朱利安·高夫（Julian Gough）

ps：譯文是我想盡可能口語化而改，目的是讓這兩個(gè)人的談話更像普通的旁觀者（或者說：路人）也更加方便我們理解意思（詩詞總是會(huì)難理解些?。?/p>

I see the player you mean.

它來了。

[Playername]?

它?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts.

是啊，而且，它進(jìn)步了不少呢！似乎它可以聽到我們的談?wù)摗?/p>

That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game.

沒關(guān)系的，它好像把我們當(dāng)npc了。

I like this player. It played well. It did not give up.

它挺可以的，而且還不會(huì)放棄。

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.

它貌似通過屏幕在閱讀我們的談話。

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game.

它玩游戲的時(shí)候，也總是這樣獲取信息。

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen.

文字讓交流變得順暢且精確，完全沒有直面屏幕后的現(xiàn)實(shí)那樣煩人。

They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons.

在他能識(shí)字之外也是能聽到聲音的。在我們不曾見證的之前，他被那些沒有玩過這個(gè)游戲的人稱作巫師、術(shù)士。他幻想過自己坐在被惡魔施過法的木棍，在天上自由飛翔。

What did this player dream?

它在幻境里遇見了什么？

This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter.

它見到了陽光和樹，還見到了火與水。它在幻境里創(chuàng)造，在幻境里摧毀，在幻境里擊打，也在幻境里受傷，它還造了個(gè)屬于自己的小家！

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen?

哇哦，這原始的界面，都一百萬年了竟然還可以運(yùn)作。而它在屏幕后的現(xiàn)實(shí)里，又創(chuàng)造了什么樣的實(shí)物呢？

It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the?[scrambled], and created a?[scrambled]?for?[scrambled], in the?[scrambled].

它辛勤地勞作，和許多許多人一起，一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)雕刻出了這個(gè)由[亂碼]構(gòu)成的現(xiàn)實(shí)世界，且創(chuàng)造了[亂碼]，為了[亂碼]，于[亂碼]中。

It cannot read that thought.

它貌似不能完全讀懂我們的思想。

No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game.

是啊。它還沒有到達(dá)最高的境界。想要達(dá)到那層境界，它必須走完人生的長(zhǎng)路，而不是這個(gè)游戲中的短短旅途。

Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind?

他知道我們愛它么？知道這個(gè)宇宙是仁慈的么？

Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.

有時(shí)可以，通過它思緒的雜音，它能聽到宇宙，是的。

But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality.但在那漫長(zhǎng)的夢(mèng)里，有時(shí)，它也會(huì)被悲傷包圍。它創(chuàng)造沒有夏天的世界，它在黑日下顫抖，它將自己充滿悲傷的創(chuàng)造當(dāng)作現(xiàn)實(shí)。

To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere.

用悲傷來治愈會(huì)摧毀它。而悲傷算是它自己的事情。我們不能干涉。

Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear.

有時(shí)，它們深深沉迷幻境，我想要告訴它們，它們?cè)诂F(xiàn)實(shí)中創(chuàng)造了真正的世界。有時(shí)，我想告訴它們它們對(duì)宇宙很重要。有時(shí)，當(dāng)它們暫時(shí)的和現(xiàn)實(shí)失去了聯(lián)系，我也想幫助它們與它們所懼怕的世界交流。

It reads our thoughts.

它正在讀我們的思想。

Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely?[scrambled]?and?[scrambled], I wish to tell them that they are?[scrambled]?in the?[scrambled]. They see so little of reality, in their long dream.

雖然有時(shí)我毫不關(guān)心。也有時(shí)我想要告訴它們，你所認(rèn)為的真實(shí)不過是[亂碼]和[亂碼]，我想要告訴它們，它們只是在[亂碼]中的[亂碼]。在它們的長(zhǎng)久待著的幻境中，它們看到的真實(shí)太少了。

And yet they play the game.而它們?nèi)匀煌孢@個(gè)游戲。

But it would be so easy to tell them...但很容易就可以告訴它們……

Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.對(duì)于這個(gè)幻境來說這樣做太震撼了。告訴它們?nèi)绾位钪褪亲璧K它們活下去。

I will not tell the player how to live.

