This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times. The punch line? "On the other hand, I don't have to get up at four every single morning to milk my Labrador." This is a recent cover of New York Magazine. Best hospitals where doctors say they would go for cancer treatment, births, strokes, heart disease, hip replacements, 4 a.m. emergencies. And this is a song medley I put together --
Ovo je nedavni strip iz Los Anđeles Tajmsa. Poenta priče? "Sa druge strane, ne moram da ustanem svakog jutra u 4 da nahranim svog labradora." Ovo je nedavna naslovna strana Nju Jork Magazina (New York Magazine). Najbolje bolnice gde bi se doktori latili hemoterapije, porođaja, moždanog udara, srčanih bolesti, operacije kuka, hitnih slučajeva u 4 ujutru. A ovo je miks pesama koji sam sastavio -
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Did you ever notice that four in the morning has become some sort of meme or shorthand? It means something like you are awake at the worst possible hour.
Da li ste ikada primetili da je 4 ujutru postalo neka vrsta skraćenice ili kratke ideje? Kao da ste budni u najgori mogući čas.
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A time for inconveniences, mishaps, yearnings. A time for plotting to whack the chief of police, like in this classic scene from "The Godfather." Coppola's script describes these guys as, "exhausted in shirt sleeves. It is four in the morning."
Vreme za neprijatnosti, nezgode, čežnje. Vreme kad planirate da koknete šefa policije, kao u klasičnoj sceni iz "Kuma". Kopolin scenario kaže da su ovi momci "iscrpljeni u majicama kratkih rukava. 4 je sata ujutro."
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A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits." After the breathtaking green-haired Rosa is murdered, the doctors preserve her with unguents and morticians' paste. They worked until four o'clock in the morning.
Vreme za još grozomornije stvari od ove, kao što su autopsije ili balsamovanje u "Kući duhova" Izabele Alende. Nakon što je prelepa zelenokosa Rosa ubijena, lekari su je premazali mašću i pogrebnikovom pastom. Radili su do 4 ujutru.
A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like in last April's New Yorker magazine. This short fiction piece by Martin Amis starts out, "On September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine, and Mohamed Atta's last day began." For a time that I find to be the most placid and uneventful hour of the day, four in the morning sure gets an awful lot of bad press --
Vreme za čak tmurnije stvari i od ovih, poput one u prošlom aprilskom broju Nju Jork magazina, kratka priča Martina Amisa (Martin Amis) počinje ovako, "11. septembra 2001., Muhamed Ata, otvorio je oči u 4 ujutru, u Portlandu u Mejnu, (Portland, Maine) i poslednji dan njegovog života je počeo." Za vreme dana za koje mislim da je najmirnije i s najmanje događaja, 4 sata ujutru itekako dobija užasno mnogo lošeg publiciteta -
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across a lot of different media from a lot of big names. And it made me suspicious. I figured, surely some of the most creative artistic minds in the world, really, aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope like they invented it, right? Could it be there is something more going on here? Something deliberate, something secret, and who got the four in the morning bad rap ball rolling anyway? I say this guy -- Alberto Giacometti, shown here with some of his sculptures on the Swiss 100 franc note. He did it with this famous piece from the New York Museum of Modern Art. Its title -- "The Palace at Four in the Morning --
preko mnogo različith medija i mnogo velikih imena. Pa sam počeo da sumnjam. Pomislio sam, verovatno da veći deo kreativnih umova na svetu, ne koristi ovaj laki motiv kao da je njihov lični, zar ne? Da li je moguće da tu ima nešto više? Nešto namerno, nešto tajno. I ko je uopšte prvi oklevetao "4 sata ujutru"? Ja mislim ovaj tip - Alberto Điakometi, ovde prikazan sa nekim od njegovih skulptura na švajcarskoj novčanici od 100 franaka. Uradio je to svojim poznatim delom iz Njujorškog Muzeja Moderne Umetnosti. Naziv - "Dvorac u 4 ujutru -
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1932. Not just the earliest cryptic reference to four in the morning I can find. I believe that this so-called first surrealist sculpture may provide an incredible key to virtually every artistic depiction of four in the morning to follow it. I call this The Giacometti Code, a TED exclusive. No, feel free to follow along on your Blackberries or your iPhones if you've got them.
1932. Ne samo da je najraniji zagonetni zapis o 4 sata ujutru koji sam mogao da nađem. Verujem da ova navodno prva nadrealistička skulptura može da da rešenje za otkrivanje skoro svakog umetničkog opisa 4 sata ujutru koji je usledio. Ja ovo zovem Điakometi Kod, ekskluzivno za TED. Ne, slobodno ispratite ovo na svom blekberiju (Blackberry) ili ajfonu (iPhone), ako ih imate.
