The 4 a.m. mystery | Rives

Tole je nedavni strip iz Los Angeles Timesa.

In zaključni stavek?

"Po drugi strani pa mi ni treba vsako jutro vstati ob 4-ih,

da bi pomolzel svojega labradorca."

Tole je nedavna naslovnica revije New York Magazine.

Najboljše bolnišnice, kjer zdravniki pravijo, da bi se lotili kemoterapij,

This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times.

porodov, kapi, srčnih bolezni, zamenjav kolkov, nujnih primerov ob štirih zjutraj.

The punch line?

"On the other hand, I don't have to get up at four

In tole je moj venček pesmi -

every single morning to milk my Labrador."

This is a recent cover of New York Magazine.

(Glasba)

Leonard Cohen: Ob štirih zjutraj je,

Best hospitals where doctors say they would go for cancer treatment,

konec decembra...

births, strokes, heart disease, hip replacements, 4 a.m. emergencies.

Bob Dylan: No, ob štirih zjutraj je,

And this is a song medley I put together --

sodeč po zvoku ptic...

(Music)

Paul Simon: Ob štirih zjutraj, zmatran, zehajoč...

Ste kdaj opazili, da je četrta ura zjutraj postala

nekakšen meme oz. stenografski zapis.

Pomeni nekaj v smislu, da ste budni ob najslabši možni uri.

(Smeh)

Čas za nevšečnosti, nezgode, hrepenenje.

Did you ever notice that four in the morning has become

Čas za načrtovanje umora načelnika policije,

some sort of meme or shorthand?

kot v tej klasični sceni iz Botra.

It means something like you are awake at the worst possible hour.

Coppolin scenarij te tipe opiše kot "izčrpane v kratkih rokavih.

(Laughter)

A time for inconveniences, mishaps, yearnings.

Ura je štiri zjutraj."

(Smeh).

Čas za še bolj srhljive zadeve,

A time for plotting to whack the chief of police,

npr. avtopsije in balzamiranja v "Hiši duhov" Isabel Allende.

like in this classic scene from "The Godfather."

Ko je dih jemajoča zelenolasa Rosa umorjena,

Coppola's script describes these guys as, "exhausted in shirt sleeves.

jo zdravniki konzervirajo z mazili in pasto.

It is four in the morning."

(Laughter)

Delali so do štirih zjutraj.

A time for even grimmer stuff than that,

like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's

Čas za še bolj srhljive zadeve.

"The House of the Spirits."

V zadnji aprilski izdaji revije New Yorker

After the breathtaking green-haired Rosa is murdered,

se kratka zgodba Martina Amisa začne takole:

the doctors preserve her with unguents and morticians' paste.

"11. septembra 2001 je Mohamed Atta oči odprl

They worked until four o'clock in the morning.

ob štirih zjutraj v Portlandu, Maine,

A time for even grimmer stuff than that,

in začel se je njegov zadnji dan življenja."

like in last April's New Yorker magazine.

Za čas, ki se mi zdi najbolj umirjen in nevznemirljiv del dneva,

This short fiction piece by Martin Amis

starts out, "On September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes

se o četrti uri zjutraj vsekakor piše dosti slabega

at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine,

and Mohamed Atta's last day began."

(Smeh)

v številnih medijih in s strani številnih velikih imen.

For a time that I find to be the most placid

Pa sem postal sumničav.

Pomislil sem, da se eni najbolj ustvarjalnih duhov zagotovo ne vračajo

and uneventful hour of the day, four in the morning sure gets

an awful lot of bad press --

(Laughter)

k privzemanju tega enostavnega tropa, kot bi si ga bili sami izmislili, ne?

across a lot of different media from a lot of big names.

And it made me suspicious.

Je možno, da je na tej stvari kaj več?

Nekaj premišljenega, nekaj skrivnega.

I figured, surely some of the most creative artistic minds in the world, really,

Kdo je začel s širjenjem slabega slovesa "četrte ure zjutraj"?

aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope

Rekel bi, da tale tip,

like they invented it, right?

