也許改天吧! 一定會很棒的 Maybe another time. It will be great.
謝謝 祝你有美好的一天 Thank you. Have a beautiful day.
好的 太好了 好好享受吧! Okay. Jolly good. Enjoy.
謝謝! Thank you!
變更適當的尺寸了，我明白了 A more convenient size，I see.
我會盡我所能融入其中 I do what I can to fit in.
請用 Please.
我本不需要點早餐的 I needn't have ordered breakfast.
這是南艾·諾霍迪奇 鷹嘴豆，丁香，開心果 It's nan-e nokhodchi. Chickpeas，cloves，pistachio.
它會在你嘴裡融化 It will melt in your mouth.
我可以問你一件事嗎? May I ask you something?
什麼都行 Anything.
你是怎麼鑽進我的瓶子裡的? How come you found your way into my bottle?
啊，說來話長 Ah，it's quite a story.
那是我第三次被監禁 That was my third incarceration.
你被困在瓶子裡三次了？ You've been trapped in a bottle three times?
我也許是個精靈，但我也是個傻瓜 I may be a djinn，but I'm also a fool
對女人的談話太熱衷了 with too great a fondness for the conversation of women.
我以後需要更加小心 I need to be more careful in the future.
一開始你是怎麼被抓到的？ How were you caught in the first place?
因為慾望 By desire.
還有別的辦法嗎？ How else?
她是誰? Who was she?
示巴 Sheba.
示巴女王? The Queen of Sheba?
她是我的親人 She was my kin.
她是個精靈？ She was a djinn?
她的母親是個精靈 Her mother was a djinn.
這有可能嗎？ Is that possible?
有法律允許 There are laws that allow
精靈和凡人的結合 the union of djinn and mortals,
但他們不能生出不朽的後代 but they cannot produce an immortal scion
就像一頭驢和一匹馬 the way a donkey and a horse
只能生出一頭無籽騾子 can only produce a seedless mule.
所以，她長得什麼樣？ So，what did she look like?
除了她腿上濃密的黑髮之外 Other than a thick glade of black hair on her legs,
她看上去和其他人沒什麼兩樣 she looked like any other human being,
除了，當然，她是示巴 except，of course，she was Sheba.
所有人都說，她長得很漂亮 By all accounts，she was very beautiful.
她並不漂亮 她本身就是美 She was not beautiful. She was beauty itself.
我到哪都來去自如 I was in every way free.
我會進進出出她的睡房 I would come in and out of her sleeping chamber.
示巴...Sheba...
我和她的女奴一樣瞭解 I knew as well as any of her female slaves
那些讓她幸福得發抖的撫摸 the touches that made her shiver with bliss.
我從來沒有這麼想要一個人 Never have I wanted a creature so.
而她想要你作為回報嗎? And she desired you in return?
我是她的玩物 她的紅顏知己 I was her plaything. Her confidante.
要不是所羅門，我可能會變得更厲害 I might have become more，but for Solomon.
所羅門王嗎? King Solomon?
祝福他的記憶 Blessed be his memory.
他穿越沙漠來追求她 He came from across the deserts to woo her.
她不是去找他嗎? Didn't she go to him?
不 從來沒有 No. Never.
但聖經上有寫著 But it's in all the holy books.
所有的故事和畫 All the stories and the paintings.
而且韓德爾為此創作了音樂 And Handel wrote music about it.
女士，我當時在場 Madam，I was there.
所羅門來到她面前 Solomon came to her.
他從音樂開始 He began with music.
我盡我所能去勸阻她 I did all that I could to dissuade her.
但當她使用 But when she used
賈巴沙蜜蜂的香味蠟 the scented wax of the Jabassa Bee
去掉她腿上的毛髮 to remove the hair from her legs,
我知道我迷失了 I knew that I was lost.
但我，像個傻瓜一樣，繼續告訴她 But I，like a fool, went on telling her
她的身體豐潤又可愛 that her body was rich and lovely,
但她的思想是更豐富、更可愛 but her mind was richer and lovelier,
而且更持久的 and more durable.
而她同意我說的一切 And she agreed with all that I said,
並掉下了一滴熱淚 and dropped a hot tear.
她開始給他佈置任務，這似乎是不可能的 She began to set him tasks, which seemed impossible,
來找到一根特殊的紅色絲線 to find a particular thread of red silk
在一千個房間的宮殿裡 in the palace of a thousand rooms,
來猜出她母親精靈的秘密名字 to guess the secret name of her mother djinn,
來告訴她女人最想要的是什麼 to tell her what women most desire.
那似乎是不可能的 That does seem impossible.
對他來說不是 Not for him.
他能和大地上的野獸說話 He could speak to the beasts of the earth,
和微妙之火幻化的精靈說話 and to the djinn made of subtle fire.
他找到螞蟻來尋找絲線 He found ants to discover the thread of silk,
並找到了一隻妖精來低語母親的名字 and an ifrit to whisper the mother's name.
然後他看著她的眼睛 Then he looked into her eyes
並且告訴她女人最渴望的是什麼 and told her what women most desire.
她很驚訝 She was astonished,
並告訴他他是對的 and told him he was right.
所以她給了他他最渴望的東西 And so she granted him what he most desired,
那就是娶她並與她同床共枕 which was to wed her and be taken to her bed.
他是一個偉大的魔術師... He was a great magician...
並把我關進了黃銅瓶 and imprisoned me
用一句權力的話 with a word of power into a brass bottle.
她沒有為我求情 She made no plea for me.
我對她來說什麼都不是 I was nothing to her.
只是瓶子裡的一口氣 A breath in a bottle.
就這樣，我被扔進了紅海 And so，I was cast into the Red Sea
並在2,500年裡備受煎熬 and languished for 2,500 years.
除了睡覺 Apart from sleep,
一個人在瓶子裡2,500年能做什麼? what does one do in a bottle for 2,500 years?
精靈不睡覺 Djinn don't sleep.
所以，你怎麼打發時間? So，how do you manage then?
噢，在最初的100年裡，我對我的命運感到憤怒 Well，for the first 100 years, I rage against my fate.
我向博施科洛祈禱釋放我 I pray to Boschkolo for my release,
而當這不起作用時 and when that does not work,
我向我認識的神祈禱 I pray to any god I know,
然後向我不認識的神祈禱 and then to any god I may not know.
而且當，仍然，我沒有找到答案的時候 And when，still, I find no answers,
我把時間花在做白日夢 I spend my time in waking dreams
重溫我過去的所有故事 revisiting all the stories of my life.
而當我筋疲力盡這很多，很多次時 And when I have exhausted this many，many times,
我就會回到我的祈禱和憤怒中 I return to my prayer and my rage.
然後，最後 And then，finally,
我對自己開了個玩笑 I play a trick on myself.
我祈禱留在瓶子裡 I pray to remain in the bottle.
我祈求博斯科洛讓我永遠待在瓶子裡 I beseech Boschkolo to keep me always in the bottle.
而那有用嗎? And does that work?
渴望一無所有? To yearn for nothing?
假裝什麼都不想要 To pretend to want nothing more
只想待在瓶子裡? than to be contained in a bottle?
不 No.
對於精靈來說，這是我們離死亡最近的一次 For a djinn，it is the closest we ever come to death.
