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Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy
Parul Sehgal: Hvalnica ljubosumju
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Kaj je ljubosumje? Kaj ga poganja in zakaj ga imamo skrivoma radi? Nobena študija še ni obdelala njegove "samotnosti, dolgotrajnosti, grozljive vznemirljivosti" - razen literature, pravi Parul Seghal. Seghalova skozi tekočo meditacijo pregleda literarna dela in pokaže, da ljubosumje ni tako zelo drugačno od iskanja znanja.
Parul Sehgal - Literary critic
Parul Sehgal is an editor for "The New York Times Book Review." Full bio
Parul Sehgal is an editor for "The New York Times Book Review." Full bio
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00:13
So when I was eight years old,
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Torej, ko sem imela osem let,
00:15
a new girl came to join the class,
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je v razred prišla nova deklica.
00:17
and she was so impressive,
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Bila je čudovita,
00:20
as the new girl always seems to be.
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kot so ponavadi vse nove deklice.
00:23
She had vast quantities of very shiny hair
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Imela je ogromno količino zelo svetlečih las
00:25
and a cute little pencil case,
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in ljubko majhno peresnico,
00:28
super strong on state capitals,
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še glavna mesta je znala na pamet,
00:32
just a great speller.
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bila je odlična v črkovanju.
00:34
And I just curdled with jealousy that year,
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Tisto leto me je zvijalo od ljubosumja,
00:39
until I hatched my devious plan.
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potem pa sem razvila svoj zlobni načrt.
00:43
So one day I stayed a little late after school,
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Nekega dne sem po pouku
malo dlje ostala v šoli
malo dlje ostala v šoli
00:47
a little too late, and I lurked in the girls' bathroom.
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in se skrila v dekliško stranišče.
00:51
When the coast was clear, I emerged,
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Ko je bil zrak čist, sem prišla ven,
00:53
crept into the classroom,
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se splazila v učilnico
00:55
and took from my teacher's desk the grade book.
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in vzela redovalnico z učiteljeve mize.
00:59
And then I did it.
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In potem sem nekaj naredila.
01:01
I fiddled with my rival's grades,
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Spremenila sem ocene svoje tekmice,
01:04
just a little, just demoted some of those A's.
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čisto malo, malo sem znižala nekaj njenih petic.
01:07
All of those A's. (Laughter)
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Pravzaprav vse petice. (Smeh).
01:10
And I got ready to return the book to the drawer,
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Skoraj sem že vrnila redovalnico v predal,
01:13
when hang on, some of my other classmates
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ampak čakaj, tudi nekateri drugi sošolci
01:16
had appallingly good grades too.
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so imeli odvratno dobre ocene.
01:20
So, in a frenzy,
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V svoji blaznosti
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I corrected everybody's marks,
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sem spremenila ocene vsem,
01:24
not imaginatively.
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a ne kar tako.
01:26
I gave everybody a row of D's
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Vsem sem dala po nekaj dvojk,
01:28
and I gave myself a row of A's,
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sebi pa nekaj petic,
01:31
just because I was there, you know, might as well.
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ker sem pač bila tam, saj veste - zakaj pa ne.
01:34
And I am still baffled by my behavior.
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Še vedno se čudim svojemu obnašanju.
01:40
I don't understand where the idea came from.
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Ne razumem, odkod sem dobila zamisel.
01:42
I don't understand why I felt so great doing it.
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Ne razumem, zakaj sem se počutila tako dobro,
ko sem to počela.
ko sem to počela.
01:45
I felt great.
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Odlično sem se počutila.
01:47
I don't understand why I was never caught.
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Ne razumem, zakaj me niso nikoli ujeli.
01:50
I mean, it should have been so blatantly obvious.
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Hočem reči, bilo je ja očitno.
01:51
I was never caught.
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Nikoli me niso ujeli.
