The 4 a.m. mystery | Rives

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

Ovo je nedavni strip iz Los Anđeles Tajmsa.

The punch line?

Poenta priče?

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

"Sa druge strane, ne moram da ustanem svakog jutra

every single morning to milk my Labrador."

u 4 da nahranim svog labradora."

This is a recent cover of New York Magazine.

Ovo je nedavna naslovna strana Nju Jork Magazina (New York Magazine).

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

Najbolje bolnice gde bi se doktori latili hemoterapije,

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

porođaja, moždanog udara, srčanih bolesti, operacije kuka, hitnih slučajeva u 4 ujutru.

And this is a song medley I put together --

A ovo je miks pesama koji sam sastavio -

(Music)

(muzika)

Did you ever notice that four in the morning has become

Da li ste ikada primetili da je 4 ujutru postalo

some sort of meme or shorthand?

neka vrsta skraćenice ili kratke ideje?

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

Kao da ste budni u najgori mogući čas.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

A time for inconveniences, mishaps, yearnings.

Vreme za neprijatnosti, nezgode, čežnje.

A time for plotting to whack the chief of police,

Vreme kad planirate da koknete šefa policije,

like in this classic scene from "The Godfather."

kao u klasičnoj sceni iz "Kuma".

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

Kopolin scenario kaže da su ovi momci "iscrpljeni u majicama kratkih rukava.

It is four in the morning."

4 je sata ujutro."

(Laughter)

(smeh)

A time for even grimmer stuff than that,

Vreme za još grozomornije stvari od ove,

like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's

kao što su autopsije ili balsamovanje u "Kući duhova"

"The House of the Spirits."

Izabele Alende.

After the breathtaking green-haired Rosa is murdered,

Nakon što je prelepa zelenokosa Rosa ubijena,

the doctors preserve her with unguents and morticians' paste.

lekari su je premazali mašću i pogrebnikovom pastom.

They worked until four o'clock in the morning.

Radili su do 4 ujutru.

A time for even grimmer stuff than that,

Vreme za čak tmurnije stvari i od ovih,

like in last April's New Yorker magazine.

poput one u prošlom aprilskom broju Nju Jork magazina,

This short fiction piece by Martin Amis

kratka priča Martina Amisa (Martin Amis)

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

počinje ovako, "11. septembra 2001., Muhamed Ata, otvorio je oči

at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine,

u 4 ujutru, u Portlandu u Mejnu, (Portland, Maine)

and Mohamed Atta's last day began."

i poslednji dan njegovog života je počeo."

For a time that I find to be the most placid

Za vreme dana za koje mislim da je najmirnije

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

i s najmanje događaja, 4 sata ujutru itekako dobija

an awful lot of bad press --

užasno mnogo lošeg publiciteta -

(Laughter)

(smeh)

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

preko mnogo različith medija i mnogo velikih imena.

And it made me suspicious.

Pa sam počeo da sumnjam.

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

Pomislio sam, verovatno da veći deo kreativnih umova na svetu,

aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope

ne koristi ovaj laki motiv

like they invented it, right?

kao da je njihov lični, zar ne?

Could it be there is something more going on here?

Da li je moguće da tu ima nešto više?

Something deliberate, something secret,

Nešto namerno, nešto tajno.

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

I ko je uopšte prvi oklevetao "4 sata ujutru"?

I say this guy -- Alberto Giacometti, shown here

Ja mislim ovaj tip - Alberto Điakometi, ovde prikazan

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

sa nekim od njegovih skulptura na švajcarskoj novčanici od 100 franaka.

He did it with this famous piece

Uradio je to svojim poznatim delom

from the New York Museum of Modern Art.

iz Njujorškog Muzeja Moderne Umetnosti.

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

Naziv - "Dvorac u 4 ujutru -

(Laughter)

(smeh)

1932.

1932.

Not just the earliest cryptic reference

Ne samo da je najraniji zagonetni zapis

to four in the morning I can find.

o 4 sata ujutru koji sam mogao da nađem.

I believe that this so-called first surrealist sculpture

Verujem da ova navodno prva nadrealistička skulptura

may provide an incredible key to virtually

može da da rešenje za otkrivanje

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

skoro svakog umetničkog opisa 4 sata ujutru koji je usledio.