你知道她問題的答案嗎？ Do you know the answer to her question?
女人最想要的是什麼? What women most desire?
是的 Yeah.
你不知道嗎? Do you not know?
如果你不知道，我也不能告訴你 If you do not know, I cannot tell you.
噢，當然，我們想要的東西不都是一樣的 Well，surely，we don't all want the same thing.
女士，你的渴望我一點也不清楚 Madam，your yearnings are not at all clear to me.
我...我正處在一個擁有一切所需的人生階段 I...I'm at a point in my life where I have all I need.
我敢說我很滿意，而且很感激 I dare say I'm content, and gratefully so.
告訴我 Tell me.
你是一位妻子？還是寡婦？ Are you a wife? A widow?
嗯...也許是個母親？ Um...A mother，perhaps?
我沒有孩子，沒有兄弟姐妹，沒有父母 I have no children, no siblings，no parents.
我曾經有一個丈夫 I did once have a husband.
啊! Ah.
那這位丈夫的氣色如何呢？ And what was the complexion of this husband?
他的氣色嗎? His complexion?
一開始，意氣風發 In the beginning, it was glowing.
而最後呢? And in the ending?
這算不上什麼故事 It's not much of a story.
但這是一個故事 這是你的故事 But it is a story. It is your story,
而且瞭解那些控制你的人 and it is always wise
總是明智的 to understand those who have a hold on you.
拜託 Please.
噢，好吧，嗯... Well，okay，um...
我們從年輕的時候就認識了 We'd known each other since our youth.
我們，呃，很早就結婚了 We，uh，married early.
一開始，我們 In the beginning, we took pleasure
喜歡彼此的想法和身體 in each other's minds and bodies.
嗯...Um...
我們安逸地度過了這幾年 We passed the years comfortably,
而當它發生的時候 and then as it happens,
一切都蒸發了 it all evaporated,
而，呃...而我們就成了 and，uh...and we became
越少 less.
而他在哪裡？ And where is he?
他跟艾米琳·波特在哈克尼 He's in Hackney, with Emmeline Porter.
嗯! Mmm.
他告訴說我... He told me I...
我沒有讀懂感情的能力 I was incapable of reading feelings.
我無法讀懂他的感受 I was incapable of reading his feelings.
會有一個解決方案的 Gonna have a resolution.
這真令人興奮! This is exciting!
這真令人興奮! 不，不是的 It is exciting! No，it's not.
讓我猜一猜 沒有人死在裡面 Let me guess. No one dies in it.
不! No!
我大腦連接的方式是...是... The way my brain is wired is...is the...
我力量的源泉 the source both of my power
以及，呃，還有我的孤獨 and，uh，and my solitude.
我想這就是我喜歡故事的原因 I suspect that's why I like stories.
我透過故事找到感覺 I find feelings through stories.
也許你可以祈求他能回來 Perhaps you could wish for him back.
哦，不，不，不 不，不，不 Oh，no，no，no. No，no，no.
不 No.
我...我想，嗯! I...I thought，um,
我可能會為失去和背叛而悲傷，但是，呃! I might grieve a loss and betrayal，but，uh,
不，事實上，我自由了 no，in fact，I was free.
我就像一個囚犯 I was like a prisoner
從地牢裡出來，走到陽光下 emerging from a dungeon into the sunlight.
我擴展到了我自己的生活空間 I expanded into the space of my own life.
不，我不能要求更多了 No，I could not wish for more.
你是個聰明又謹慎的女人，艾麗西亞 You are a wise and cautious woman，Alithea.
但我們都有慾望 But we all have desires,
即使他們對我們隱藏著 even if they remain hidden from us.
那是有可能的 That's as maybe.
但我也是一個敘事學家 But I am also a narratologist,
而這將是一個問題 and that is going to be a problem.
這將是一個非常大的問題 It's going to be a very big problem.
你看，我知道所有 See，I know all the stories there are
關於魔術師精靈的故事 about trickster djinn,
以及他們為了自己的目的 and the ways in which they manipulate wishing
而操縱自己的方式 to their own ends.
我不是他們中的一員 I am not one of them.
我敬畏上帝而且我是光榮的 I am god-fearing and honorable,
而且只有在這裡才能滿足你內心的渴望 and only here to grant your heart's desire.
噢，即使這是真的 Well，even if that's true,
你怎麼能依靠那些被召喚來許願的人呢? how can you rely on those called upon to wish?
你怎麼知道你能信任我呢? How do you know you can rely on me?
噢，我希望如此 Well，I hope so.
對你來說，我當然希望如此 With you，I certainly hope so.
那有一個...There's a...
有趣的小故事 我是說，你可能知道 funny little story. I mean，you probably know it.
三個朋友乘坐一艘小船在海上迷失了 Three friends lost at sea in a tiny boat.
他們拉起一條神奇的魚 They pull up a magic fish,
牠能滿足他們每個人的一個願望 who grants each of them one wish.
第一個說 The first one,
"我希望我和我的妻子待在家裡" "I wish I were at home with my wife."
他就消失了 He vanishes.
第二個說，"我希望我" The second one, "I wish I were playing"
"陪我的孩子們在田野裡遊玩" "in the fields with my children."
他也消失了 Off he goes.
而第三個說，"我想念我的朋友..." And the third one, "I miss my friends..."
"我希望他們在這裡" "I wish they were here."
你對了 You've got it.
每個許願故事都是一個警世故事 There's no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale.
沒有一個是美滿的結局 None end happily.
即使是那些本該是笑話的 Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes.
但你和我是這個故事的作者 But you and I are the authors of this story,
而且我們可以避開所有陷阱 and we can avoid all traps.
噢，如果我根本沒有許願呢？ Well，what if I made no wish at all?
您說什麼？Pardon?
如果我沒有許願呢？ What if I made no wish?
那將是一個... That would be an...
那將是 That would be
災難性的！catastrophic!
好吧! All right.
我要告訴你我第二次被關的事 I need to tell you about my next incarceration.
我洗耳恭聽 I'm all ears.
我永遠也不知道 I will never know
我的瓶子是怎麼從紅海底出來的... how my bottle came from the bottom of the Red Sea...
去君士坦丁堡的一座宮殿 to a palace in Constantinople.
但我猜想這與奧斯曼帝國的 But I fancy somehow it involved
一名戰士被殺有關 the killing of an Ottoman warrior.
一個帝國的滅亡 The fall of an empire.
和一個戀愛中的女孩 And a girl in love.
梅爾哈巴 Merhaba.
古爾登像奴隸一樣 Gulten lived as a slave
在後宮的妃子院子裡 in the courtyard of the concubines
在薩拉格里奧 in the seraglio.
當我出現在她面前時... When I appeared to her...
她暈倒了 she fainted.
而我費了很大的勁才把她叫醒 And I had great trouble rousing her.
我明確表示我對她並無惡意 I made it clear that I meant her no harm,
因為我被監禁在這瓶子 for I was condemned to the bottle.
直到你實現你的三個願望 Until you got your three wishes.
直到她拿到了她的三個願望 Until she got hers.
拜託 好吧! Please. Okay.
現在，那個可憐的女孩告訴我 Now，the poor girl told me
她心煩意亂地愛上了一個漂亮的男人... she was distractedly in love with a beautiful man...