01:52
But most of all, I am baffled by,
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Najbolj od vsega pa me čudi,
01:55
why did it bother me so much
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da me je tako motilo,
01:56
that this little girl, this tiny little girl,
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da je ta majhna deklica, ta drobcena deklica
01:58
was so good at spelling?
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tako obvladala črkovanje.
02:00
Jealousy baffles me.
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Ljubosumje me čudi.
02:02
It's so mysterious, and it's so pervasive.
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Tako skrivnostno, tako prodorno je.
02:05
We know babies suffer from jealousy.
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Vemo, da so dojenčki ljubosumni.
02:08
We know primates do. Bluebirds are actually very prone.
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Primati prav tako. Drozgi so temu zelo podvrženi.
02:11
We know that jealousy is the number one cause
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Vemo, da je ljubosumje največji vzrok
02:15
of spousal murder in the United States.
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za umore partnerjev v ZDA.
02:18
And yet, I have never read a study
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A nisem še naletela na študijo,
02:21
that can parse to me its loneliness
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ki bi razčlenila njegovo samotnost,
02:24
or its longevity or its grim thrill.
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dolgotrajnost ali grozljivo vznemirljivost.
02:29
For that, we have to go to fiction,
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Za to se moramo zateči k fikciji,
02:31
because the novel is the lab
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saj je roman laboratorij,
02:34
that has studied jealousy
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ki ljubosumje proučuje
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in every possible configuration.
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v vseh možnih oblikah.
02:37
In fact, I don't know if it's an exaggeration to say
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Pravzaprav morda ni pretirano reči,
02:41
that if we didn't have jealousy,
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da če ne bi bilo ljubosumja,
02:43
would we even have literature?
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morda sploh ne bi imeli literature?
02:45
Well no faithless Helen, no "Odyssey."
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Nobene nezveste Helene, nobene Odiseje.
02:49
No jealous king, no "Arabian Nights."
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Nobenega ljubosumnega kralja,
nobenih Arabskih noči.
nobenih Arabskih noči.
02:52
No Shakespeare.
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Nobenega Shakespeara.
02:55
There goes high school reading lists,
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Adijo gimnazijsko domače branje,
02:57
because we're losing "Sound and the Fury,"
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saj ne bi bilo romana Krik in bes,
02:59
we're losing "Gatsby," "Sun Also Rises,"
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ne bi bilo Gatsby-ja, ne romana Sonce tudi vzhaja,
03:01
we're losing "Madame Bovary," "Anna K."
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izgubili bi Gospo Bovary, Ano K.
03:05
No jealousy, no Proust. And now, I mean,
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Brez ljubosumja ne bi bilo Prousta. Saj vem,
03:08
I know it's fashionable to say that Proust
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da je moderno reči, da ima Proust
03:09
has the answers to everything,
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odgovore na vsa vprašanja,
03:11
but in the case of jealousy,
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a v primeru ljubosumja
03:14
he kind of does.
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jih nekako res ima.
03:16
This year is the centennial of his masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time,"
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Letos mineva sto let od njegove mojstrovine
V iskanju izgubljenega časa,
V iskanju izgubljenega časa,
03:20
and it's the most exhaustive study of sexual jealousy
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kar je najbolj poglobljena študija
seksualnega ljubosumja
seksualnega ljubosumja
03:24
and just regular competitiveness, my brand,
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in splošne tekmovalnosti - to je moja spretnost -
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that we can hope to have. (Laughter)
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kar bi jih sploh lahko imeli. (Smeh).
03:29
And we think about Proust, we think
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Ko pomislimo na Prousta, se spomnimo
03:32
about the sentimental bits, right?
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bolj sentimentalnih delov, kajne?
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We think about a little boy trying to get to sleep.
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Spomnimo se dečka, ki se trudi zaspati.
03:35
We think about a madeleine moistened in lavender tea.
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Pa magdalenic namočenih v sivkin čaj.
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We forget how harsh his vision was.