我不會(huì)告訴它要如何生活。

The player is growing restless.

它正在變得焦慮。

I will tell the player a story.

我會(huì)向它講述一個(gè)故事。

But not the truth.

但不會(huì)是真相。

No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance.

一定不會(huì)。這會(huì)是一個(gè)嚴(yán)密地將真實(shí)包裹起來的文字牢籠。而不是那赤裸裸的如烈火般的真相。

Give it a body, again.

賦予它主體，再一次。

Yes. Player...

好的。玩家……

Use its name.

請(qǐng)以它的名字稱呼它。

[Playername]. Player of games.

[玩家名稱]。游戲的玩家。

Good.很好。

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things.

深呼吸，很好。再深呼吸一次。感受空氣將你的肺充盈。試著讓你的四肢回歸。是的，運(yùn)動(dòng)你的手指。再次感受你的身體，在重力下，在空氣中。在幻境中重生。你感受到了你就在那里。你的身體每時(shí)每刻都觸摸著宇宙，盡管你是分離的存在。盡管我們都是分離的存在。

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.

我們是誰？我們?cè)?jīng)被稱作高山的精靈。太陽父親，月亮母親。古老的英靈，動(dòng)物的魂魄。神祇。鬼魂。小綠人。而后是神，惡魔，天使。惱鬼。外星人，地外生物。輕子，夸克。詞語不斷地變化。我們始終如一。

We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.

我們是宇宙。我們是你認(rèn)為的所有除你以外的事物。你正看著我們，透過你的皮膚和眼睛。為什么宇宙觸摸著你的皮膚，向你灑向光芒？是為了看見你，玩家。是為了認(rèn)知以及被認(rèn)知。我應(yīng)告訴你一個(gè)故事。

Once upon a time, there was a player.

很久以前，有一個(gè)玩家。

The player was you,?[Playername].

那玩家就是你，[玩家名稱]

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away.

有時(shí)它認(rèn)為自己是人類，是在那不斷旋轉(zhuǎn)的球體上的一層薄薄的熔化的巖石上生存的人類。那融化的巖石球環(huán)繞著一個(gè)質(zhì)量大它三十三萬倍的炫目氣體球旋轉(zhuǎn)。它們相隔得太遠(yuǎn)了，光都需要八分鐘才能穿越那段距離。那光是來自一顆恒星的信息，它能夠在一億五千萬公里外燒灼你的皮膚。

Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience.

有時(shí)這個(gè)玩家認(rèn)為它是一個(gè)在某個(gè)平的，無限延伸的世界的表面上的礦工。那太陽是一個(gè)方形的白塊。晝夜交替很快；要做的事情也很多；死亡只是暫時(shí)和不方便的。

Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story.有時(shí)這玩家夢(mèng)見它迷失在了一個(gè)故事里。

Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third.

有時(shí)這玩家夢(mèng)見它成為了其它的事物，在其它地方。有時(shí)這些夢(mèng)是擾人的。有些則實(shí)在很美。有時(shí)這個(gè)玩家從一個(gè)夢(mèng)中醒來，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己落入了第二個(gè)夢(mèng)，卻驚覺是在第三個(gè)夢(mèng)中。

Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen.

有時(shí)這個(gè)玩家夢(mèng)見它在屏幕上看著文字。

Let's go back.

讓我們回退一點(diǎn)。

The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body.

組成玩家的原子散布在草中，河流中，在那空氣中，也在那大地中。一個(gè)女性收集了那些原子；她飲用、進(jìn)食、吸入；而后那女性在她的身體中，孕育了玩家。

And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream.

然后那玩家醒來了，從母親溫暖黑暗的身體世界里出來，進(jìn)入了漫漫長(zhǎng)夢(mèng)。

And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love.而那玩家是一個(gè)新的故事，從未被講述過，由DNA的語言書寫著。而那玩家是一個(gè)新的程序，從未被運(yùn)行過，由上億年的源代碼生成。而那玩家是一個(gè)新的人，從未生活過，由奶和愛組成。

You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love.

