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And the question that I want to ask everybody here today is are you guys all cool with that idea?
我今天想問在座各位的是：你們大家都對此毫無異議嗎？
Are you comfortable with that? Because you look at it even from an inch away and, you know -- I'm not at all comfortable with that assumption.
你們都覺得這一觀點(diǎn)毫無問題嗎? 哪怕稍稍離遠(yuǎn)點(diǎn)看這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)，我也不能同意這種臆斷。
I think it's odious. And I also think it's dangerous, and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century.
這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)不但可憎，而且可怕，我不希望這樣的想法一直延續(xù)到下個(gè)世紀(jì)。
I think it's better if we encourage our great creative minds to live.
我覺得鼓勵(lì)我們偉大的創(chuàng)作天才們繼續(xù)活下去會(huì)更加好。
And I definitely know that, in my case -- in my situation -- it would be very dangerous for me to start sort of leaking down that dark path of assumption,
而且就我自己來說，持這一觀點(diǎn)必然將我引入黑暗的絕境，
particularly given the circumstance that I'm in right now in my career.
尤其是在我目前的事業(yè)階段。
Which is -- you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old.
你看，我還年輕，我才四十來歲。
I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me.
我今后還有大約四十年的創(chuàng)作生涯。
And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
而且很有可能的是，從這一刻起，我所寫的每一部作品，都會(huì)被用來和我上一本轟動(dòng)一時(shí)的巨作進(jìn)行比較，不是嗎？
I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now -- it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me.
坦率地說吧，看在我們都聊了這么久，我就說句朋友間的掏心話吧，極有可能的是，我這輩子最大成功已經(jīng)過去了。
So Jesus, what a thought! That's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
天啊，這是何種的想法！就是這種想法，讓人踏上了一大清早就喝琴酒的不歸路啊，我可不想變成那樣。
I would prefer to keep doing this work that I love.
我希望繼續(xù)從事我所熱愛的寫作事業(yè)。
And so, the question becomes, how? And so, it seems to me, upon a lot of reflection,
所以問題就變成：我應(yīng)該怎么辦呢？經(jīng)過一番深入思考，
that the way that I have to work now, in order to continue writing, is that I have to create some sort of protective psychological construct, right?
在我看來，要想繼續(xù)寫作，我必須要?jiǎng)?chuàng)造出某種心理保護(hù)機(jī)制。
I have to sort of find some way to have a safe distance between me, as I am writing,
我必須以某種方式，建立起一個(gè)安全距離，區(qū)別開寫作本身，
and my very natural anxiety about what the reaction to that writing is going to be, from now on.
以及我對于作品反響的極度焦慮。
And, as I've been looking, over the last year, for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time,
前一年，我到處找尋可以參考的模式，在歷史中找，也在不同文化中找
and I've been trying to find other societies to see if they might have had better
看他們是否有比我們更好、更理智的觀點(diǎn)。
and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people sort of manage the inherent emotional risks of creativity.
來幫助藝術(shù)工作者處理藝術(shù)創(chuàng)作所固有的內(nèi)在情感風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。