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Pozabimo, kako oster je bil.
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We forget how pitiless he is.
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Kako nemilosten.
03:43
I mean, these are books that Virginia Woolf said
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To so vendar knjige, za katere je
Virginia Woolf dejala,
Virginia Woolf dejala,
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were tough as cat gut.
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da so napete kot struna.
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I don't know what cat gut is,
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Ne vem, kako močne so strune,
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but let's assume it's formidable.
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a predstavljajmo si, da so izjemne.
03:53
Let's look at why they go so well together,
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Poglejmo, zakaj tako lepo gresta skupaj,
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the novel and jealousy, jealousy and Proust.
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roman in ljubosumje, ljubosumje in Proust.
04:00
Is it something as obvious as that jealousy,
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Je morda očitno, da je ljubosumje,
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which boils down into person, desire, impediment,
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ki se zreducira na osebo, poželenje, oviro,
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is such a solid narrative foundation?
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enostavno tako trdna osnova za zgodbo?
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I don't know. I think it cuts very close to the bone,
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Ne vem. Mislim, da je to blizu resnici.
04:14
because let's think about what happens
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Kaj se namreč zgodi,
04:16
when we feel jealous.
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ko smo ljuosumni?
04:17
When we feel jealous, we tell ourselves a story.
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Ko smo ljubosumni, si pripovedujemo zgodbo.
04:21
We tell ourselves a story about other people's lives,
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Zgodbo o življenju drugih ljudi,
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and these stories make us feel terrible
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zaradi česar se počutimo grozno,
04:28
because they're designed to make us feel terrible.
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saj je tak tudi namen takih zgodb.
04:31
As the teller of the tale and the audience,
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Kot pripovedovalec in občinstvo
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we know just what details to include,
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vemo, katere podrobnosti naj vključimo,
04:35
to dig that knife in. Right?
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da bi še globlje zarili nož. Mar ne?
04:39
Jealousy makes us all amateur novelists,
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Zaradi ljubosumja postanemo ljubiteljski pisatelji,
04:42
and this is something Proust understood.
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kar je Proust dobro razumel.
04:44
In the first volume, Swann's Way,
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V prvem delu, V Swannovem svetu,
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the series of books,
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ki je serija knjig,
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Swann, one of the main characters,
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Swann, eden od glavnih junakov,
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is thinking very fondly of his mistress
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ljubeče razmišlja o svoji ljubici
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and how great she is in bed,
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in o tem, kako dobra je v postelji.
04:56
and suddenly, in the course of a few sentences,
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Potem pa v nekaj povedih
04:59
and these are Proustian sentences,
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in to so Proustove povedi,
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so they're long as rivers,
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torej so dolge kot reka,
05:02
but in the course of a few sentences,
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v nekaj povedih
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he suddenly recoils and he realizes,
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spremeni pogled in ugotovi:
05:07
"Hang on, everything I love about this woman,
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"Čakaj, vse, kar ljubim na tej ženski,
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somebody else would love about this woman.
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bi lahko ljubil tudi kdo drug.
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Everything that she does that gives me pleasure
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V vsem, pri čemer z njo uživam,
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could be giving somebody else pleasure,
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bi lahko užival tudi kdo drug,
05:19
maybe right about now."
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morda prav zdaj."
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And this is the story he starts to tell himself,
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Pripovedovati si začne to zgodbo
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and from then on, Proust writes that
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in odtlej, piše Proust,
05:26
every fresh charm Swann detects in his mistress,
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vsaka nova privlačna stvar,
ki jo Swann opazi pri ljubici,
ki jo Swann opazi pri ljubici,
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he adds to his "collection of instruments
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postane del njegove "zbirke orodij
05:31
in his private torture chamber."
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v njegovi zasebni mučilnici."
05:35
Now Swann and Proust, we have to admit,
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Priznati moramo, da sta bila
tako Swann kot Proust
tako Swann kot Proust
05:37
were notoriously jealous.