而她希望立刻 and she wished immediately
得到他的賞識 to find favor in his eyes.
剛好 As it happens,
她最想要的就是華麗的穆斯塔法 the one she most desired was the splendid Mustafa.
穆斯塔法王子 Prince Mustafa.
偉大的蘇萊曼的長子 Eldest son of Suleiman the Magnificent,
而且很可能會繼承他強大的王位 and likely heir to his mighty throne.
如果我知道接下來會發生什麼 Had I known what was to come,
我就會冒著惹怒伊布利斯的危險 I would've risked the furies of Iblis
來強烈地分散她對她願望的注意力 to vehemently distract her from her wish.
但不假思索 But without thinking,
就拿起我的瓶子變出油來 I took my bottle and conjured oils
為她準備 to prepare her.
魔法之油 Oils of enchantment
曾經只有示巴使用過 once used only by Sheba.
我告誡她把瓶子藏起來 I cautioned her to hide the bottle
以免它的法力落入他人之手 lest its powers fall into other hands.
我去找穆斯塔法 I went to Mustafa.
古爾登 Gulten.
我低聲說出了她的名字 I whispered her name.
他派人去找她 He sent for her.
這太容易了 It was so easy.
身為精靈，我對人類的 As a djinn, I am endlessly curious
生活方式充滿好奇 about the ways of humans.
所以，在我的閒暇之餘 So，in my spare time,
我開始在宮殿裡閒逛，尋找它的奧祕 I took to wandering the palace in search of its intrigues.
而在那裡，在太監中間 And there，among the eunuchs,
王妃和妃子們 the consorts, and the concubines,
我第一次看見霍萊姆 I first saw Hurrem.
微笑的那位 The Laughing One.
她，也是，一個奴隸 She，too，was a slave
從他們中間崛起 who had risen through the center of them all
成為蘇丹的寵兒 to become the Sultan's favorite.
智者蘇萊曼眼中只有她 Suleiman the Wise saw none but her.
而她試圖保護他的王位 And she sought to protect his throne
讓自己的兒子取代他心愛的穆斯塔法 in favor of her own sons over his beloved Mustafa.
而為此，她派了許多 And to this end, she had the prince watched
窺探的眼睛盯著王子 by many probing eyes.
當我看到霍萊姆 When I saw how Hurrem
如何成功地完成了她的傑作時 made a masterpiece of her manipulations,
我擔心我的古爾登可能會被困在這張網裡 I worried that my Gulten might be caught in this web.
我試著警告她要小心 I tried to warn her to be careful.
但她已經決定了她的第二個願望 But she had already decided on her second wish.
真是一個錯誤 Such a mistake.
因為此時此刻 Because at this moment,
蘇萊曼，願上帝保佑他的名字 Suleiman，blessed be his name,
正在被削弱 is being undermined.
他的戰士們認為他正在變得軟弱 His warriors believe he is going soft,
對他的詩歌更感興趣 more interested in his poetry
而不是強勢統治 than ruling with a strong hand.
霍萊姆助長了謠言 Hurrem fuels the rumors
軍隊想要奪取他的王位 that the military want to take his throne
而用穆斯塔法取代他 and replace him with Mustafa.
王子已成為一枚棋子 The prince has become a pawn
在無休無止的權力遊戲中 in the ceaseless game of power.
偉大的蘇萊曼 Suleiman the Magnificent,
征服者蘇萊曼 Suleiman the Conqueror,
帝國的守護神和保護者 patron and protector of empires,
開國者蘇萊曼 Suleiman the Father,
面臨著一個選擇 was left with a choice
他知道會讓他心碎的選擇 that he knows will break his heart.
古爾登，與此同時，看不出有什麼理由 Gulten，meantime，saw no reason
為什麼她不能露面 why she should remain unseen.
鑒於她懷的是下一任蘇丹的兒子 Given she was carrying the son of the next Sultan.
不顧我所有的警告 Despite all my warnings,
她炫耀著自己剛剛隆起的胸部和腹部 she parades her newly swollen breasts and belly.
而耳語很快傳遍了整個宮廷 And the whispers soon spread throughout the seraglio.
可怕的陰謀進展得太快了 The terrible plottings move all too quickly.
穆斯塔法王子天真地 Prince Mustafa comes innocently
來到他父親面前 into the presence of his father,
來向他保證自己的忠誠 to reassure him of his loyalty.
而等著他的是寂靜 And the mutes are waiting for him.
他呼喊他的禁衛軍士兵 He cried out to his Janissaries,
愛戴他的 who loved him,
但他的聲音被壓碎了而且他的呼吸 but his voice was crushed and his breath stopped
被他父親弓上的琴絃打斷了 by the string of his father's bow.
古爾登! Gulten!
"許個願吧!" "Make a wish!"
"救救你自己吧，古爾登! " "Save yourself，Gulten!"
只要說幾句話而她就可以安全地 Just a few words and she could have been free
生下她的孩子了 to bear her child in safety,
而我也可以逃到精靈的王國去了 and I to spirit away at last to the Realm of Djinn.
但她跑到刺客手裡了 But she ran into the hands of the assassins.
我正打算用武力拿下他們 I was about to take them by force,
卻被伊布利斯的一個部下擋住了 when I was blocked by a follower of Iblis.
古爾登! Gulten!
她沒有許願來解救她自己 She made no wish to save herself.
沒有許下拯救我們倆的願望 No wish was made to save us both.
所以，我就在那裡 So，there I was,
或者我不在那裡，你可能會說 or there I was not, might you say,
幾乎被釋放並來到這個世界 almost emancipated and tethered to this world
因為第三個未實現的願望 by a third wish unperformed.
但你知道，對吧! But you realize，don't you,
你剛剛給我講了一個女人 that you've just told me the story of a woman who was doomed
因為許願而註定要死的故事？ as a consequence of the wishes she made?
是的，但她沒能完成願望 Yes，but her failure to complete the wishes
也注定了我的命運 also doomed me.
沒人能完成這個願望嗎? Could nobody else complete the wish?
那是我的希望 That was my hope.
而那你就終於自由了嗎? And that would finally liberate you?
那是我唯一的希望 That was my only hope.
但你被隱形了 But you were rendered invisible.
像一個幽靈 Like a ghost.
在看不見的地方徘徊 Wandering unseen.
還有你的瓶子 And your bottle,
藏在鬆動的石板下 hidden under the loosened stone
只有死去的古爾登才知道 known only to the dead Gulten.
是的，這是一個尷尬的處境 Yes，it was a predicament.
我試圖引起某人的注意 I tried to attract the attention of someone,
任何能幫助我的人 anyone that could help me.
我的星星，我多麼努力 My stars，how I tried.
我跟隨著他們的氣味，他們的每一步 I followed their scent, their every step.
心甘情願，懇求，尖叫 Willing，pleading，screaming.
任何能把他們吸引到我身邊的東西 Anything to draw them to me.
而我這樣淒慘地做了100年 And I do this piteously for 100 years,
而每一次失敗，我的意志就開始消退 and with every failure, my will begins to fade.
而然後在1620年 And then in 1620,
一個手持劍的男孩帶來了希望 hope comes in the form of a boy with a sword.
穆拉德! 穆拉德! Murad! Murad!
穆拉德! Murad!