Alberto Giacometti, ki je tukaj prikazan

Could it be there is something more going on here?

z nekaj svojimi skulpturami na švicarskem bankovcu za 100 frankov.

Something deliberate, something secret,

Začel je s svojim slavnim delom iz muzeja sodobne umetnosti v New Yorku.

and who got the four in the morning bad rap ball rolling anyway?

Njegov naslov - "Palača ob štirih zjutraj -

I say this guy -- Alberto Giacometti, shown here

(Smeh)

1932.

with some of his sculptures on the Swiss 100 franc note.

Ni samo najzgodnejša skrivnostna omemba četrte zjutraj, kar jih lahko najdem.

He did it with this famous piece

from the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Verjamem, da ta tako imenovana prva nadrealistična skulptura

Its title -- "The Palace at Four in the Morning --

lahko predstavlja ključ do praktično vsake umetniške upodobitve

(Laughter)

1932.

četrte ure zjutraj, ki ji je sledila.

Not just the earliest cryptic reference

Pravim ji Giacomettijeva šifra, ekskluzivno za TED.

to four in the morning I can find.

I believe that this so-called first surrealist sculpture

Ne, lahko mi sledite na svojih Blackberryjih

may provide an incredible key to virtually

ali iPhonih, če jih imate.

Deluje nekako takole - to je nedavno iskanje na Googlu za četrto zjutraj.

every artistic depiction of four in the morning to follow it.

I call this The Giacometti Code, a TED exclusive.

Seveda zadetki variirajo. To je tipično.

Prvih 10 zadetkov vam prinese

No, feel free to follow along on your Blackberries

štiri zadetke za pesem Faron Young, "Ob štirih zjutraj je,"

or your iPhones if you've got them.

It works a little something like -- this is a recent Google search

tri zadetke za film z Judi Dench, "Ob štirih zjutraj"

for four in the morning.

in en zadetek za pesem Wislawe Szymborske, "Ob štirih zjutraj."

Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical.

The top 10 results yield you

Toda lahko se vprašate, kaj imajo skupnega poljska pesnica, britanska dama

four hits for Faron Young's song, "It's Four in the Morning,"

in slaven country glasbenik

three hits for Judi Dench's film, "Four in the Morning,"

razen te odlične razporeditve v Googlu?

one hit for Wislawa Szymborska's poem, "Four in the Morning."

No, začnimo s Faronom Youngom, ki se je, mimogrede, rodil

But what, you may ask, do a Polish poet, a British Dame,

leta 1932.

a country music hall of famer all have in common

(Smeh)

1996 se je ustrelil v glavo devetega decembra -

besides this totally excellent Google ranking?

Well, let's start with Faron Young -- who was born incidentally

kar je, mimogrede, rojstni dan Judi Dench.

in 1932.

(Smeh)

(Laughter)

A ni umrl na rojstni dan Dencheve.

In 1996, he shot himself in the head on December ninth --

Trpel je do naslednjega popoldneva,

ko je pri 64-ih podlegel strelni rani, ki si jo je domnevno povzročil sam,

which incidentally is Judi Dench's birthday.

(Laughter)

kar je, mimogrede, bila starost Alberta Giacomettija, ko je umrl.

But he didn't die on Dench's birthday.

He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed

Kje je bila med vsem tem Wislawa Szymborska?

Ima absolutno najbolj vodotesen alibi na svetu.

to a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 64 --

Točno na ta dan, 10. decembra 1996,

which incidentally is how old Alberto Giacometti was when he died.

ko je gospod Ob-štirih-zjutraj, Faron Young, v Nashvillu zapuščal ta svet,

Where was Wislawa Szymborska during all this?

je gospa Ob-štirih-zjutraj - oz. ena vsaj od njih - Wislawa Szymborska,

She has the world's most absolutely watertight alibi.

bila v Stockholmu, kjer je sprejemala Nobelovo nagrado za literaturo.