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znana po ljubosumju.
05:39
You know, Proust's boyfriends would have to leave
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Proustovi ljubimci so morali zapustiti
05:41
the country if they wanted to break up with him.
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državo, če so hoteli končati razmerje z njim.
05:43
But you don't have to be that jealous
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A ni treba biti tako ljubosumen,
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to concede that it's hard work. Right?
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da bi priznali, da je to zahteven opravek. Ne?
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Jealousy is exhausting.
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Ljubosumje nas izčrpa.
05:51
It's a hungry emotion. It must be fed.
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Lačno čustvo je. Treba ga je hraniti.
05:54
And what does jealousy like?
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In kaj mu je všeč?
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Jealousy likes information.
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Podatki.
05:59
Jealousy likes details.
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Podrobnosti.
06:02
Jealousy likes the vast quantities of shiny hair,
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Velike količine svetlečih las,
06:05
the cute little pencil case.
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ljubka majhna peresnica.
06:07
Jealousy likes photos.
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Ljubosumje ima rado fotografije.
06:09
That's why Instagram is such a hit. (Laughter)
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Zato je Instagram tak hit. (Smeh)
06:12
Proust actually links the language of scholarship and jealousy.
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Proust pravzaprav poveže akademski jezik
in ljubosumje.
in ljubosumje.
06:16
When Swann is in his jealous throes,
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Ko je Swann v oklepu ljubosumja,
06:19
and suddenly he's listening at doorways
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ko naenkrat prisluškuje pri vratih,
06:21
and bribing his mistress' servants,
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ko podkupuje ljubičine služabnike,
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he defends these behaviors.
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brani svoje ravnanje.
06:24
He says, "You know, look, I know you think this is repugnant,
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Pravi:" Poglejte, vem, da mislite,
da je to odvratno,
da je to odvratno,
06:27
but it is no different
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a nič drugače ni
06:29
from interpreting an ancient text
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kot interpretirati starinsko besedilo
06:31
or looking at a monument."
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ali si ogledovati spomenik."
06:33
He says, "They are scientific investigations
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Pravi: "To so znanstvene raziskave
06:35
with real intellectual value."
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s pravo intelektualno vrednostjo."
06:38
Proust is trying to show us that jealousy
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Proust nam želi pokazati, da se ljubosumje zdi
06:40
feels intolerable and makes us look absurd,
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nevzdržno in da nas dela absurdne,
06:43
but it is, at its crux, a quest for knowledge,
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a je v svojem jedru iskanje védenja,
06:48
a quest for truth, painful truth,
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iskanje resnice, boleče resnice,
06:51
and actually, where Proust is concerned,
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in kar se tiče Prousta, pravzaprav,
06:53
the more painful the truth, the better.
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bolj boleča ko je resnica, toliko bolje.
06:56
Grief, humiliation, loss:
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Žalovanje, ponižanje, izguba.
07:01
These were the avenues to wisdom for Proust.
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To so bile Proustove poti k modrosti.
07:04
He says, "A woman whom we need,
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Dejal je: "Ženska, ki jo potrebujemo,
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who makes us suffer, elicits from us
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zaradi katere trpimo, v nas zbuja
07:11
a gamut of feelings far more profound and vital
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spekter čustev, ki so veliko globlja in bolj bistvena,
07:14
than a man of genius who interests us."
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kot bi to uspelo geniju, ki nas zanima."
07:18
Is he telling us to just go and find cruel women?
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Nam mar pravi, naj gremo iskat krute ženske?
07:21
No. I think he's trying to say
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Ne. Mislim, da hoče reči,
07:24
that jealousy reveals us to ourselves.
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da nas ljubosumje razkrije nam samim.
07:27
And does any other emotion crack us open
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Nas še kakšno drugo čustvo
07:30
in this particular way?
