[00:00.000] 作曲 : Laurie Anderson
[00:00.248] Gordon Matta-Clark died young.
[00:02.672] And he died in an amazing way.
[00:06.879] Gordon was a good friend of mine. And he was a sculptor.
[00:12.061] One of his most well known works was called Splitting,
[00:15.865] in which he sawed a suburban house in half.
[00:19.782] He was a minimalist,
[00:21.962] and there was a lot of advanced theory about why he cut houses in half.
[00:27.087] Although, none of the theories talked about his parents' divorce,
[00:31.027] Or what happened one day when his twin brother jumped to his death out of Gordon's window

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[00:43.072] When Gordon got sick, he decided to make his death very social.
[00:49.330] And so he invited his friends to come to the hospital.
[00:52.984] And he had only 24 hours left to live.
[00:56.451] The length of time that his system was breaking down.
[00:59.550] And he decided to spend this time reading to his friends.
[01:07.895] And when he died there were two lamas on either side of him.
[01:11.839] And when he stopped breathing they began shouting into his ear.
[01:17.185] Now, the Tibetans believe that hearing is the last sense to go.
[01:22.234] So after the heart stops, and your brain flatlines,
[01:26.094] and the eyes go dark, the hammers in the ears are still working.
[01:33.411] And so they shout instructions from the Tibetan Book of the Dead,
[01:36.963] also called 'The Great Liberation Through Hearing'
[01:39.719] And they yelled "Gordon! You're dead! You're dead now!"
[01:46.295] And they say "You see two lights, and one is near you, and one is far away.
[01:51.246] And don't go to the near one - go to the one that's far away..."
[01:54.363] And so on, and so on, and so on, and so on...
[01:59.211] I've seen three ghosts in my life now.
[02:02.576] And the first was Gordon.
[02:05.506] A few hours after he died.
[02:08.868] He appeared on the back porch of the commune I was living in.
[02:14.719] Every love story, is a ghost story.' (Ghost story, ghost story.)
[02:26.864] Said David Foster Wallace.