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著作権の関係でファンのみの公開となります。 "Monsieur Louis Ferrat, good afternoon," Hannibal said. "Monsieur Ferrat has stepped away from his cell," Ferrat said. "I represent him. What do you want?" Hannibal took in the clothing without moving his eyes. "I want to ask him to make a gift of his body to the medical school, for science. It will be treated with great respect." "You'll take his body anyway. Drag it away." "I can't and I wouldn't take his body without his permission. Or ever drag it." "Ah, here is my client now," Ferrat said. He turned away from Hannibal and conferred quietly with the clothing as though it had just walked into the cell and seated itself in the chair. Ferrat returned to the bars. |
著作権の関係でファンのみの公開となります。
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(2511)
"He wants to know why should he give it to you?"
「どうして死体をあんたに渡さなきゃいけないのか、知りたがってるんだがね、彼は」
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(2512)
"Fifteen thousand francs for his relatives."
「お身内の方に一万五千フランの礼金が渡る決まりです』
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(2513)
Ferrat turned to the clothing and then back to Hannibal.
フェラは椅子の服のほうを向いてから、またハンニバルに向き直った。
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(2514)
"Monsieur Ferrat says, Fuck my relatives. They hold out their hand and I'll shit in it."
「ムッシュー・フェラはこう言ってるよ。 『身内の者なんか、くそ食らえ。 やつらが手を差し出したら、俺はそこに糞をたれてやる』」
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(2515)
Ferrat dropped his voice.
そこで声を落とすと、フェラは続けた。
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(2516)
"Forgive the language he is distraught, and the gravity of the matter requires me to quote him exactly."
「口の悪さは勘弁してくれ。 なにせ彼はいま、すっかり取り乱しているんでな。 こちらとしても、事の重大さを思うと、彼の言ったことを正確に伝えなきゃならないんで」
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(2517)
"I understand perfectly," Hannibal said.
「ええ、そうでしょうとも」とハンニバルは言った。
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(2518)
"Do you think he'd like to contribute the fee to a cause his family despises, would that be a satisfaction to him, Monsieur … ?"
「では、彼としては、お身内の方が軽蔑するような対象に礼金を寄付なさるお積りですかね。 そのほうが、彼としては満足が行くのでしょうか、ええと、お名前は ----?」
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(2519)
"You may call me Louis --- Monsieur Ferrat and I share the same first name. No. I believe he is adamant. Monsieur Ferrat lives somewhat apart from himself. He says he has very little influence on himself."
「私なら、ルイと呼んでくれ。 ムッシュー・フェラとは、同じ名前なんだよ。 いや。彼はそもそも献体そのものに反対なんだ。 ムッシュー・フェラはいま、彼の肉体から遊離して生きている。 自分の身体は殆んどコントロールできないそうだ」
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"I see. He is not alone in that."
「なるほど。そういう人は彼だけじゃありませんよね」
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著作権の関係でファンのみの公開となります。 "I hardly see how you understand anything, you're not much more than a chi --- not much more than a schoolboy yourself." "You might help me then. Each student at the medical school writes a personal letter of appreciation to the donor with whom he is involved. Knowing Monsieur Ferrat as you do, could you help me compose a letter of appreciation? Just in case he should decide favorably?" Ferrat rubbed his face. His fingers appeared to have an extra set of knuckles where they had been broken and badly set years ago. "Who would ever read it, other than Monsieur Ferrat himself?" "It would be posted at the school, if he wishes. All the faculty would see it, prominent and influential people. He could submit it to Le Canard Enchaine for publication." "What sort of thing would you want to say?" "I'd describe him as selfless, cite his contribution to science, to the French people, to medical advances that will help the oncoming generation of children." "Never mind children. Leave children out." |
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著作権の関係でファンのみの公開となります。
JASRAC許諾番号:9008249113Y38200
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(2541)
"He saved downed airmen, I would imagine?"
「撃墜された飛行機のパイロットを救出したりもしたんでしょうね?」
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(2542)
"On a number of occasions."
「そりゃあ、何度もな」
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(2543)
"Performed the customary acts of sabotage?"
「当然、お決まりの破壊活動なんかも行なった、と?」
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(2544)
"Often, and without regard for his own safety."
「頻繁にな、命の危険もかえりみずに」
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(2545)
"Tried to protect the Jews?"
「ユダヤ人なんかも守ろうとした?」
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(2546)
Quarter-second hitch.
四分の一秒ほどの逡巡。
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(2547)
"Heedless of risk to himself"
「そうさ、自分がどうなろうとかまわなかったんだ」
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(2548)
"Was tortured perhaps, he suffered broken fingers for the sake of France?"
「じゃあ、敵に捕まって拷問されたりもしたんでしょう。 フランスのために、指を折られたりとか?」
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(2549)
"He could still use them to salute proudly when Le Grand Charles returned," Ferrat said.
「しかし、ド・ゴール将軍が帰国したときには、その指で誇らしげに敬礼することができたんだぜ」
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Hannibal finished scribbling.
ハンニバルはメモを終えた。
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著作権の関係でファンのみの公開となります。 "I've just listed the highlights here, do you think you could show it to him?" Ferrat looked over the sheet of notebook paper, touching each point with his forefinger, nodding, murmuring to himself. "You might put in a few testimonials from his friends in the Resistance, I could supply those. A moment please." Ferrat turned his back to Hannibal and leaned close to his clothing. He turned back with a decision. "My client's response is: Merde. Tell the young fucker I'll see the dope and rub it on my gums first before I sign. Pardon, but that is verbatim literatim." Ferrat became confidential, leaning close to the bars. "Others on the tier told him he could get enough laudanum-enough laudanum to be indifferent to the knife. `To dream and not to scream' is how I'd couch it in a courtroom setting. The St. Pierre medical school is giving laudanum in exchange for … permission. Do you give laudanum?" "I will be back to see you, with an answer for him." "I wouldn't wait too long," Ferrat said. |
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著作権の関係でファンのみの公開となります。 "Give me the consent form. Collect it when you bring the dope." Hannibal looked at Louis Ferrat, reading his face as intently as he had studied his neck, smelling the fear on him, and said, "Louis, something for your client to consider. All the wars, all the suffering and pain that happened in the centuries before his birth, before his life, how much did all that bother him?" "Not at all." ""hen why should anything after his life bother him? It is untroubled sleep. The difference is he will not wake to this." THE ORIGINAL WOOD BLOCK engravings for Vesalius' great atlas of anatomy, De Fabrica, were destroyed in Munich in World War II. For Dr. Dumas the engravings were holy relics and in his grief and anger he became inspired to compile a new atlas of anatomy. It would be the best to date in the line of atlases that succeeded Vesalius' in the four hundred years since De Fabrica. Dumas found that drawings were superior to photography in illustrating the anatomy, and essential in elucidating cloudy X-rays. |
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著作権の関係でファンのみの公開となります。 Dr. Dumas was a superior anatomist, but he was not an artist. To his great good fortune, he saw Hannibal Lecter's schoolboy drawing of a frog, followed his progress and secured for him a medical scholarship. Early evening in the laboratory. During the day, Professor Dumas had dissected the inner ear in his daily lecture, and left it to Hannibal, who now drew the cochlear bones on chalkboard at 5x enlargement. The night bell rang. Hannibal was expecting a delivery from the Fresnes firing squad. He collected a gurney and pushed it down the long corridor to the night entrance. One wheel of the gurney clicked on the stone floor and he made a mental note to fix it. Standing beside the body was Inspector Popil. Two ambulance attendants transferred the limp and leaking burden from their litter to the gurney and drove away. |
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