On that very day, December 10, 1996 while Mr. Four in the Morning,

Do dneva natančno 100 let po smrti samega Alfreda Nobela.

Faron Young, was giving up the ghost in Nashville, Tennessee,

Ms. Four in the Morning -- or one of them anyway -- Wislawa Szymborska

Naključje? Ne, srhljivo je.

(Smeh)

was in Stockholm, Sweden, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Naključje ima zame dosti preprostejšo metriko.

Kot bi vam rekel:

"Hej, si vedel, da so Nobelovo nagrado ustanovili leta 1901,

100 years to the day after the death of Alfred Nobel himself.

ki je po naključju leto rojstva Alberta Giacomettija?"

Coincidence? No, it's creepy.

Ne, ne ustreza vse tako lepo tej paradigmi,

(Laughter)

Coincidence to me has a much simpler metric.

That's like me telling you,

a to ne pomeni, da se nič ne dogaja

"Hey, you know the Nobel Prize was established in 1901,

na najvišjih možnih ravneh.

which coincidentally is the same year Alberto Giacometti was born?"

Pravzaprav so v tej sobi ljudje,

ki si morda ne želijo, da vam pokažem ta posnetek.

No, not everything fits so tidily into the paradigm,

(Smeh)

Video: Imamo teniško igrišče, bazen, projekcijsko sobo -

but that does not mean there's not something going on

Pravite, da če si sredi noči zaželim svinjske zrezke,

at the highest possible levels.

jih bo vaš človek spekel?

In fact there are people in this room

Seveda, za to je plačan.

who may not want me to show you this clip we're about to see.

Torej, a potrebujete brisače, pranje perila, sobarice?

(Laughter)

Čakaj, čakaj, čakaj, čakaj, čakaj, čakaj - da vidim, če sem razumel.

Video: Homer Simpson: We have a tennis court, a swimming pool, a screening room --

You mean if I want pork chops, even in the middle of the night,

Božič je, ob štirih zjutraj.

V trebuhu mi kruli.

your guy will fry them up?

Homer, prosim te.

Herbert Powell: Sure, that's what he's paid for.

Čakaj, čakaj, čakaj, čakaj, čakaj, čakaj, čakaj.

Now do you need towels, laundry, maids?

Da vidim, če sem razumel, Matt.

HS: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait -- let me see if I got this straight.

(Smeh)

It is Christmas Day, 4 a.m.

Ko si mora Homer Simpson zamisliti

There's a rumble in my stomach.

najhujši možni trenutek, in to ne samo po uri,

Marge Simpson: Homer, please.

Rives: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

ampak v celotnem prekletem koledarju, si zamisli četrto zjutraj

Let me see if I got this straight, Matt.

na rojstni dan malega Jezuščka.

(Laughter)

In ne, ne vem, kako se to vklaplja

When Homer Simpson needs to imagine

v vso to begajočo shemo stvari, a očitno,

the most remote possible moment of not just the clock,

prepoznam kodirano sporočilo, ko ga vidim.

but the whole freaking calendar, he comes up with 0400

(Smeh)

on the birthday of the Baby Jesus.

Pravim, da prepoznam kodirano sporočilo, ko ga vidim.

And no, I don't know how it works

into the whole puzzling scheme of things, but obviously

In ljudje, izvod knjige Billa Clintona, "Moje življenje", lahko kupite

v knjigarni tu na TED-u.

I know a coded message when I see one.

Preletite jo od platnice do platnice iščoč skrite namige.

Ali pa pojdite na spletno stran Random House, kjer je ta odlomek.

(Laughter)

I said, I know a coded message when I see one.

In kaj mislite, kako daleč se bomo morali spustiti,

And folks, you can buy a copy of Bill Clinton's "My Life"

da pridemo do odgovora?

A lahko verjamete, da ducat odstavkov?

from the bookstore here at TED.

Parse it cover to cover for whatever hidden references you want.

To je na strani 474 verzije z mehko vezavo, če sledite:

Or you can go to the Random House website where there is this excerpt.

