Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy: How we became sisters
佛莉絲貝爾 和 珍妮佛墨菲: 我們是如何變成姐妹的
Felice Belle consumes and creates stories to make sense of the world and her place in it. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes. Full bioJennifer Murphy - Writer, performer, private investigator
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer, performer and private investigator who spends her time solving crimes -- some real, some imagined. Full bio
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and Jennifer Murphy
和珍妮佛墨菲
from their play "Other Women,"
《其他女人》中的一段,
by Monica L. Williams,
and Jennifer Murphy.
of the rest of your life.
人生只有大概的略圖。
提錢出來,
is worth more than it will ever be.
目前的價值都比將來高。
稱你自己是「全新的」,
和一件紅色緊身T恤,
bed and breakfast hillside fire pit
and vineyard view.
眼前則是葡萄園的景。
bags of burgers.
裡面都是漢堡。
sit at the blackjack table,
但仍然坐在二十一點賭桌,
能給你一個 A 來還清債務。
and possibly a monster like Loch Ness --
可能還有一隻尼斯湖水怪──
When the dream was a notion,
where NASA tested space ships.
美國太空總署測試太空船的地方。
but it kept being delayed.
但它不斷被延後。
in a bed of wrecked strawberries.
草莓園圃的母體脫出。
took endless drives over the grapevine
展開沒有終點的旅程,
with oranges and silence,
you feared for its life.
你會為它的生命感到擔心。
on its face and crush it.
它的臉上,就能壓壞它。
to love something so much.
不敢這麼愛一樣東西。
on your neighbor's rose bushes.
玫瑰叢上而被上了手銬。
reading the "Easter Parade"
as a waitress at a restaurant
it had better things to do.
它還有更好的事可以做。
dispatch fleets of messages to God
派遣訊息艦隊給上帝,
itself known in daylight.
如何讓它自己被大家知道。
publish, get rich, publish,
in the backseats of taxis,
在計程車後座做愛,
with the truth.
the dream had you.
of its plans fell through.
it heard its name being called.
最後它聽到有人叫它的名字。
of sticking around long enough to be seen.
逗留夠久到可以被看見的奇蹟。
who've waited years for its arrival.
為它的到來等待了數年的人
don't they, your girls?
對嗎,你的女孩們?
and belief in you,
"No maps, no idea where we're headed."
cannot believe this is happening,
hallucinating with fear,
how we became sisters.
我們怎麼成為姐妹的。
Like we're a married couple.
好像我們是夫妻。
Poets Café in 1999.
Nuyorican Poets Café 劇場。
spent in the audience or on the mic.
都會在觀眾席或是台上。
about the poet who killed it.
有個詩人有超出色的表現。
on the lap of my archnemesis.
她坐在我的宿敵的腿上。
with someone you don't like?
size me up and spit me out
在我開口之前,
before I've said one word.
before investigation" comes to mind.
she believes in science and math,
with logic, like a man.
用邏輯的方式過日子。
lot of fairness and justice,
很多公平和正義,
she only plays one onstage.
她只是在台上演偵探。
I say it as a private investigator,
是以私家偵探的身份說的,
doesn't need a license.
detective work, I learned on TV.
我都是在電視上學到的喔。
in the basement of Two Boots pizzeria.
披薩店的地下室去讀詩。
we have a slice.
我們吃了一片披薩。
something I hadn't told anyone.
一件我沒告訴過任何人的事。
with Nacho Velasquez.
在雷諾待了一週。
after I was diagnosed with cancer.
我們才變成朋友的。
because my family wasn't handy.
因為我家人不方便去。
with carved faces and missing ears.
臉上開過刀或是少了耳朵。
little packets of graham crackers.
還有小包的全麥餅乾。
sweating through my dress,
there is a transit strike.
to Crown Heights
and this one is key.
而這次是最重要的一次。
no car service, no bus,
沒有公車的情況下,
just to be by my side.
只為了陪我同行。
I'm having a meltdown."
Nacho Velasquez,"
納裘維拉斯克茲上床嗎?」
around our friendship again.
我們的友誼產生信賴問題了。
and she is in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
她在貝德福德-斯泰弗森特。
and she is in Paris, writing.
而她在巴黎寫作。
sun-glassed and hoodied,
戴太陽眼鏡穿連帽衫,
to the right soundtrack.
having flashbacks to 9/11,
in the North Tower.
you are asleep and she is calling.
你在睡覺,她打電話來。
your boyfriend, the cop, got shot
說你的警察男友中槍了,
the depth and calm of a windless lake.
無風湖泊的深沉與平靜。
and remains very quiet and very kind.
始終非常安靜,非常寬容。
"Let's see each other this week,"
and talk on the phone instead."
改講電話吧。」
reminded me of you,"
of her and then you.
然後才想到你。
guided meditations again,
some spiritual-wisdom-type shit
each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
每分鐘都是個無法再次重覆的奇蹟。
with the constancy of dawn.
恆久不變並肩而戰。
JM: What's wrong with you?
珍:你有什麼毛病?
would raise their hands and say,
會舉起他們的手,說:
because she was having surgery.
因為她要動手術。
on Fulton Street.
two decades, two women, one dream.
兩個十年,兩個女人,一個夢。
and wonderfully made."
you're done with that MFA."
thank God that pesky dream is finished,
感謝老天,那麻煩的夢結束了。
to peeling potatoes and shucking corn.
when your play premieres
agrees to send out your stories.
她會歡呼和尖叫。
romantic and spiritual victories.
愛情上,以及心靈上的勝利。
of becoming when they grew up.
is poetry to the beloved.
就像天堂之於眾神。
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Felice Belle - Poet, playwright, pop culture enthusiastFelice Belle consumes and creates stories to make sense of the world and her place in it. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.
Why you should listen
Felice Belle is a poet, playwright and pop culture enthusiast. She has performed at Joe’s Pub, the Apollo Theater and the American Museum of Natural History. Belle was a featured poet at TED’s City2.0 conference and her young audiences play, Game On!, premiered at the Kennedy Center as part of the One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide festival.
Belle co-wrote and performs alongside Jennifer Murphy in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what’s fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.
Belle holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, an M.A. in Individualized Study from NYU’s Gallatin School and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Long Island University. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.
Felice Belle | Speaker | TED.com
Jennifer Murphy - Writer, performer, private investigator
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer, performer and private investigator who spends her time solving crimes -- some real, some imagined.
Why you should listen
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. A recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award honoring excellence in multicultural literature, she has performed at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Knitting Factory and The Nuyorican Poets Café, among other performance venues. Murphy also maintains a parallel career as a private investigator, specializing in online investigations and threat monitoring for high-consequence events.
Murphy co-wrote and performs alongside Felice Belle in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what's fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.
Jennifer Murphy | Speaker | TED.com