14、The Thirteenth Owl (From GG) 1956. ...
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September 27th, 1956
公元1956年，九月27日
Dumbledore,
邓布利多，
The peculiar thing is that you've given me no particular reason to want to help you with this Voldemort bloke. (That would be the correct British term, yes? Bloke?) It was mostly technical. Obsessed with death, that one, even for a Dark wizard. Terrified of it, even as he nursed delusions of grandeur. Unhealthy attitude. But you probably knew that already. He was not on the path of the Halloween. Probably just as well. The fewer upstarts after that sort of thing, better.
怪事在于你没有给我一个奇异的理由以令我想去帮你对付这个伏地魔小鬼。(这应该是正确的英语拼写吧？Bloke(小鬼)这个词？）我们主要谈的是技术方面的问题。他作为一个人，甚至是作为一名黑巫师也可以说对死亡有着疯狂的执念。甚至在他培育他那壮丽绚烂的臆想时，他也在恐惧着死亡。这看法可不大康健。但或许你早已知之。他还没有踏上圣器这条路。这或许挺好的。关于这种东西，探索它们的自命不凡者还是越少越好。
He was mostly on about his crackpot theory to improve the killing Curse— won't work out, I think. That and Horcruxes. Woolly business. I like all my bits in one place where they blong, and if somebody's good enough to take me out I'd rather die properly, none of this floating about half-alive nonsense.
他还常提及的是他那一套对于改进杀戮咒的不切实际的理论——我想，这实现不了的。以及魂器。这可是个很模糊的领域。我还是希望我的灵魂碎片都在一个它们应属的地方，且，如果有个足够心善的人能把我这活棺材里取出来，我倒宁可干净体面地死去，而绝无这种让自己半生半死地漂泊尘寰的荒诞之想。
I don't hate you, Albus. I never have, and at this point there's nothing worse you can do to me, so I never will. That's the problem.
我不恨你，阿不思。我从来没有恨过你，且今生至此，你也无法再在我心上添一道更深的裂缝了，故我以后也不会了。这却为问题所在。
P. S. Getrude says," And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself."
又及：格特鲁德云：“且保持个性就是个笑话而你除非能谨记自己的身份就永远不会是你自己所以做你自己也是个笑话故接下来你自然亦无法相信你自己了。”
译者注：
最后格特鲁德的那段话由于没有读《每个人的自传》是自译的，而格特鲁德又不喜欢用逗号我只能按自己的理解断句，出入可能会比较大。
附上我理解的断句：
"And identity is funny /being yourself is funny /as you are never yourself to yourself /except you remember yourself /and then of course you do not believe yourself."
“且保持个性就是个笑话/ 而你除非能谨记自己的身份就永远不会是你自己/ 所以做你自己也是个笑话/ 故接下来你自然亦无法相信你自己了。”
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第14章 The Thirteenth Owl (From GG)