I call this The Giacometti Code, a TED exclusive.

Ja ovo zovem Điakometi Kod, ekskluzivno za TED.

No, feel free to follow along on your Blackberries

Ne, slobodno ispratite ovo na svom blekberiju (Blackberry)

or your iPhones if you've got them.

ili ajfonu (iPhone), ako ih imate.

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

Ide nekako ovako - ovo je nedavna gugl (Google) pretraga

for four in the morning.

na temu 4 sata ujutru.

Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical.

Rezultati variraju, naravno. Ovo je tipično.

The top 10 results yield you

Prvih 10 rezultata daće vam

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

četiri pogotka za pesmu Farona Janga (Faron Young) " 4 je sata ujutru,"

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

tri pogotka za film Džudi Denč (Judi Dench) " 4 sata ujutru,"

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

jedan pogodak za pesmu Vislave Zimborske, "4 sata ujutru."

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

Ali šta, možete se zapitati, poljska pesnikinja, britanska dama,

a country music hall of famer all have in common

i poznati kantri muzičar mogu imati zajedničko

besides this totally excellent Google ranking?

osim ovog potpuno fenomenalnog gugl rasporeda?

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

Pa, počnimo sa Faron Jangom - koji je rođen, sasvim slučajno,

in 1932.

1932.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

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

Pucao je sebi u glavu, decembra devetog 1996. -

which incidentally is Judi Dench's birthday.

na dan koji je sasvim slučajno rođendan Džudi Denč.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

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

Ali on nije umro na njen rođendan.

He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed

Patio se do sledećeg popodneva kada je konačno podlegao

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

rani koju je navodno sebi naneo hicem iz pištolja u 64. godini -

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

toliko je, sasvim slučajno imao Alberto Điakometi kada je umro.

Where was Wislawa Szymborska during all this?

A gde je bila Vislava Zimborska za vreme svega ovoga?

She has the world's most absolutely watertight alibi.

Ona ima najčvršći alibi na čitavom svetu.

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

Tačno tog dana, 10. decembra 1996., dok je gospodin Četiri-sata-ujutru,

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

Faron Jang, napuštao svet u Nešvilu, Tenesi,

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

G-đica Četiri-sata-ujutru - ili bar jedna od njih - Vislava Zimborska

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

bila je u Stokholmu, u Švedskoj, prihvatala Nobelovu Nagradu za književnost

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

tačno 100 godina nakon smrti samog Alfreda Nobela.

Coincidence? No, it's creepy.

Slučajnost? Ne, jezivo je.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

Coincidence to me has a much simpler metric.

Magija slučajnosti je za mene mnogo jednostavnija.

That's like me telling you,

To je kao kad vam ja kažem,

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

"Hej, znate Nobelova nagrada je osnovana 1901.,

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

što je sasvim slučajno ista godina kad je Alberto Điakometi rođen?"

No, not everything fits so tidily into the paradigm,

Ne, ne uklapa se sve tako savršeno u ovu paradigmu,

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

ali to ne znači da se nešto ne dešava

at the highest possible levels.

na najvišim mogućim nivoima.

In fact there are people in this room

Ustvari u ovoj sobi ima ljudi

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

koji možda ne žele da vam prikažem ovaj snimak koji ćemo upravo videti.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

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

Snimak: Imamo teniski teren, bazen, sobu za nadzor -

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

Mislite, ako ja poželim svinjske odreske, čak i usred noći,

your guy will fry them up?

vaš čovek će ih ispeći?

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

Naravno, za to je plaćen.

Now do you need towels, laundry, maids?

E sada, da li su vam potrebni peškiri, veš, služavke?

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

Ček', ček', ček', ček', ček', ček' - da vidim da li sam dobro razumeo.

It is Christmas Day, 4 a.m.

Božić je, 4 je sata ujutru.

There's a rumble in my stomach.

Moj stomak zavija.

Marge Simpson: Homer, please.

Homere, molim te.

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

Ček', ček', ček', ček', ček', ček', ček'.

Let me see if I got this straight, Matt.

