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小说家谭恩美寻找她发展创意的过程，探讨创意从何而来。
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- There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book.
- 除此以外，还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。
- In this case, I was writing a story that included some kind of detail, period of history, a certain location.
- 当时我正在写一个古代的故事，需要那个年代的历史和地理资料来补足故事中的细节。
- And I needed to find something historically that would match that.
- 我需要找到某些历史事件来与其匹配。
- And I took down this book, and I -- first page that I flipped it to was exactly the setting, and the time period,
- 我从书架上拿下这本书，我翻开的第一页便是我故事里的时代和地点，
- and the kind of character I needed was the Taiping rebellion,
- 以及我在描写太平天国时所需要的人物，
- happening in the area near Guilin, outside of that, and a character who thought he was the son of God.
- 在一个接近桂林的地方，和一个认为他是神的儿子的人物。
- You wonder, are these things random chance?
- 你不禁想，这一切都是偶然的吗？
- Well, what is random? What is chance? What is luck?
- 但偶然是什么？机会是什么？运气又是什么？
- What are things that you get from the universe that you can't really explain?
- 那些从天而降的灵感又是什么？
- And that goes into the story, too. These are the things I constantly think about from day to day.
- 这也成为故事的一部分。这些就是我日复一日想着的事。
- Especially when good things happen, and, in particular, when bad things happen.
- 在好事发生的时候，尤其，在坏事发生的时候。
- But I do think there's a kind of serendipity, and I do want to know what those elements are,
- 但我是相信这种突发灵感的，我也想知道它们形成的元素是什么，
- so I can thank them, and also try to find them in my life.
- 我才能感谢并找到它们。
- Because, again, I think that when I am aware of them, more of them happen.
- 因为，我想，我越能察觉它们，它们就发生的越频繁。
- Another chance encounter is when I went to a place
- 还有一次是我去了一个地方，
- I just was with some friends, and we drove randomly to a different place,
- 我只是和朋友漫无目的地开着车，
- and we ended up in this non-tourist location, a beautiful village, pristine.
- 却到了这个旅游景点以外的一个淳朴的、古朴的村庄，
- And we walked three valleys beyond, and the third valley, there was something quite mysterious and ominous, a discomfort I felt.
- 我们越过了三个山谷，在第三个山谷，我有些神秘的、不舒服的预感。
- And then I knew that had to be setting of my book.
- 我知道这将成为我故事的场景。
- And in writing one of the scenes, it happened in that third valley.
- 故事里的其中一幕便发生在第三个山谷，
- For some reason I wrote about cairns -- stacks of rocks -- that a man was building.
- 其中一幕我写到，一个男人，正摆着石堆。
- And I didn't know exactly why I had it, but it was so vivid.
- 我不知道为什么我这样写，但那景象很鲜明。
- I got stuck, and a friend, when she asked if I would go for a walk with her dogs, that I said, sure.
- 我陷入了困境，一个朋友问我要不要和她去遛狗，我说好。
- And about 45 minutes later, walking along the beach, I came across this.
- 四十五分钟后，我在海滩上遇见了这件事。
- And it was a man, a Chinese man, and he was stacking these things, not with glue, not with anything.
- 一个男人，一个中国男人，他正堆着这些东西，没有胶水，没有任何工具。
- And I asked him, "How is it possible to do this?"
- 我问他：“这怎么可能？”
- And he said, "Well, I guess with everything in life, there's a place of balance."
- 他说：“世间每件事都有一个平衡点。”
- And this was exactly the meaning of my story at that point.
- 那便是我故事里所要讲的重点。
- I had so many examples -- I have so many instances like this, when I'm writing a story, and I cannot explain it.
- 在我的写作过程中，这样的事时常发生，我无法解释是否因为我有一种特殊的过滤法。
- Is it because I had the filter that I have such a strong coincidence in writing about these things?
- 因为这些强烈的巧合正是我想写的事？
- Or is it a kind of serendipity that we cannot explain, like the cosmological constant?
- 或是这真是一些我们所不能解释的突发事件从天而来？
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