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odpre na tak način?
07:32
Does any other emotion reveal to us
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Ali nam kako drugo čustvo razkrije
07:34
our aggression and our hideous ambition
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lastno agresivnost in odvratno ambicijo
07:37
and our entitlement?
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ter zahtevo po tistem, kar nam po naše pripada?
07:40
Does any other emotion teach us to look
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Nas katero drugo čustvo uči gledati
07:42
with such peculiar intensity?
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s tako posebno intenzivnostjo?
07:46
Freud would write about this later.
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Freud je kasneje pisal o tem.
07:48
One day, Freud was visited
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Nekega dne ga je obiskal
07:50
by this very anxious young man who was consumed
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tesnoben mladenič, ki ga je obsedla
07:52
with the thought of his wife cheating on him.
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misel na to, da ga žena vara.
07:55
And Freud says, it's something strange about this guy,
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Freud je menil, da je na tem moškem nekaj čudnega,
07:57
because he's not looking at what his wife is doing.
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saj ni opazoval, kaj počne njegova žena.
07:59
Because she's blameless; everybody knows it.
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Bila je nedolžna, vsi so to vedeli.
08:01
The poor creature is just
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Ampak ubožico
08:02
under suspicion for no cause.
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je brez razloga sumil.
08:04
But he's looking for things that his wife is doing
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Iskal je kretnje, ki jih je delala
08:07
without noticing, unintentional behaviors.
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podzavestno, iskal je naključno obnašanje.
08:10
Is she smiling too brightly here,
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Se tu morda preveč smehlja,
08:12
or did she accidentally brush up against a man there?
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se je tam morda po nesreči dotaknila moškega?
08:15
[Freud] says that the man is becoming
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Freud meni, da je mož postal
08:18
the custodian of his wife's unconscious.
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skrbnik ženine podzavesti.
08:22
The novel is very good on this point.
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Roman je pri tem odličen.
08:24
The novel is very good at describing how jealousy
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Odlično opisuje, kako nas ljubosumje
08:27
trains us to look with intensity but not accuracy.
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nauči gledati intenzivno, a nenatančno.
08:31
In fact, the more intensely jealous we are,
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Pravzaprav bolj ko smo intenzivno ljubosumni,
08:35
the more we become residents of fantasy.
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bolj postajamo del fantazije.
08:38
And this is why, I think, jealousy doesn't
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Mislim, da nas ljubosumje zato
08:41
just provoke us to do violent things
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ne vodi samo v nasilje
08:43
or illegal things.
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ali v nelegalna dejanja.
08:45
Jealousy prompts us to behave in ways
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Ljubosumje povzroči, da se obnašamo
08:48
that are wildly inventive.
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na noro iznajdljive načine.
08:50
Now I'm thinking of myself at eight, I concede,
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Pri tem mislim nase pri osmih letih, priznam,
08:52
but I'm also thinking of this story I heard on the news.
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mislim pa tudi na zgodbo, ki sem jo našla
v novicah.
v novicah.
08:56
A 52-year-old Michigan woman was caught
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52-letno žensko iz Michigana so ujeli,
09:00
creating a fake Facebook account
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ko je ustvarila lažni profil na Facebooku,
09:03
from which she sent vile, hideous messages
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od koder je leto dni pošiljala
zlobna, grozna sporočila
zlobna, grozna sporočila
09:07
to herself for a year.
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sami sebi.
09:11
For a year. A year.
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Eno leto. Eno leto.
09:13
And she was trying to frame
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Hotela je obtožiti
09:15
her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend,
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novo punco svojega bivšega fanta.
09:17
and I have to confess when I heard this,
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Priznati moram, da ko sem to slišala,
09:21
I just reacted with admiration.
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sem jo občudovala.
09:23
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
09:24
Because, I mean, let's be real.
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Ker, hočem reči, bodimo iskreni.
09:27
What immense, if misplaced, creativity. Right?