It works a little something like -- this is a recent Google search for four in the morning. Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical. The top 10 results yield you four hits for Faron Young's song, "It's Four in the Morning," three hits for Judi Dench's film, "Four in the Morning," one hit for Wislawa Szymborska's poem, "Four in the Morning." But what, you may ask, do a Polish poet, a British Dame, a country music hall of famer all have in common besides this totally excellent Google ranking?
Ide nekako ovako - ovo je nedavna gugl (Google) pretraga na temu 4 sata ujutru. Rezultati variraju, naravno. Ovo je tipično. Prvih 10 rezultata daće vam četiri pogotka za pesmu Farona Janga (Faron Young) " 4 je sata ujutru," tri pogotka za film Džudi Denč (Judi Dench) " 4 sata ujutru," jedan pogodak za pesmu Vislave Zimborske, "4 sata ujutru." Ali šta, možete se zapitati, poljska pesnikinja, britanska dama, i poznati kantri muzičar mogu imati zajedničko osim ovog potpuno fenomenalnog gugl rasporeda?
Well, let's start with Faron Young -- who was born incidentally in 1932.
Pa, počnimo sa Faron Jangom - koji je rođen, sasvim slučajno, 1932.
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In 1996, he shot himself in the head on December ninth -- which incidentally is Judi Dench's birthday.
Pucao je sebi u glavu, decembra devetog 1996. - na dan koji je sasvim slučajno rođendan Džudi Denč.
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But he didn't die on Dench's birthday. He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed to a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 64 -- which incidentally is how old Alberto Giacometti was when he died.
Ali on nije umro na njen rođendan. Patio se do sledećeg popodneva kada je konačno podlegao rani koju je navodno sebi naneo hicem iz pištolja u 64. godini - toliko je, sasvim slučajno imao Alberto Điakometi kada je umro.
Where was Wislawa Szymborska during all this? She has the world's most absolutely watertight alibi. On that very day, December 10, 1996 while Mr. Four in the Morning, Faron Young, was giving up the ghost in Nashville, Tennessee, Ms. Four in the Morning -- or one of them anyway -- Wislawa Szymborska was in Stockholm, Sweden, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. 100 years to the day after the death of Alfred Nobel himself. Coincidence? No, it's creepy.
A gde je bila Vislava Zimborska za vreme svega ovoga? Ona ima najčvršći alibi na čitavom svetu. Tačno tog dana, 10. decembra 1996., dok je gospodin Četiri-sata-ujutru, Faron Jang, napuštao svet u Nešvilu, Tenesi, G-đica Četiri-sata-ujutru - ili bar jedna od njih - Vislava Zimborska bila je u Stokholmu, u Švedskoj, prihvatala Nobelovu Nagradu za književnost tačno 100 godina nakon smrti samog Alfreda Nobela. Slučajnost? Ne, jezivo je.
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Coincidence to me has a much simpler metric. That's like me telling you, "Hey, you know the Nobel Prize was established in 1901, which coincidentally is the same year Alberto Giacometti was born?" No, not everything fits so tidily into the paradigm, but that does not mean there's not something going on at the highest possible levels. In fact there are people in this room who may not want me to show you this clip we're about to see.
Magija slučajnosti je za mene mnogo jednostavnija. To je kao kad vam ja kažem, "Hej, znate Nobelova nagrada je osnovana 1901., što je sasvim slučajno ista godina kad je Alberto Điakometi rođen?" Ne, ne uklapa se sve tako savršeno u ovu paradigmu, ali to ne znači da se nešto ne dešava na najvišim mogućim nivoima. Ustvari u ovoj sobi ima ljudi koji možda ne žele da vam prikažem ovaj snimak koji ćemo upravo videti.
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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, your guy will fry them up?
Snimak: Imamo teniski teren, bazen, sobu za nadzor - Mislite, ako ja poželim svinjske odreske, čak i usred noći, vaš čovek će ih ispeći?
Herbert Powell: Sure, that's what he's paid for. Now do you need towels, laundry, maids?
Naravno, za to je plaćen. 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. It is Christmas Day, 4 a.m. There's a rumble in my stomach.
Ček', ček', ček', ček', ček', ček' - da vidim da li sam dobro razumeo. Božić je, 4 je sata ujutru. Moj stomak zavija.
Marge Simpson: Homer, please.
Homere, molim te.
Rives: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me see if I got this straight, Matt.
