╗ ╚ 【書名】：Somewhere in Time 時光倒流七十年 (1998版) 【作者】：Richard Matheson 理查德·馬西森 【類型】：電影原著、穿越、愛情 【簡介】： ５０年前的愛情經典—— “Why were you expecting me?” I asked. 「為什麼會等我？」我問。 “Will you tell me where you came from?” she countered. 她反問：「你能不能告訴我你來自哪裡？」 “I did tell you.” 「我確實告訴過你。」 “Richard.” Her tone was mild but it was obvious that she was reproving me. 「 理查德。 」她的語氣很溫和，但顯然是在責備我。 “I promise that I’ll tell you when the right time comes,” I said. “I just can’t tell you now because—” I struggled for the proper words “—it might disturb you.” 「我保證，時機成熟時我會告訴你，」我說。「只是現在我不能告訴你，因為——」我努力尋找合適的措辭，「——這可能會讓你不安。」 “Disturb me?” Her laugh was brief and tinged with bitterness. “How can I be more disturbed than I am?” 「 打擾我？」她笑了笑，笑聲短暫而苦澀。「我還能比現在更煩嗎？」 I waited, silent. It took so long for her to speak that I decided she wasn’t going to tell me. Then, at last, she broke the silence, asking, unexpectedly, “Will you laugh?” 我沉默地等著。她過了很久才開口，我都覺得她不會告訴我了。最後，她終於打破了沉默，出乎意料地問道：「你會笑嗎？」 “Is it funny?” I couldn’t check the response though I regretted it the moment it passed my lips. 「好笑嗎？」我來不及確認這句話的意思，話一出口我就後悔了。 Happily, she took it as intended, her face softening with a tired smile. “In a way,” she said. “Bizarre, at least.” 她欣然接受了這個意思，臉上浮現出一絲疲憊的微笑。「某種程度上來說，」她說，「至少很奇怪。」 “Let me decide,” I asked her. 「讓我來決定，」我問她。 Another lengthy hesitation. Finally, stiffening her back as though to brace herself for the recountal, she began. “It comes in two parts,” she said. “Late in the eighties, I don’t remember the exact year, my mother and I performed in Virginia City.” 她又是一陣長時間的猶豫。最後，她挺直了腰背，彷彿要為接下來的敘述做好準備，然後開口說道：「這事分兩部分，」她說，「八十年代末，具體哪一年我記不清了，我和母親在弗吉尼亞城演出過。」 November 1887, the thought came unbidden. 1887年11月，這個念頭不由自主地湧上心頭。 “One night, after the performance,” she continued, “some people brought an old Indian woman to the hotel where we were staying. They told us she could predict the future, so, as a lark, I asked her to tell mine.” 「一天晚上演出結束後，」她繼續說道，「有人帶了一位印度老婦人到我們住的酒店。他們說她能預知未來，所以我一時興起，請她幫我算算我的未來。」 I felt my heartbeat growing heavier. 我覺得自己的心跳越來越重。 “She said that, when I was twenty-nine years old, I would meet the—” she stopped “—a man,” she amended. “That he would come to me—” she drew in sudden breath “—under very strange circumstances.” 「她說，在我二十九歲那年，我會遇到——」她停頓了一下，「——一個男人，」她補充道。「他會來找我——」她突然倒吸了一口氣，「——在非常奇怪的情況下。」 I looked at her lovely profile, waiting. When she said no more, I prompted, “Part two?” 我看著她迷人的側臉，靜靜地等待著。她沒有再說話，我便問：「第二部分？」 She spoke immediately. “There is a wardrobe mistress in our company whose mother was a Gypsy. She claims to have—what shall I call it?—the power of divination?” 她立刻開口說道：「我們公司有一位服裝管理員，她的母親是吉普賽人。她聲稱自己有——我該怎麼稱呼它呢？——占卜的能力？」 The beating of my heart was very heavy now. “And?” I murmured. 我的心跳變得異常劇烈。 「然後呢？」我低聲問。 “Six months ago, she told me that—” She stopped uncomfortably. 「六個月前，她告訴我—」她尷尬地停了下來。 “Please tell me,” I asked: 「請告訴我，」我問： She hesitated, then began again. “That I would meet this … man in November.” I heard the sound of her swallowing. “On a beach,” she said. 她猶豫了一下，然後又開口說道：「我會在十一月遇到這個……男人。」我聽到她吞了口唾沫。 「 在海灘上， 」她說。 I couldn’t speak, overwhelmed by what she’d told me. The miracle of what had taken place in my life now seemed balanced by the miracle of what had taken place in hers. Not that I believed I was the only man in the world for her; nothing like that. It was simply that I felt a sense of what can only be described as awe at the phenomenon of our coming together. 她的話讓我激動得說不出話來。我生命中發生的奇蹟，如今似乎與她生命中發生的奇蹟達到了平衡。倒不是說我認為我是她命中註定的唯一，絕非如此。我只是對我們相遇的奇蹟感到無比敬畏。 出版年：1998年10月 / 原版：1975年 Like What Dreams May Come! 就像美夢成真一樣！ Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy. 《時光倒流七十年》講述了一個超越時空、感人至深的愛情故事，作者是現代奇幻文學大師之一。 Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. 理查德·馬西森的經典小說，講述了一個感人至深的浪漫故事：一個現代男子愛上了一個素未謀面的女人，這讓他回到了 1896 年聖地亞哥的一家豪華酒店，在那裡他遇到了自己的靈魂伴侶——一位上個世紀的著名女演員。 Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1979 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day. 《時光倒流七十年》榮獲世界奇幻獎最佳小說獎，1979 年由克里斯多福·李維和珍西摩爾主演的電影版至今仍是一部經典之作，其粉絲每年都會舉辦派對。 |