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Kakšna neznanska, čeprav neustrezna kreativnost. Ne?
09:31
This is something from a novel.
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To je nekaj, o čemer beremo v romanu.
09:34
This is something from a Patricia Highsmith novel.
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To je nekaj iz knjig Patricie Highsmith.
09:37
Now Highsmith is a particular favorite of mine.
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Highsmithova je ena mojih najljubših.
09:39
She is the very brilliant and bizarre woman of American letters.
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Odlična in bizarna ženska ameriške literature je.
09:43
She's the author of "Strangers on a Train"
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Je avtorica Tujcev na vlaku
09:45
and "The Talented Mr. Ripley,"
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in Nadarjenega gospoda Ripleya.
09:47
books that are all about how jealousy,
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Ti knjigi prikazujeta, kako ljubosumje
09:51
it muddles our minds,
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zamegli naš razum,
09:52
and once we're in the sphere, in that realm of jealousy,
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in ko smo enkrat v sferi, v območju ljubosumja,
09:55
the membrane between what is and what could be
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lahko membrano med tem,
kar je in kar bi lahko bilo,
kar je in kar bi lahko bilo,
10:01
can be pierced in an instant.
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prebodemo v trenutku.
10:04
Take Tom Ripley, her most famous character.
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Tom Ripley, njen najslavnejši junak, recimo.
10:06
Now, Tom Ripley goes from wanting you
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Ripley gre od želje po tebi
10:09
or wanting what you have
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ali po tem, kar imaš,
10:11
to being you and having what you once had,
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do tega, da postane ti in ima, kar si nekoč imel,
10:14
and you're under the floorboards,
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ti pa si pod rušo,
10:16
he's answering to your name,
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oglaša se na tvoje ime,
10:17
he's wearing your rings,
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nosi tvoje prstane,
10:19
emptying your bank account.
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prazni tvoj bančni račun.
10:21
That's one way to go.
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To je eden od načinov.
10:23
But what do we do? We can't go the Tom Ripley route.
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Kaj lahko naredimo?
Ne moremo ponavljati za Tomom Ripleyem.
Ne moremo ponavljati za Tomom Ripleyem.
10:27
I can't give the world D's,
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Ne morem vsemu svetu dati dvojke,
10:29
as much as I would really like to, some days.
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čeprav bi si včasih zelo želela.
10:32
And it's a pity, because we live in envious times.
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Škoda, saj živimo v ljubosumnih časih.
10:35
We live in jealous times.
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Živimo v ljubosumnih časih.
10:38
I mean, we're all good citizens of social media,
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Hočem reči, vsi smo dobri državljani
družbenih medijev,
družbenih medijev,
10:40
aren't we, where the currency is envy?
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kajne, kjer je ljubosumje valuta.
10:43
Does the novel show us a way out? I'm not sure.
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Nam roman kaže izhod? Nisem prepričana.
10:48
So let's do what characters always do when they're not sure,
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Naredimo to, kar junaki naredijo, ko niso prepričani,
10:51
when they are in possession of a mystery.
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ko se znajdejo pred skrivnostjo.
10:53
Let's go to 221B Baker Street
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Gremo na Baker street 221B
10:56
and ask for Sherlock Holmes.
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in povprašajmo po Sherlocku Holmesu.
10:58
When people think of Holmes,
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Ko ljudje pomislijo na Holmesa,
11:00
they think of his nemesis being Professor Moriarty,
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se spomnijo njegovega antijunaka,
profesorja Moriartija,
profesorja Moriartija,
11:03
right, this criminal mastermind.
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njegovega genialnega kriminalca.
11:06
But I've always preferred [Inspector] Lestrade,
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A meni je ljubši inšpektor Lestrade,
11:08
who is the rat-faced head of Scotland Yard
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neprivlačni šef Scotland Yarda,
11:11
who needs Holmes desperately,
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ki Holmesa nujno potrebuje,
11:13
needs Holmes' genius, but resents him.