"Čeprav sem postajal boljši, še vedno nisem bil zadovoljen

And how far down into it you figure we'll have to scroll

z govorom ob zaprisegi.

to get to the golden ticket?

Moji pisci govora so si verjetno pulili lase,

Would you believe about a dozen paragraphs?

ker sem ga med našim delom od enih do štirih zjutraj

This is page 474 on your paperbacks if you're following along:

na dan zaprisege, še vedno spreminjal."

"Though it was getting better, I still wasn't satisfied

Seveda si ga, seveda, saj si se celo življenje pripravljal

with the inaugural address.

My speechwriters must have been tearing their hair out

na ta zgodovinski štiriletni dogodek, ki se ti je potem kar nekako prikradel.

because as we worked between one and four in the morning

In potem -

(Smeh)

on Inauguration Day, I was still changing it."

potem pa čez tri odstavke pridemo do te lepote:

Sure you were, because you've prepared your entire life

"Vrnili smo se v Blair House, da bi govor še zadnjič pregledali.

for this historic quadrennial event that just sort of sneaks up on you.

Od četrte zjutraj se je precej izboljšal."

And then --

Le kako se je lahko?

(Laughter)

Po njegovem lastnem pisanju, je ali spal,

three paragraphs later we get this little beauty:

bil na molitvenem sestanku z Alom in Tipper,

ali pa se je učil, kako sprožiti jedrski izstrelek kar iz kovčka.

"We went back to Blair House to look at the speech for the last time.

Kaj se zgodi ameriškim predsednikom ob 4:00 na dan zaprisege?

It had gotten a lot better since 4 a.m."

Well, how could it have?

Kaj se je zgodilo Williamu Jeffersonu Clintonu?

By his own writing, this man was either asleep,

Morda ne bomo nikoli vedeli.

at a prayer meeting with Al and Tipper or learning how to launch

In opazil sem, da ga danes ni ravno tukaj,

a nuclear missile out of a suitcase.

da bi se soočil s kakšnimi težkimi vprašanji.

(Smeh)

What happens to American presidents at 0400 on inauguration day?

Lahko bi postalo neprijetno, ne?

Kajti vse to se je zgodilo, ko je bil on glavni.

What happened to William Jefferson Clinton?

We might not ever know.

A če bi bil tukaj -

(Smeh)

And I noticed, he's not exactly around here today

bi nas morda spomnil, kot to naredi v zaključku svoje fine avtobiografije,

to face any tough questions.

(Laughter)

da je na ta dan Bill Clinton začel potovanje -

It could get awkward, right?

potovanje, na katerem je postal

I mean after all, this whole business happened on his watch.

prvi predsednik Demokratske stranke,

But if he were here --

ki je bil izvoljen na dveh zaporednih volitvah, po desetletjih.

(Laughter)

he might remind us, as he does in the wrap-up to his fine autobiography,

Po več generacijah.

Prvi po tem možakarju, Franklinu Delanu Rooseveltu,

that on this day Bill Clinton began a journey --

ki je začel svoje lastno potovanje brez primere

a journey that saw him go on to become

the first Democrat president elected

daleč nazaj na svojih prvih volitvah,

to two consecutive terms in decades.

daleč nazaj v bolj preprostih časih,

In generations.

daleč nazaj,

The first since this man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

leta 1932 -

who began his own unprecedented journey

(Smeh)

leta, ko je Alberto Giacometti

way back at his own first election,

(Smeh)

naredil "Palačo ob štirih zjutraj."

way back in a simpler time, way back in 1932 --

Leta, spomnimo se, ko je ta glas, zdaj pokojnika,

prvič zajokal v ta naš veliki stari nori svet.

(Laughter)

the year Alberto Giacometti

(Laughter)

(Glasba)

made "The Palace at Four in the Morning."

The year, let's remember, that this voice, now departed,

first came a-cryin' into this big old crazy world of ours.

Lep majhen valček.

(Glasba)

(Music)

Veliko je za razmisliti.

(Glasba)

Hvala vam.

(Aplavz)

(Applause)