Ček', ček', ček', ček', ček', ček', ček'. Da vidim da li sam dobro razumeo, Met.
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When Homer Simpson needs to imagine the most remote possible moment of not just the clock, but the whole freaking calendar, he comes up with 0400 on the birthday of the Baby Jesus. And no, I don't know how it works into the whole puzzling scheme of things, but obviously I know a coded message when I see one.
Kada Homer Simpson treba da zamisli najužasniji mogući trenutak i to ne samo kad je sat u pitanju već čitava godina, za njega je to 4 sata ujutru na dan rođenja Isusa. I ne, ne znam kako se to uklapa u ovu zagonetnu šemu stvari, ali očigledno, prepoznajem šifrovanu poruku, kada je vidim.
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I said, I know a coded message when I see one. And folks, you can buy a copy of Bill Clinton's "My Life" from the bookstore here at TED. Parse it cover to cover for whatever hidden references you want. Or you can go to the Random House website where there is this excerpt. And how far down into it you figure we'll have to scroll to get to the golden ticket? Would you believe about a dozen paragraphs? This is page 474 on your paperbacks if you're following along: "Though it was getting better, I still wasn't satisfied with the inaugural address. My speechwriters must have been tearing their hair out because as we worked between one and four in the morning on Inauguration Day, I was still changing it."
Kažem, prepoznajem skrivenu poruku kada je vidim. I ljudi, možete da kupite primerak Bil Klintonove knjige "Moj život " ovde u TED knjižari. Analizirati je od korice do korice u potrazi za skrivenim motivima. Ili da posetite internet stranicu "Random House" gde je ovaj odlomak. I šta mislite koliko duboko ćemo morati da kopamo da bismo našli odgovor? Oko dvanaest pasusa, ako možete da poverujete? Ovo je 474. strana u vašim knjigama, ako pratite: "Iako je napredovao, i dalje nisam bio zadovoljan sa inauguracijskim govorom. Moji pisci govora mora da su čupali kose sa glava jer dok smo radili između jedan i četiri ujutru na dan Inaguracije, ja i dalje nisam bio zadovoljan."
Sure you were, because you've prepared your entire life for this historic quadrennial event that just sort of sneaks up on you. And then --
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three paragraphs later we get this little beauty: "We went back to Blair House to look at the speech for the last time. It had gotten a lot better since 4 a.m." Well, how could it have? By his own writing, this man was either asleep, at a prayer meeting with Al and Tipper or learning how to launch a nuclear missile out of a suitcase. What happens to American presidents at 0400 on inauguration day? What happened to William Jefferson Clinton? We might not ever know. And I noticed, he's not exactly around here today to face any tough questions.
tri pasusa kasnije dobijamo ovu lepotu: "Otišli smo nazad do Blerove kuće da poslednji put pregledamo govor. Mnogo se poboljšao od 4 ujutru." Kako je to moguće? Prema njegovom sopstvenom pisanju, čovek je ili spavao, bio na molitvenom sastanku sa Alom i Tiperom ili je učio kako da lansira nuklerani projektil iz aktovke. Šta se dešava sa američkim predsednicima u 4 ujutru na dan inaguracije? Šta se desilo Vilijamu Džefersonu Klintonu? Možda nikada nećemo saznati. I koliko sam primetio, on nije ovde da odgovori na ova teška pitanja.
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It could get awkward, right? I mean after all, this whole business happened on his watch. But if he were here --
Moglo bi da postane neprijatno, je l'? Mislim, ipak, sve ovo desilo se na njegovoj straži. Ali da je on ovde -
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he might remind us, as he does in the wrap-up to his fine autobiography, that on this day Bill Clinton began a journey -- a journey that saw him go on to become the first Democrat president elected to two consecutive terms in decades. In generations. The first since this man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who began his own unprecedented journey way back at his own first election, way back in a simpler time, way back in 1932 -- (Laughter)
mogao bi da nas podseti, kao što to čini u svojoj autobiografiji da je toga dana, Bil Klinton krenuo na putovanje - putovanje kojim je postao prvi demokratksi predsednik izabran u dva mandata u poslednjih nekoliko decenija. Generacija. Prvi posle ovog čoveka, Frenklina Delano Ruzvelta, koji je započeo svoj put bez presedana još davno, kada je prvi put izabran, davno u jednostavnija vremena, davne 1932. - (smeh)
the year Alberto Giacometti
godine kada je Alberto Điakometi
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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.
napravio "Dvorac u 4 ujutru." Godine, da vas podsetim, kada je ovaj, sad minuo glas, prvi put zaplakao na ovom našem ludom svetu.
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