[00:00.000] 作曲 : Laurie Anderson
[00:19.869] As a child, I was a kind of a sky worshipper.
[00:23.921] This was the Midwest and the sky was so vast.
[00:29.256] It was most of the world.
[00:33.016] I knew I had come from there.
[00:35.308] And that some day, I would go back
[01:03.181] What are days for?
[01:05.617] To wake us up.
[01:09.449] To put between the endless nights
[01:18.013] What are nights for?
[01:23.034] To fall through time, into another world
[01:34.295] [Helicopter noises]
[02:05.779] I live in Downtown Manhattan.
[02:09.350] Next to the West Side Highway.
[02:11.868] In September 2001,
[02:13.719] after the Trade Centre fell,
[02:15.760] everything was covered with white ash.
[02:19.155] For months, lines of trucks moved up the highway –
[02:22.238] -carrying the twisted metal debris from the Towers
[02:28.525] Out at the end of the pier,
[02:29.907] there's a strange Assyrian looking building.
[02:32.704] And during this time,
[02:33.835] FBI speedboats began to dock out there.
[02:37.603] It was the beginning of a time when cameras began to appear everywhere
[02:45.582] [Helicopter noises]
[02:49.463] And everything was so loud, and such a mess.
[02:53.574] I tried to get out of town as much as I could.
[02:55.889] And I decided to go to California.
[02:59.502] Up to the northern mountains.
[03:01.224] With my dog Lolabelle.
[03:03.878] Now, the idea was to take a trip,
[03:05.851] and spend some time with her.
[03:08.268] And do a kind of experiment
[03:10.425] – to see if I could learn to talk with her.
[03:13.602] Now, I'd heard that rat-terriers could understand about 500 words,
[03:20.069] and I wanted to see which ones they were.
[03:23.872] It was February, and the mountains were covered with tiny wildflowers.
[03:30.414] And such a huge tall sky.
[03:34.168] And very thin, pale, blue air.
[03:36.921] And hawks. Circling.
[03:41.922] Every morning we walked down to the ocean,
[03:44.316] which took most of the day.
[03:45.860] And what happened was – more or less
[03:49.176] – beauty got in the way of the experiment.
[03:51.711] It was just so beautiful up there that I forgot the whole project, really.
[03:56.563] It just slipped my mind.
[03:58.497] Most days the walk to the ocean took several hours.
[04:02.980] And we would just goof around and lie down, and have snacks, and carrots
[04:10.151] Now, rat-terriers are bred to protect borders.
[04:13.434] So Lolabelle was always on the job.
[04:15.976] She would trot in front of me on the trail,
[04:18.495] doing a little advance work.
[04:20.135] A little surveillance.
[04:24.163] Now occasionally, out of the corner of my eye,
[04:26.160] I'd see some hawks circling in this very lazy way, way up in the sky.
[04:32.464] And then one morning, suddenly,
[04:33.905] for no reason – they came swooping down right in front of me.
[04:38.141] Dropping down through the air
[04:39.461] – their claws wide open – right on top of Lolabelle.
[04:43.884] And then they swooped back up and dropped back down
[04:46.728] and I realised that they were in the middle of changing their plan.
[04:49.849] This little white thing –
[04:52.276] that'd looked like a tiny white bunny from 2,000 feet up
[04:55.739] – was turning out to be just a little too big to grab by the neck
[04:59.828] And they were making their calculations, figuring it out
[05:04.246] And then I saw Lolabelle's face.
[05:06.669] And she had this brand new expression.
[05:09.106] First was the realisation that she was prey.
[05:12.506] And that these birds had sought to kill her
[05:17.374] And second, was a whole new thought.
[05:23.159] It was the realisation that they could come from the air.
[05:30.218] I mean, I never thought of that.
[05:32.542] A whole 180 more degrees that I'm now responsible for.
[05:38.268] It's not just the stuff down here –
[05:40.583] the dirt, the paths, the roots, the trees - but all this too...
[05:46.664] And the rest of the time we were in the mountains,
[05:49.472] she just kept looking over her shoulder,
[05:51.581] and trotting along with her head in the air.
[05:53.769] Her eyes scanning the thin sky.
[05:55.827] Like there's something wrong – with the air
[06:00.809] And I thought: "where have I seen this look before?"
[06:08.569] And then I realised it was the same look on the faces of my neighbours in New York,
[06:15.422] in the days right after 9/11.
[06:17.388] When they suddenly realised –
[06:19.688] first, that they could come from the air.
[06:27.553] And second – that it would be that way from now on.
[06:32.721] And we had passed through a door.
[06:38.587] And we would never be going back.