Da vidim da li sam dobro razumeo, Met.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

When Homer Simpson needs to imagine

Kada Homer Simpson treba da zamisli

the most remote possible moment of not just the clock,

najužasniji mogući trenutak i to ne samo kad je sat u pitanju

but the whole freaking calendar, he comes up with 0400

već čitava godina, za njega je to 4 sata ujutru

on the birthday of the Baby Jesus.

na dan rođenja Isusa.

And no, I don't know how it works

I ne, ne znam kako se to uklapa

into the whole puzzling scheme of things, but obviously

u ovu zagonetnu šemu stvari, ali očigledno,

I know a coded message when I see one.

prepoznajem šifrovanu poruku, kada je vidim.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

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

Kažem, prepoznajem skrivenu poruku kada je vidim.

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

I ljudi, možete da kupite primerak Bil Klintonove knjige "Moj život "

from the bookstore here at TED.

ovde u TED knjižari.

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

Analizirati je od korice do korice u potrazi za skrivenim motivima.

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

Ili da posetite internet stranicu "Random House" gde je ovaj odlomak.

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

I šta mislite koliko duboko ćemo morati da kopamo

to get to the golden ticket?

da bismo našli odgovor?

Would you believe about a dozen paragraphs?

Oko dvanaest pasusa, ako možete da poverujete?

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

Ovo je 474. strana u vašim knjigama, ako pratite:

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

"Iako je napredovao, i dalje nisam bio zadovoljan

with the inaugural address.

sa inauguracijskim govorom.

My speechwriters must have been tearing their hair out

Moji pisci govora mora da su čupali kose sa glava

because as we worked between one and four in the morning

jer dok smo radili između jedan i četiri ujutru

on Inauguration Day, I was still changing it."

na dan Inaguracije, ja i dalje nisam bio zadovoljan."

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

Naravno da jesi, jer si se celog života pripremao

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

za ovaj istorijski događaj koji ti se jednostavno prišunjao.

And then --

I onda

(Laughter)

(smeh)

three paragraphs later we get this little beauty:

tri pasusa kasnije dobijamo ovu lepotu:

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

"Otišli smo nazad do Blerove kuće da poslednji put pregledamo govor.

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

Mnogo se poboljšao od 4 ujutru."

Well, how could it have?

Kako je to moguće?

By his own writing, this man was either asleep,

Prema njegovom sopstvenom pisanju, čovek je ili spavao,

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

bio na molitvenom sastanku sa Alom i Tiperom ili je učio kako da lansira

a nuclear missile out of a suitcase.

nuklerani projektil iz aktovke.

What happens to American presidents at 0400 on inauguration day?

Šta se dešava sa američkim predsednicima u 4 ujutru na dan inaguracije?

What happened to William Jefferson Clinton?

Šta se desilo Vilijamu Džefersonu Klintonu?

We might not ever know.

Možda nikada nećemo saznati.

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

I koliko sam primetio, on nije ovde

to face any tough questions.

da odgovori na ova teška pitanja.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

It could get awkward, right?

Moglo bi da postane neprijatno, je l'?

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

Mislim, ipak, sve ovo desilo se na njegovoj straži.

But if he were here --

Ali da je on ovde -

(Laughter)

(smeh)

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

mogao bi da nas podseti, kao što to čini u svojoj autobiografiji

that on this day Bill Clinton began a journey --

da je toga dana, Bil Klinton krenuo na putovanje -

a journey that saw him go on to become

putovanje kojim je postao

the first Democrat president elected

prvi demokratksi predsednik izabran

to two consecutive terms in decades.

u dva mandata u poslednjih nekoliko decenija.

In generations.

Generacija.

The first since this man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

Prvi posle ovog čoveka, Frenklina Delano Ruzvelta,

who began his own unprecedented journey

koji je započeo svoj put bez presedana

way back at his own first election,

još davno, kada je prvi put izabran,

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

davno u jednostavnija vremena, davne 1932. -

(Laughter)

(smeh)

the year Alberto Giacometti

godine kada je Alberto Điakometi

(Laughter)

(smeh)

made "The Palace at Four in the Morning."

napravio "Dvorac u 4 ujutru."

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

Godine, da vas podsetim, kada je ovaj, sad minuo glas,

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

prvi put zaplakao na ovom našem ludom svetu.

(Music)

(muzika)

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