耻《卢里勾引梅拉妮时放的动画大师Norman Mclaren的电影》

《耻》的主人公卢里教授勾引梅拉妮时为了营造气氛，放了部电影（《耻》中文版P16）。在兰登书屋主页上找了原文：

'Don't go yet.' He takes her by the hand and leads her to the sofa. 'I have something to show you. Do you like dance? Not dancing: dance.' He slips a cassette into the video machine. 'It's a film by a man named Norman McLaren. It's quite old. I found it in the library. See what you think.'

Sitting side by side they watch. Two dancers on a bare stage move through their steps. Recorded by a stroboscopic camera their images ghosts of their movements fan out behind them like wingbeats. It is a film he first saw a quarter of a century ago but is still captivated by: the instant of the present and the past of that instant evanescent caught in the same space.

He wills the girl to be captivated too. But he senses she is not.

这部影片当是Mclaren导演的《Pas de deux》，由两个芭蕾舞演员主演。中文版的译者以为Mclaren是该片主演，错掉了。

在作者简洁的文笔中，这部并不流行的影像作品却在情节中占了数行文字，显然有特别的用意。

片子拍摄于1968年，而卢里则是在“四分之一个世纪前”看到的片子——那时候梅拉妮可能都还没出生。这次放映时，卢里拿到的片子的介质是老式的录像带，而他对梅拉妮介绍这部片子时还专门说了句：“片子很老了。”接下来，文中又特别描述了影片的迷人之处——现在的一瞬和刚刚逝去的一刹同时出现在一个空间里。这就暴露了盧裡为与他年岁悬殊的梅拉妮放映这部片子的原因：试图通过攫住年轻肉体的活力，来重证自己旧日的魅力。

可惜，放映没在她那里激起多少反响，使得他利用片子调情的算盘打了空。

又，想起卓越还是贝塔斯曼来着，给这本小说做的广告辞：

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