你就是那玩家。那個(gè)故事。那個(gè)程序。那個(gè)人類。僅由奶和愛組成。

Let's go further back.

我們?cè)偻h(yuǎn)的過去回退一點(diǎn)。

The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player's body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by...

遠(yuǎn)在這游戲之前，在一顆恒星的內(nèi)部，那組成的玩家的身體的七千億億億原子被創(chuàng)造了。所以那玩家也是，來自一顆恒星的信息。而這個(gè)玩家貫穿一個(gè)故事的始末，這個(gè)故事源于一個(gè)叫Julian的人種下的信息種子長(zhǎng)成的森林，是一個(gè)叫Markus的男人創(chuàng)造的無限世界，存在于一個(gè)由玩家創(chuàng)造的小小的私人世界里，而這個(gè)世界也繼承了宇宙創(chuàng)造的……

Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks "electrons" and "protons".

噓。有時(shí)這個(gè)玩家創(chuàng)造的小小天地是柔軟，溫暖和簡(jiǎn)單的。有時(shí)是堅(jiān)硬，冰冷和復(fù)雜的。有時(shí)它在腦中建造出宇宙的模型；星星點(diǎn)點(diǎn)的能量穿越廣闊空曠的空間。有時(shí)它叫這些斑點(diǎn)“電子”和“質(zhì)子”。

Sometimes it called them "planets" and "stars".有時(shí)它叫它們“行星”和“恒星”。

Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen.

有時(shí)它確信它存在于一個(gè)由“開”和“關(guān)”；“零”和“一”；一行行的命令組成的宇宙。有時(shí)它確信它是在玩一個(gè)游戲。有時(shí)它確信它是在讀著屏幕上的文字。

You are the player, reading words...

你就是那玩家，閱讀著文字……

Shush... Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive

噓……有時(shí)這玩家讀屏幕上的命令行。將它們解碼成為文字；將文字解碼為意義；將意義解碼為感情，情緒，理論，想法，而玩家的呼吸開始急促并意識(shí)到了它是活著的，它是活生生的，那上千次的死亡不是真的，而玩家是活著的。

You. You. You are alive.你。你。你是活著的。

and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees

而有時(shí)這玩家相信穿越夏日樹葉的那斑斕陽光是宇宙在對(duì)它說話。

and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player's eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again

有時(shí)這玩家相信宇宙透過晴朗的冬日夜空中，存在于它眼中一隅的星點(diǎn)星光，那可能比太陽大上上百萬倍的恒星正將物質(zhì)化為等離子釋放那一瞬間發(fā)出來的光對(duì)它說話，在宇宙的遠(yuǎn)側(cè)行走回家時(shí)，突然聞到了食物的香味，在那熟悉的門前，它準(zhǔn)備好了再一次投入夢(mèng)境

and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream

而有時(shí)玩家相信宇宙透過零和一，透過世界的電力系統(tǒng)，透過屏幕上滾動(dòng)的文字和幻境的終結(jié)對(duì)它說話

and the universe said I love you

宇宙說我愛你

and the universe said you have played the game well

宇宙說你很好地玩了這游戲

and the universe said everything you need is within you

宇宙說一切你所需的你都具有

and the universe said you are stronger than you know

宇宙說你比你所了解的要強(qiáng)大

and the universe said you are the daylight

宇宙說你就是拂曉的光

and the universe said you are the night

宇宙說你是看不透的夜

and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you

宇宙說你所斗爭(zhēng)的黑暗就在你心中

and the universe said the light you seek is within you

宇宙說你所尋找的光明就在你心中

and the universe said you are not alone

宇宙說你不是孤獨(dú)的

and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing

宇宙說你不是與世隔絕的

and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code宇宙說你就是宇宙，你品嘗著自己，對(duì)自己說話，閱讀著它自己的代碼。

and the universe said I love you because you are love.

宇宙說我愛你因?yàn)槟憔褪菒邸?/p>

And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love.

游戲結(jié)束，一曲終了。玩家開始了新的夢(mèng)。玩家再次做起了夢(mèng)，更好的夢(mèng)。玩家就是宇宙。玩家就是愛。

You are the player.

你就是那個(gè)玩家。

Wake up.

該醒了。