不知怎的，這個男孩感覺到了我 By some means, this boy senses me.
我能把他引到石頭那裡 I'm able to draw him to the stone.
易卜拉辛! Ibrahim!
過來 Gel.
穆拉德! Murad!
易卜拉辛! Ibrahim!
而就在我要被送到 And just as I am about to be delivered
他們手裡的時候 into their hands,
他們的母親找到了他們 their mother finds them.
她叫科瑟姆 She is Kosem,
蘇丹，艾哈邁德一世的遺孀 a widow of the Sultan, Ahmed the First.
而男孩們是王位的下一任繼承人 And the boys are next in line for the throne.
當我看到他腿上的毛髮時 When I see the hair on his legs,
我就知道穆拉德的血統中 I know that somewhere in Murad's bloodline
蘊藏著精靈的力量 pulses the power of a djinn.
我到處跟著他 I follow him everywhere,
決心把他拉回石頭那裡 determined to draw him back to the stone.
但在11歲時，他登上了王位 But at the age of 11, he ascends the throne
而成為蘇丹穆拉德四世 and becomes Sultan Murad the Fourth.
而他又陷入了慣常的陰謀詭計 And caught up by the usual intrigues,
他跟我就更疏遠了 he is even more lost to me.
20歲時，他率領他的軍隊參戰 At 20，he leads his armies to war.
他與他的部下並肩作戰 He battles alongside his men
在高加索和美索不達米亞 in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.
關於他的魯莽都有很多故事 Stories are told of his recklessness,
甚至是他自己的生活 even with his own life.
我絕望到再也不想見到他 I despair of ever seeing him again.
希望是個怪物，艾麗西亞，而我是它的玩物 Hope is a monster，Alithea, and I am its plaything.
所以他死了嗎? So he died?
不是在戰場上 Not in battle.
回到伊斯坦堡 Back in Istanbul,
科瑟姆需要保護王位 Kosem needs to protect the throne.
她需要保護易卜拉辛 She needs to protect Ibrahim.
那個小弟弟? 是的 The little brother? Yes.
他是奧斯曼帝國的最後一位 He is last of the Ottoman line.
他必須生男孩 He has to produce male children.
所以，科瑟姆將他鎖在一個完全用貂皮做襯裡的籠子裡 So，Kosem locks him in a cage lined entirely with sable.
真是個監獄 Quite the prison.
而且一個他永遠不想離開的地方 And one he will never want to leave.
這讓他沉溺於王室之中 It debauches him royally.
他相信肉體越豐滿 He believes the greater the expanse of flesh,
快感就越強烈 the more intense the pleasure.
所以，科瑟姆尋找性感而巨大的美女 So，Kosem seeks out beauties voluptuous and immense,
並把她們帶到他的沙發上 and brings them to his couch.
我的命運被這個戀物癖掌控 My fate turns specifically on this fetish.
怎會這樣? How's that?
你終究會明白的 You'll see.
穆拉德回來了 Murad is back.
而雖然他以征服者的身份歸來 And though he returns a conqueror,
他不能脫下他的鮮血長袍 he cannot shed his robes of blood.
戰爭確實腐蝕了他的靈魂 War had truly rotted his soul.
我一直等到他一個人的時候 I wait until he is alone.
我決心把他拉回石頭那裡 I am determined to draw him back to the stone.
我不想打斷你，但我確實有個問題 I don't want to interrupt, but I do have a question.
你會在意這樣的人 Did it matter to you what kind of wish
許什麼樣的願嗎? such a man might make?
一個如此貪得無厭的人 One so insatiable.
不會 No.
即使它是極其邪惡的也不會？ Not even if it were profoundly evil?
如果那意味著我的自由就不會 Not if it meant my freedom.
事實是他在想別的事 The truth is he has other things on his mind.
他相信他是無敵的 He believes he is invincible,
而要想無限期地統治，他必須擺脫所有對手 and to rule indefinitely, he must be rid of all rivals.
易卜拉辛 Ibrahim.
科瑟姆必須阻止他 Kosem needs to stop him.
無論如何，她需要用其他的滿足 Somehow，she needed to distract him
來分散他對殺戮慾望的注意力 from his bloodlust with other gratifications.
首先，她設法讓他一直處於宿醉之中 First，she arranges for him to be perpetually drunk.
而然後她做了件非常精明的事 And then she tries something very shrewd.
你可能會喜歡的東西 Something that you might enjoy.
她派人去找 She sends to find,
從帝國的各個角落 from all corners of the empire,
找最會講故事的人 the best storytellers.
那些沒有說服力的人要嘛在恐懼中逃跑 Those who are not persuasive
要嘛落入他的不耐煩之中 flee in fear or fall to his impatience.
只有一個人 There is only one
有能力迷惑他 who has the ability to enchant him.
用故事來撫慰 To soothe with stories,
讓他被故事困住 to hold him hostage to their unfolding.
這是他唯一的朋友 This is his only friend.
而那種友誼變成了愛 And that friendship turns to love.
既然我沒別的事可做 Since there is nothing else for me to do,
我感激地聽著 I listen gratefully,
因為我，也，喜歡沉浸在他的故事裡 for I，too，love being lost in his stories.
當老人死後 When the old man dies,
王宮裡的所有人都逃到街上 all in the palace flee to the streets,
因為他們害怕穆拉德的悲傷會招致新的殺戮 for they fear Murad's grief will incur fresh murder.
但他只是坐著，嚎叫著，並喝著酒直到喝光為止 But he just sits，and howls, and drinks until he is empty.
而我的耐心得到了回報 And my patience is rewarded.
因為在這種情況下 For in this state,
我終於能引起他的注意 I am finally able to get his attention
而把他拉回到秘密浴室 and draw him back to the secret bathroom.
哦，我知道這是怎麼回事 Oh，I know where this is going.
他會太虛弱了，搬不動那塊石頭 He's going to be too weak to lift the stone.
太虛弱了，連門閂都擰不動 Too weak even to turn the latch.
所以，他離開了，喝著酒永遠睡著了 So，he leaves and drinks himself to permanent sleep.
噢! Oh!
而我就在那裡 And there I am,
留給我自己的遺忘 left to my own oblivion,
沒有人能聽到我的聲音 with no one to hear my voice,
沒有人認識我，感覺不到我，意識不到我 no one to know me, nor feel me，nor sense me.
你無法想像 You can't imagine.
噢，事實上，我可以 Well，actually，I can.
你能想像那種孤獨嗎? Can you imagine the loneliness?
它是如何壓倒一切? How it might overwhelm?
我能 I can.
只有當我們對他人真實時，我們才會存在 We exist only if we are real to others.
你同意嗎? Do you agree?
我同意 I do.
這，那麼，就是我們的命運，艾麗西亞 This，then, is our fate，Alithea.
如果你一個願都不許 If you make no wish at all,
我就會被困在兩個世界之間 I will be caught between worlds,
在所有的時間裡，看不見的，孤獨的 invisible and alone, for all of time.
許個願吧，艾莉西亞 Make a wish，Alithea.
讓它成為你內心的願望 Make it your heart's desire.
如果我是你我會更小心 I'd be more careful if I were you.
顯然地，你設法找到了出去的路 Obviously，you managed to find your way out.
或多或少 More or less.