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potrebuje njegov razum, a ga prezira.
11:15
Oh, it's so familiar to me.
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To mi je tako znano.
11:17
So Lestrade needs his help, resents him,
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Lestrade ga potrebuje, ga prezira
11:21
and sort of seethes with bitterness over the course of the mysteries.
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in poka od zagrenjenosti pri reševanju skrivnosti.
11:24
But as they work together, something starts to change,
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Ko pa sodelujeta, se nekaj spremeni,
11:28
and finally in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,"
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in končno v Pustolovščini šestih Napoleonov,
11:31
once Holmes comes in, dazzles everybody with his solution,
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ko Holmes vstopi in vse očara s svojo rešitvijo,
11:35
Lestrade turns to Holmes and he says,
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se Lestrade obrne k njemu in reče:
11:38
"We're not jealous of you, Mr. Holmes.
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"Nismo ljubosumni na vas, g. Holmes.
11:43
We're proud of you."
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Ponosni smo na vas."
11:46
And he says that there's not a man at Scotland Yard
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Doda, da ga ni moža na Scotland Yardu,
11:48
who wouldn't want to shake Sherlock Holmes' hand.
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ki se ne bi želel rokovati s Holmesom.
11:51
It's one of the few times we see Holmes moved
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To je eden redkih trenutkov, v katerih vidimo Holmesa ganjenega,
11:54
in the mysteries, and I find it very moving,
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kar se tudi meni zdi ganljivo,
11:56
this little scene, but it's also mysterious, right?
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a ta kratek prizor je obenem tudi skrivnosten, ne?
11:59
It seems to treat jealousy
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Zdi se, da ljubosumje obravnava
12:01
as a problem of geometry, not emotion.
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kot problem geometrije, ne čustev.
12:04
You know, one minute Holmes is on the other side from Lestrade.
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Veste, v enem trenutku je Holmes nasprotje Lestrada.
12:06
The next minute they're on the same side.
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V drugem sta na isti strani.
12:08
Suddenly, Lestrade is letting himself
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Naenkrat si Lestrade dovoli
12:10
admire this mind that he's resented.
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občudovati razum, ki ga je preziral.
12:13
Could it be so simple though?
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Je lahko tako enostavno?
12:15
What if jealousy really is a matter of geometry,
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Kaj, če je ljubosumje res stvar geometrije,
12:18
just a matter of where we allow ourselves to stand
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stvar tega, kam se postavimo
12:22
in relation to another?
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glede na drugega?
12:24
Well, maybe then we wouldn't have to resent
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No, morda nam potem ni treba prezirati
12:26
somebody's excellence.
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odličnosti nekoga drugega.
12:28
We could align ourselves with it.
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Lahko se uskladimo z njo.
12:31
But I like contingency plans.
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A jaz imam rada rezervne načrte.
12:33
So while we wait for that to happen,
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Ko čakamo, da se to zgodi,
12:36
let us remember that we have fiction for consolation.
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se spomnimo, da nas lahko tolaži literatura.
12:38
Fiction alone demystifies jealousy.
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Fikcija sama odvzame skrivnostnost ljubosumju.
12:41
Fiction alone domesticates it,
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Udomači ga
12:43
invites it to the table.
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in ga povabi k mizi.
12:45
And look who it gathers:
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In glejte, kdo se zbere:
12:47
sweet Lestrade, terrifying Tom Ripley,
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nežni Lestrade, grozljivi Tom Ripley,
12:51
crazy Swann, Marcel Proust himself.
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nori Swann, sam Marcel Proust.
12:55
We are in excellent company.
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V odlični družbi smo.
12:57
Thank you.
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Hvala.
12:59
(Applause)
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(Aplavz)
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Parul Sehgal - Literary criticParul Sehgal is an editor for "The New York Times Book Review."
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