Name: 【TED】埃利夫-沙法克:小說的政治（Elif Shafak：The politics of fiction）。 (【TED】Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction (Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:26:33.000Z
Duration: 20 min 16 s

譯者: Adrienne Lin 審譯者: Geoff Chen

That's what I do in life -- telling stories,

and today I would like to tell you a few stories

But before I go there, please allow me to share with you

I will do so with the help of words, of course,

but also a geometrical shape, the circle,

Our neighborhood was full of large families,

where fathers were the heads of households,

so I grew up seeing my mother as a divorcee

a well-educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman.

受良好教育、西方思想、現代的土耳其女性

This was a woman who read coffee grounds to see the future

Each time, my grandmother would utter some words in Arabic,

每次，我祖母都會念一串阿拉伯文

as the number of warts she wanted to remove.

A week later, the patient would come back

她會用黑墨水，在花刺周圍畫圈

Now, I'm aware that I should not be saying such things

in front of an audience of scholars and scientists,

我知道我在一群學者、科學家面前

who visited my grandmother for their skin conditions,

I asked her how she did this. Was it the power of praying?

In response she said, "Yes, praying is effective,

我問祖母她怎麼做的，是因為禱告嗎？

but also beware of the power of circles."

她回答我，禱告是很有效的一種方法

From her, I learned, amongst many other things,

that if you want to destroy something in this life,

all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls.

Now we all live in some kind of a social and cultural circle.

我們都生活在某種社交、文化圈中

We're born into a certain family, nation, class.

with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,

如果我們視為理所當然的世界之間

Our friends, neighbors, colleagues, family --

if all the people in our inner circle resemble us,

我們的朋友、鄰居、同事、家人

Now one other thing women like my grandma do in Turkey

另一件像我祖母一樣的土耳其女人會做的事

or to hang them on the walls with their backs facing out.

based on the knowledge that it's not healthy

Ironically, [living in] communities of the like-minded

agnostics and believers, the rich and the poor,

不論是無神論者或信徒、窮人或有錢人

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【TED】埃利夫-沙法克:小說的政治（Elif Shafak：The politics of fiction）。 (【TED】Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction (Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction))

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