我開始覺得我面對的是 I'm beginning to think I'm in the presence
一個騙子 of a trickster.
那就好多了 That would be so much better.
我的工作會容易得多 My work would be so much easier.
但事實是，我只是一個白癡 But the truth is, I am just an idiot
一直非常不走運 who has been extravagantly unlucky.
噢，我不得不相信你的話 Well，I have to take your word for that.
所以? So?
易卜拉辛，我想，會成為蘇丹王? Ibrahim，I suppose, becomes Sultan?
易卜拉辛必須被推上王位 Ibrahim has to be dragged to the throne.
他任命他的一個妃子 He appoints one of his concubines
為大馬士革的總督 Governor of Damascus.
她的名字叫"糖塊" Her name is Sugar Lump.
無論從哪方面來看，都是他的最愛 By every measure，his favorite.
如果她不能自由閒晃 Had she not been free to roam,
她就不會發現那個秘密浴室 she would not have found the secret bathroom.
要不是她決定洗個澡 Had she not decided to take a bath,
水就不會溢滿了 it would not have overfilled.
如果她不是笨手笨腳地 Had she not been clumsy
當她走過地板 as she walked across the floor,
她不會滑倒，砸碎石頭 she would not have slipped, smashed the stone,
並發現我的瓶子 啊，是的 and found my bottle. Ah，yeah.
說實話，我應該更有尊嚴 To be honest，I should have been more dignified.
但我開始乞討，無恥地 But I began to beg，shamelessly.
"我希望你滾回" "I wish you were back"
"你的瓶子裡沉在博斯普魯斯海底" "in your bottle at the bottom of the Bosphorus."
所以我在這裡 So here I am,
落入你小心翼翼的手中 fallen into your careful hands.
似乎我們無法逃脫彼此 Seems we cannot escape each other.
你讓我聽命於你 You have me at your mercy.
這個願望...This wishing...
這是一門危險的藝術 It's a hazardous art.
"我希望"會帶來無限的釋放 "I wish" brings infinite unravelings.
不一定 Not necessarily.
噢，在你所有的故事裡都有 Well，it's there in all your own stories.
我知道，但是... I know，but...
你說你不是騙子 You say you're not a trickster,
而且你說你和我是這個故事的作者 and you say that you and I are the authors of this story.
但我不能把自己寫出來 But I'm not able to write myself out of it.
沒錯 Correct.
你為什麼不回到你的瓶子裡去 Why don't you just hop back into your bottle
而我會把它交給更容易上當受騙的人？ and I'll give it to someone more gullible?
更絕望的人 更貪婪的人 Someone more desperate. Someone more greedy.
我不要再回到瓶子裡了 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
為什麼不? Why not?
我不要再回到瓶子裡了 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
噢，我可不會許三個願望 Well，I am not making three wishes.
那你是在把我送進我的遺忘之地 Then you are sending me to my oblivion.
哦，你真是不可理喻 Oh，you're impossible.
而你讓我頭疼 And you are giving me a headache.
好的 好的 All right. All right.
這就是我要做的 我會許三個願望 Here's what I'll do. I will make three wishes.
我會的 在你死之前? I will. Before you die?
現在 一個接一個 Right now. One after the other.
準備好的? 嗯-嗯! Ready? Mmm-hmm.
第一個 我希望你的頭痛消失了 Number one. I wish your headache were gone.
第二個 Number two.
我想喝一口這種茶 I wish for a sip of this tea.
而最後，我希望再來一個這樣的 And finally，I wish for another one of those.
你在嘲弄我 You mock me.
三個願望，非常簡單 Three wishes，perfectly simple,
而且理論上也很安全 and theoretically safe.
我被所羅門囚禁正是 I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely
因為我說出了內心的渴望 because I cried out my heart's desire.
只有把你的權利給你我才能獲得釋放 Only by granting you yours may I earn my release.
是的，噢，我很欣賞你對稱的安排 Yes，well, I appreciate the symmetry,
但問題是 but the thing is this,
我這輩子連一個合適的願望都想不出 I cannot for the life of me summon up one eligible wish.
而你卻向我要三個 And you're asking me for three.
你身上有生命嗎？你甚至還活著嗎？ Is there any life in you? Are you even alive?
你知道，在某些文化中 You know，in some cultures,
沒有慾望就意味著未開發 absence of desire means enlightenment.
那你就是個虔誠的傻瓜 Then you are a pious fool.
如果我滿足了，為什麼要去冒險? If I'm content，why tempt fate?
而你是個懦夫 And you're a coward.
別刺激我 Don't goad me.
世上沒有人類，沒有天使，也沒有精靈 There is no human, no angel，nor djinn
不會抓住機會 that wouldn't grasp at the chance
來滿足他們內心深處的渴望 to fulfill their deepest longings,
而我卻要承擔一個 and I am saddled with the one
自稱什麼都不想要的人 who claims to want nothing at all.
艾莉西亞·賓尼，你是個騙子! Alithea Binnie，you are a liar!
你知道，我開始希望我們從未見過面 You know，I am beginning to wish we never met.
不! 不! No! Nyet!
別那樣說! Don't say that!
所以...So...
你以前也發生過這種事 that's happened to you before.
而且這很糟糕 And it was bad.
太糟糕了 'Twas bad.
太痛苦的 'Twas bitter.
這是最殘酷的願望 'Twas the cruelest wish of all.
你又一次被愚蠢毀了 You were undone by silliness yet again.
我來這裡是因為一個天才 I'm here because of a genius.
這次是誰？ Who was it this time?
她是澤菲爾 She was Zefir.
人類中很少有這樣的奇葩 Rarely among humankind has there been such a wonder.
但你在這裡是因為她的愚蠢 But you're here because of her folly.
澤菲爾的事讓我陷入了這樣的境地 I ended up in this as a consequence of Zefir.
而這就是 And this is the story
你一直迴避告訴我的故事 you've been avoiding telling me all along.
這就是甚至連我自己一直避免講的故事 This is the story I've avoided telling even myself.
澤菲爾是一個棄嬰 Zefir was a foundling,
12歲時嫁給了一個富商 married at 12 to a wealthy merchant.
他比她老很多，而且很善良 He was much older than her, and kind,
如果你認為把人像鳥一樣關在籠子裡算是善良的話 if you think keeping someone like a bird in a cage is kind.
有兩個年長的妻子，她們不喜歡她 There were two older wives, who did not like her
而且根本不跟她說話 and did not talk to her at all.
每個人，包括僕人 Everyone, including the servants,
似乎都在嘲笑她 seemed to be mocking her.
她既沒有禮儀，也沒有學問 She had neither etiquette nor learning.
她長得不是很漂亮 She grew to no great beauty
而且不知道為什麼就生氣 and was angry without knowing why.
就像命運的安排，我的瓶子來到了她身邊 As the fates would have it, my bottle came to her
作為她丈夫的愛的象徵 as a love token from her husband.
而當她滿足了他 And when she had finished satisfying him
而終於獨自一人 and was finally alone,
她設法撬開瓶子 she managed to prise it open.
這就好像她正等著我 It was as if she was waiting for me.
我一眼就看出她很機靈 I saw at once that she was sharp,
而且她看到我非常渴望 and she saw that I was desperate
自由和對話 for freedom and conversation.
我把我的故事告訴了她，就像我告訴你的那樣 I told her my story, as I have told you,
而她用自己做的東西向我介紹她自己 and she revealed herself to me by the things she had made.
過來 過來 Gel. Gel.
過來 Gel.
她本可以被人銘記 She could have been remembered
像天才達·芬奇一樣 like the genius da Vinci,
他的飛行理論 whose theories on flight
成了蘇丹和國王們的話題 were the talk of sultans and kings.
她是一位技藝高超的藝術家，但沒人看過她的作品 She was a skilled artist, but no one saw her art.
她告訴我她被 She told me she was eaten up
未曾見過的能量所吞噬 with unused power.
她覺得她可能是個女巫 She thought she might be a witch.
不過，她說，如果她是個男人 Except，she said, if she were a man,
她的聰明才智通常會被接受 her intellect would have been ordinarily accepted.
她是一個求知若渴的女人 She was a woman ardent for learning,
而我知道她的第一個願望是什麼 and I knew what her first wish would be.
而我很高興 And it delighted me
來實現這個願望 to fulfill this wish.
所以，我教她歷史，哲學 So，I taught her histories，philosophies,
語言，詩歌 languages，poetry.
我教她天文學，數學 I taught her astronomy，mathematic,
這對她來說是一種福氣 which was bliss to her.
我給她帶來了書和作品 I brought her books and writings,
我們把它藏在她收集的瓶子裡 which we hid in her collection of bottles.
沙巴...Sabah...
她總是可以找到亞里士多德 She could always call on Aristotle
從一個紅色的玻璃罐中 from a red glass jar,
或是綠色罐中找到歐幾里德 or Euclid from a green,
畢達哥拉斯，斯賓諾莎 Pythagoras，Spinoza,
而不需要我重新喚出他們 without needing me to re-embody them.
我們有整個世界都在她的房間裡 We had the whole world in her room,
而我卻愛上了她 and I lost my heart to her.
讓她開心是我的福氣 'Twas my bliss to make her happy.
看著她茁壯成長 To see her flourish.
而她在各個方面都茁壯成長 And she flourished in every way.
完全地 Totalmente.
她開始反抗 She began to rebel
甚至反對做愛姿態 even against the gestures of submission
她丈夫所要求的 that her husband required,
因為她已經掌握了做愛的技巧 for she had acquired a mastery of love-craft,
這是任何一個沒有 out of reach of any human
和精靈做愛過的人都無法達到的 that had not made love to a djinn.
他對她的渴望成了一種痴迷 His cravings for her became an obsession.
而當他來到她身邊時 And when he would come to her,
我會離開她的房間並在天空中旅行 I would leave her room and journey the skies.
我看到了山脈，海洋... I saw the mountains, the oceans...
我看到了森林裡的野獸 I saw the beasts of the forest,
那裡人煙絕跡 where no man treads.
而當我回來的時候，她會等著我 And when I would return, she would be waiting for me.
我告訴她我的那一天，而她會高興的暈倒 I would tell her of my day, and she would faint with joy
和失望 and disappointment.
她為什麼不許個自由的願望呢? Why did she not make a wish to be free?
對她來說還有更重要的事 There was something more important to her.
她設計了一種"數學" She had devised a "mathematica,"
一種語言來解釋 a language to explain the forces
形成空間、時間和物質的力量 which bring space，and time, and matter into being.
她是勇敢的普羅米修斯 She was Promethean，brave.
但她無法解開這個謎題 But she could not solve this puzzle.
她需要一把鑰匙 She needed a key,
一把打開她感知之門的鑰匙 a key to open the doors of her perception.
所以，她使用了她的第二個願望 So，she used her second wish.
我教她像精靈一樣做夢，醒著 I taught her to dream as djinn do，awake.
而以這種方式，她找到了答案 And this way, the solutions came to her.
她能夠解釋無形的力量 She was able to explain powers invisible,
電磁場和電力... electromagnetic fields and forces...
精靈就是用這種材料製成的 The very stuff of which djinn are made.
你是電磁的? You're electromagnetic?
因為你是塵土，我是由細微的火構成的 As you are dust, I am made of subtle fire.
而當她要生孩子的時候 And when she was to bear a child,
我被幸福所困擾 I was plagued with happiness,
因為我知道這會增強我們的力量 for I knew it would strengthen us.
她懷了你的孩子? She was carrying your child?
一個烈火與塵土的孩子 A child，of fire and dust.
所以，到底哪裡出了問題呢？ So，where did it go wrong?
艾莉西亞，我愛她 Alithea，I loved her.
我喜歡她內心的熱情 I loved the fervor of her mind.
我喜歡她的憤怒 I loved her anger.
我愛我把她的 I loved my power
皺眉變成微笑的能力 to turn her frowns into smiles.
我愛她勝過愛示巴 I loved her more than Sheba.
比你自己的自由更重要？ More than your own freedom?
是的 Yes.
這成了我最大的願望來...來留下她 It became my greatest desire to...to keep her,
來囚禁她 to remain her prisoner.
一想到要被釋放，我就心煩意亂 The thought of being set free sickened my heart.
我不自主地阻止了她，以免她許她的第三個願 I caught myself stopping her lest she make her third wish.
哦，天哪! Oh，gosh.
我把事情搞砸了 I made a mess of it.
她開始指責我陷害她 She began to accuse me of trapping her,
就像她丈夫一樣 like her husband.
我試著去彌補 I tried to make amends.
為了贖罪，我會把自己放進瓶子裡 To atone，I would put myself in the bottle.
將被封存 To be sealed.
那樣的話，她就能對我有更大的權力 That way，she could have more power over me.
在瓶子裡什麼都不是 To be nothing in a bottle.
我可以為她這麼做 I could do that for her.
而每一次，它都會安撫 And every time, it would appease.
每一次，除了最後一次 Every time，except for the last.
當，就像一場突然的狂風，所有雷電交加 When，like a sudden squall, all thunder and lightning,
她開始嚎啕大哭，並說 she began to weep and wail, and said,
"我希望我能忘記我曾經見過你" "I wish I could forget I ever met you."
而她做了，就在瞬間 And she did，on the instant.
她在外 我在內 She was out. I was in.
她已忘了我 She'd forgotten me.
艾麗西亞，這怎麼可能是... Alithea，how can it be...
全心全意愛一個人是錯誤的嗎？ a mistake to love someone entirely?
我有一個願望 I have a wish.
然而，我擔心這可能要求太高了 However，I'm afraid it may be too much to ask.
這在我的能力範圍內嗎? Is it within my power?
我希望如此 我真的希望如此 I hope so. I do hope so.
這是你內心的願望嗎？ Is it your heart's desire?
是的，我很確定 Yeah，I'm certain of it.
你看，呃! See，erm,
我是來愛你的 I'm here to love you.
而且，呃! And，uh,
我希望你愛我作為回報 I wish for you to love me in return.
你想讓我們做愛嗎？ You want us to make love-craft?
是啊，那也是 Yeah，that too.
全部 All of it.
而你會沉溺你自己於此嗎？ And you would abandon yourself to this?
是的 Yes.
我希望我們的孤獨合在一起 I want our solitudes to be together.
我想讓那份愛在永恆的故事中流露出來 I want that love professed in ageless tales.
我想要你對示巴女王的渴望 I want that longing you felt for the Queen of Sheba,
以及你對天才澤菲爾的愛 and that love you gave to your genius，Zefir.
我想要它 I want it.
我? Me?
你 You.
你? You?
我 Me.
是不是太多了？ Is it too much?
這是不是要求太多了？ Is it all too much to ask?
來吧! Come.
我們該如何面對被喚醒的渴望? What are we to do with longings awoken?
我怎麼才能說服你 How can I persuade you
我曾經和一個精靈相愛了？ that I once found love with a djinn?
無論如何，很少有人會相信我 In any case, few would believe me.
愛情不是我們憑理性得出的東西 Love is not something we come to by reason.
它更像是一種蒸汽 It's more like a vapor,
一個夢，也許是 a dream，perhaps,
來引誘我們進入 to lure us into the enchantment
我們自己的故事的魔力 of our own stories.
如果是這樣 If that's so,
我們怎麼知道這是不是真的? how are we to know if it's ever real?
這是事實，還是僅僅是一種瘋狂？ Is it a truth, or simply a madness?
我今天要回倫敦 I leave for London today.
你願意和我一起回家嗎? Will you come home with me?
如今，這不是一個容易混的地方 It's not such an easy place nowadays.
但如果你在那裡就更好了 But it'll be better if you're there.
到這邊來，請 Over here，please.
手舉起來 Hands up.
請出來 Please step out.
你口袋裡有什麼? What is in your pockets?
噢! Oh.
呃，是個空瓶子和蓋子 Uh，it's an empty bottle and a top.
請將它通過X光檢查 Please put it through X-ray.
它非常精緻 It is very delicate,
而我不想它被損壞 and I don't want it to get damaged.
它不會被損壞的 請將它通過X光 It will not be damaged. Please put through X-ray.
我不希望它進入... I would prefer that it didn't go in the...
護照 登機證 Passport. Boarding pass.
謝謝你 Thank you.
它非常易碎 It's quite fragile.
夫人 Madam.
這是一個鹽瓶 It's a saltshaker.
噢! Oh.
不! 不用照X光! 拜託! No! No X-ray! Please!
停下，夫人，停下 Stop，madam，stop.
夫人 Madam.
噢! Oh.
在你自己的時間 In your own time.
這裡的空氣很濃 The air is thick here.
充滿持續的聲音和匆忙的面孔 Full of insistent voices and rushing faces.
噢? Oh?
像小愛因斯坦? Like Tiny Einstein?
電視、電話塔等等？ Television，and phone towers, and such?
是的 Yes.
是的 你所有的巧妙裝置 Yes. All your ingenious devices
一下子都在喃喃低語 all murmuring at once.
低下你的頭 Bend your head.
你都聽到那了嗎? You hear all that?
我也看到並感受到了它 I also see it and feel it.
我是一個傳輸機 I am a transmitter.
這是不是太過分了? Isn't it all too much?
我是個精靈 I am a djinn.
我可以適應 I can adapt.
我很快就會習慣的 I'll soon get used to it.
她回來了 She's back.
我相信她回來了 I believe she's back.
她和別人在一起嗎? Is she with someone?
不，我想她又在自言自語了 No，I think she's talking to herself again.
你好，克萊門泰 Hello，Clementine.
芬妮 你好嗎? Fanny. Are you well?
你遇到什麼麻煩了嗎? Did you have any trouble?
麻煩? 什麼樣的麻煩? Trouble? What kind of trouble?
和你的外國朋友 With your foreign friends.
因為我們經常問自己 Because we often ask ourselves,
"為什麼賓尼博士要浪費她的時間和智慧" "Why would Dr. Binnie waste her time and intelligence"
"學習別人的方式，而不是堅持我們自己的方式？" "studying the ways of others instead of upholding our own?"
我們為我們的英國文化感到尷尬，是嗎？ Embarrassed by our British culture，are we?
不是 不是 No. No.
我更容易感到尷尬 因為任何人 I am rather more likely to be embarrassed by anybody
反射性地害怕任何不同的人 reflexly frightened of anybody different.
你到底在說什麼？ What exactly are you saying?
她說我們是偏執狂 She's calling us bigots.
你說的，不是我說的 Your word，not mine.
你誤解了 You misunderstand.
噢? 不是他們看起來的樣子，親愛的 Oh? It's not how they look，dear.
這是他們生活的方式 他們所相信的 It's how they live. What they believe.
他們所吃的 你在胡扯些什麼？ What they eat. What are you on about?
無論走到哪裡，都有種族問題 Everywhere one goes，ethnics.
我們正在不知所措，我們正在招致我們的厄運 We are being overwhelmed, and we're inviting our doom.
這很不自然 It's not natural.
鳥兒應該飛在空中 魚屬於大海 Birds belong in the air. Fish belong in the sea.
而那就是仁慈的主希望我們成為的樣子 And that is how the good Lord meant us to be.
你們從頭到尾都在胡言亂語 You're just spouting rubbish from start to finish.
這是科學 這是科學事實 It's science. It's a scientific fact.
這是一個錯誤的類比 It's a false analogy.
我是說，動物確實有自然棲息地 I mean，animals do have a natural habitat.
這是真的，但人類有能力 It's true, but human beings are capable
生活在他們當然選擇的任何環境中 of living in any environment they bloody well choose.
那不是事實 That's not a fact.
你在說什麼呀？這只是一種觀點 What are you saying? It's an opinion.
而且你錯了 And you're wrong.
我再也不能忍受這種事了 I'm not putting up with any more of this.
來吧，克萊姆 別管那個瘋女人了 Come away，Clem. Let the crazy lady be.
我們永遠不會從她那裡得到任何理智 We're never gonna get any sense out of her.
你知道，我以前從來沒跟你說過這個 You know，I've never said this to you before.
但你們兩個都很可憐 But you're both pitiful.
閉上你的臭嘴！ Shut your cakehole!
腦殘而且可憐 Pea-brained and pitiful.
你，他媽的！You，fuckface!
你的常春籐不准再長過我們的牆! Stop your ivy growing on our side of the wall!
為什麼我要讓他們影響我？ Why do I let them get to me?
我應該為他們感到可惜 I should feel sorry for them.
但這是我的家 這是我的避難所 But this is my home. It's my sanctuary.
我可以希望他們... I could wish them...
順便說一句，那不是一個願望 That's not a wish，by the way.
我知道 I know.
我的精靈 My Djinn.
你今天過得怎麼樣? How was your day?
每一個傾聽的耳朵都是你的 Every listening ear was yours.
每一個聲音，每一種氣味，以及觸摸 Every voice，every scent, and touch.
你無處不在 You were everywhere.
馬上回來 Back in a minute.
這個時候會是誰呢? Whoever could that be at this hour?
可能是她 It could be her.
克雷姆 芬妮 Clem. Fanny.
鷹嘴豆，丁香，開心果 Chickpeas，cloves，pistachio.
它們會在你嘴裡融化 They melt in your mouth.
這是我的朋友 This is my friend.
他將要待一段時間 He'll be staying for a while.
你好 Hello.
你好 你好 Hello. Hello.
我的精靈告訴我 My Djinn told me,
當他們在精靈王國相遇時 when they come together in the Realm of Djinn,
他們會跟彼此講故事 they tell each other stories.
故事對他們來說就像呼吸一樣 Stories are like breath to them.
他們創造了意義 They make meaning.
"是的，"我說 "Yes，" I said.
"我們就是這樣" "That's just how it is with us."
我們講述的每個故事 Each story we tell is a fragment
都是無盡變形馬賽克中的一個片段 in an endless shape-shifting mosaic.
而這塊小鵝卵石，就像所有的故事一樣，必須結束 And this small pebble, like all stories，must end.
如果是關於許願的，那就是一個警世故事 If it's about wishing, it's a cautionary tale.
所以，它怎麼會出錯呢? So，how will it go wrong?
也許，它已經錯了 Perhaps，it already has.
即使真理赤身裸體地站在他們面前 Even though Truth stood before them naked,
他們轉過他們的身去 they turned their backs.
所以，真理走到一邊並在陰影中等待 So，Truth moved to the side and waited in the shadows.
接下來的日子裡 In the days that followed,
精靈會陪著敘事家去做她的工作 the Djinn would accompany the narratologist to her work.
而當他不和她在一起的時候 And when he wasn't with her,
他會熱切地探索這個世界 he would go in eager exploration of the world.
今天我度過了如此美妙的一天 Today I had such a marvelous day.
我看到了很多東西 I saw many things.
我看到一個人在觀察另一個人的大腦時 I watched a human look into the living brain of another
並止住了致命的出血 and arrest a fatal bleeding.
我參觀了分子對撞器 I visited the Collider.
一個探索物質原子的巨大裝置 A vast gizmo which probed the essence of matter.
而然後我看到了一個盤子，一個巨大的盤子 And then I saw a dish, a great dish
它傾聽著早已死去的星星的低語 that listens to the whispers of stars long dead.
人類是...Humankind is...
是個奇跡，艾麗西亞 is a wonder，Alithea.
我很高興你這麼想 I'm happy you think so.
從我被困在澤菲爾的瓶子裡開始 All of this since I was trapped in Zefir's bottle.
在不到200年的時間裡，所有這些令人震驚的事情 All these astonishments, in less than 200 years.
是的，但是，我是說 Yes，but，I mean,
那只是工程和技術 that's just engineering and technology.
儘管有那麼多驚天動地的事情 Despite all the whiz-bang,
我們仍然感到困惑 we remain bewildered.
當我們無法控制混亂的時候 When we can't contain the chaos,
我們就會充滿恐懼和恐慌 we are filled with dread and panic,
而我們就會相互攻擊 and we turn on each other.
但當然，你是人類 But of course，you are human.
那是你的本性 That is your nature.
是的 所以，故事永遠不會改變 Yeah. So，the story never changes.
仇恨盛行 Hate prevails.
它會轉移而且比愛更長久 It metastasizes and outlives love.
我只想談談愛 I just want to talk about love.
你們所有人，真是一團亂 Such a mess of contradictions，all of you.
非常感謝 Thank you very much.
人類，真是個難題 Humankind，what a conundrum.
你在黑暗中摸索 You fumble around in the dark,
然而，你把你的智慧發揮了很大的效用 and yet，you herd your intelligence to great effect.
這是一個很有意思的故事 It is quite a story.
等不及要看它會怎麼發展 Cannot wait to see where it goes.
或者它會如何結束 Or how it might end.
那也是 That too.
凡人永遠不會知道，但精靈可能知道 A mortal will never know, but a djinn might.
精靈擁有世界上所有的時間 A djinn has all the time in the world.
你不是那個幸運的人嗎？ Aren't you the lucky one?
也許吧! Maybe.
但你們這些塵埃生物已經... But you creatures of dust have...
已經超越了 have managed to eclipse
精靈和天使的力量和目的 the power and purpose of djinn and angel.
你對我們沒有任何用處 You have no use for us.
也許，我們會枯萎然後... Perhaps，we will wither and...
然後消失? 是的 And fade away? Yes.
是的 噢，這曾經是 Yeah. Well，that used to be the subject
我所有講座和論文的主題 of all my lectures and papers.
我知道 I know.
然而，你卻在這裡 And yet，here you are.
我的無可救藥 My impossible.
是的 Yes.
哈囉? Hello?
我回來了! I'm home!
哈囉? Hello?
精靈? Djinn?
我的愛? My love?
精靈 Djinn.
這是什麼? What's this?
你能聽到我說話嗎? Can you hear me?
精靈，跟我說話 Djinn，speak to me.
試著跟我說話 Try to speak to me.
我希望你跟我說話 I wish you to speak to me.
噢...Oh...
我正在睡覺 I was sleeping.
睡覺 Sleeping.
精靈不要睡覺 Djinn don't sleep.
讓我們去散步吧! Let's go for a walk.
一個長的、令人振奮的步行 A long，bracing walk.
我為我們準備了一些東西 I have prepared something for us.
我都計劃好了 I have it all planned.
對我們來說這是一個美妙的夜晚 A wonderous night for us.
這將是令人驚嘆的 It will be amazing.
我們生命中最美好的時光 等一下! The best time of our lives. Stop!
這些電磁場，我可以把它們從我的頭上推走 These electromagnetic fields, I can push them from my head.
我可以把它們推開 I can push them away.
我們要去野餐 We'll go for a picnic.
啊，我們要演奏烏克麗麗 Ah，we'll play the ukulele.
艾麗西亞，這裡有我的位置 Alithea，there is a place for me here.
這些力量 These forces,
它門永遠不會消失，不會從這個世界上消失 they will never go away, not from this world.
我會克服它們的 我可以幫你做到這一點 I will overcome them. I can do that for you.
你是我的艾莉西亞，而且我愛你 You are my Alithea, and I love you.
謝謝你 謝謝你 謝謝你的努力 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for trying.
你以為我不愛你嗎? You don't think that I love you?
愛是一份禮物 Love is a gift.
這是自己免費贈送的禮物 It's a gift of oneself given freely.
這不是一個人能要求得到的 It's not something one can ever ask for.
我把我倆都騙了 I tricked us both.
我說出那個願望的那一刻 The moment I spoke that wish,
我就剝奪了你實現它的能力 I took away your power to grant it.
我，比任何人都更應該知道這一點 I，more than anybody, I should've known that.
我不會再把這搞砸了 I'm not going to screw this up again.
我的精靈，如果這個世界不適合你 My Djinn，if this world is not for you,
我希望你回到屬於你的地方 I wish that you return to where you belong.
不管它在哪裡 Wherever that may be.
媽媽! Mommy!
過來這裡，小猴子 Come here，little monkey.
那不是媽媽 That's not Mommy.
嘿，嘿，嘿！啊，不！ Hey，hey，hey! Ah，no!
看 聯盟第一前鋒 Watch it. Top striker in the league.
你看到了嗎？Did you see that?
他會時不時地來拜訪 He would visit from time to time,
而且他們會抓住每一個生動的時刻 and they would grasp each vivid moment.
儘管喧鬧的天空令人痛苦 Despite the pain of the raucous skies,
他總是待得比他應該待的時間長 he always stayed longer than he should,
在她懇求他離開很久以後 long after she begged him to leave.
他答應在她有生之年回來 He promised to return in her lifetime,
而對她來說，這已經足夠了 and for her, that was more than enough.