dispiriting

dimmed

3

Jack 男主角

Al 餐廳主人

Harry 老學生 爸爸殺死媽媽及姐妹

Inoperable.”

Al got lung cancer

Tuesday, September 9, 1958.

Easy, I told myself. Easy

11:58 A.M. on the morning of September ninth, 1958

see

close, but no cigar

grinned

my-balls-are-bigger-than-yours

parsimony

Oswald

Dallas

AL回到過去待了4年因為他想阻止甘迪被暗殺。他甚至曾近距離的接觸過殺手一家人

殺手叫Oswald

acronyms

”

al 曾回到過去救了一個被槍誤傷以至於需坐輪椅的女兒。但因Jack的回到過去又造成了reset

make

unpleasant

inside

這個derry就是it的德里？ 好像就是。是1958 且也有小丑

Jew

Derry wasn’t right

obdurate

you

obduracy

Bill

的妹妹被franck殺害

Frank Dunning, “a prominent member of the business community and active in many charity drives,” had arrived at the home of his estranged wife “in a state of inebriation”

8

scorcher

walk found myself standing in front of 4905

Magazine Street, where Lee and Marina Oswald would be living with their daughter, June

April 10, 1963, over half a year before Kennedy’s trip to Dallas

obdurate

固執

Oswald

要暗殺總統的人

now.”

Jack 開始了在達拉斯的日子。並且租房。但他不喜歡達拉斯

trigger

Jack出去買啤酒時看到一個男人開槍射了一個年輕妓女linda. 然後男人舉槍自盡

brand-new

oblivious

漠視

Lee

Jack號像跑去殺手家附近 殺手的媽媽好像是個緊迫釘人的怪人

Oswald

Jack

thesp

3

Jack去兼職的學校策劃了一場表演 jack也參與其中 在開演前一天主角ㄑㄩㄝˋ跑去找jack

football

Mike’s reading of Lennie had been the farthest thing in the world from funny.

best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift

head.

sob

5

Jack的戲劇大受好評 觀眾們都深受感動 包括那苛薄的足球教練

hot

Mimi去找jack 因為jack有把自己的小說給mimi看 mimi好像是學校的委員還是校長之類 總之是個有決定權的人 jack很欣賞這名尖銳又聰明的老婦女。但mimi似乎生病了

I enjoyed the stuff about the killer dressed up as a clown. Call me twisted, but I found that deliciously creepy

You were meant to teach

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.

pseudonym

匿名

But

Pseudonym. 假名
Anonymous. 匿名

Jodie was the anti-Dallas, and now one of its leading citizens was asking me to be a resident instead of a visitor

Buckwheat

Mimi希望jack能擔任正職的英文老師而不止是代課 她知道jack有當老師的天賦 不止是教的好 更是因為jack能看到學生的潛質並鼓勵發掘

Oswalds were going to arrive on the fourteenth of June, 1962.

plateau of maturity

We’re a little old for a honeymoon, but there are certain resources available south of the border that are not available in the Sixgun State. Certain experimental treatments

Mimi真的生病了 所以她決定要結婚 並去別州做實驗性的治癒 大概只剩八個月到一年

Life is too sweet to give up without a fight

pie

Jack答應當一年的全職教師因為這沒有抵觸到暗殺計畫 mimi對jack的來歷有懷疑jack盡可能的誠實 mimi還找了個新女老師要jack照顧順便想湊作堆

love at first sight

savagely

野蠻

Amberson

大家都去參加mimi的婚禮

Sadie

Topsy

Mimi想要介紹給Jack的女教師Sandie很高 高到讓Sandie有點畏懼沒自信 (因自己比一些男人還高）。雖不是一見鍾情 但jack對Sandie有很深的第一印象

Not love at first sight, I’m pretty sure of it, but I remember that first sight with surprising clarity.

I knew none of this then; all I knew on that July afternoon was that a good-looking woman with blonde hair and blue eyes had fallen into my arms

Sadie

Sandie並不是笨手笨腳 但她是個意外吸收器

As it turned out, I hadn’t lost the habit of romance at all.

Mimi在介紹sandie給jack認識時有人跌倒推到Sandie Jack扶住了Sandie ˉ（不小心扶到胸部） Jack對Sanie很有好感

conversational gambits. Then she thanked me

Mimi

七月中舉行婚禮 八月27教練來到jack家

She was one of those faculty members the kids remember long after graduation, and sometimes come back to visit when they are no longer kids.

The kind who sometimes shows up in a troubled student’s life at a critical moment and makes a critical difference.

man

Mimi在8，27過世了
Jack and samdie負責學校的追思會
Jack說mimi是那種學生畢業很久以候還是會記得的老師。有時還會回去看看她
是那種學生在面臨重大人生選擇時會想到的老師

Mimi and Deke doing the twist at a school dance

to.”

Jack and Sandie become friends

he was no longer the Yellow Card Man; now he was the Orange Card Man. You’re not supposed to be here, he had said. Who are you? What are you doing here?

JIMLA

在看足球賽時jack突然又想起黃卡人(後來變橘卡人)

marshmallows

place

Jack買竊聽器

A sweet breeze carried it across the night. A drummer was laying down an insidious off-your-seat-and-on-your-feet shuffle. I think that’s when I decided I was never going back.

Love will find a way

Candlewood Bungalows

He had all his books alphabetized, and he got very upset if you moved them around

could

簡而言之sandie的老公有強迫症

Obsessive-compulsive disorder. OCD

There was a man I was supposed to be watching for. Besides Oswald himself, that was. A man whose name also happened to be George, and who was going to become Oswald’s only friend.

That was how 1962 started for the man who called himself George Amberson.

I put the lamp on top of the bureau and plugged it in. I

solemn

Dignify. 正式

conquer

Overcome

only

Sadie開始有了疑問 jack到底事誰來自哪裡以前在做什麼

you’re not doing anything you’re ashamed of and I wouldn’t be, either

Sadie Doris Clayton, née Dunhill

Stones

Sandie生氣jack不願告訴她他的過往而趕jack走

Jack擔心sandie的丈夫會來找她

paused

Jack因為沒有poliovirus vaccine的寄路錄 新校長查了他之前任教的學校發現他的經歷都是假的也告訴了Sandie

John Clayton

Sandie,s husband

4

學期快結束了 六月八號。j租了達拉斯的房子 大家都以為他暑假去達拉斯是去寫小說的

It’s

Mike(maybe jack,s student)送jack一隻筆

inside

difference

Jack一邊在達拉斯等待一邊懷念教書的日子

real name was Jacob Epping

62

Jack臨走前還是有去找他女朋友 他告訴她自己的真名 也說他其實不是這個時代的人。但sandie不相信他。把他趕走

funeral

葬禮

It was huge and I was too nervous to be hungry—it’s not every day that a man gets to see the person who’s going to change world history

7

Jack 去機場堵oswald時遇到sandie去搭飛機。j本很想上前留住S 但他看到報紙上第一夫人的照片 想到此行的任務是來阻止甘迺迪被暗殺

animatedly

curiosity

Robert and Lee

Robert

Robert跟 lee是兄弟。lee會打老婆

He’s already paranoid, you said so in your notes. He knew the KGB and MVD were watching him in Minsk, and he’s going to be afraid that the FBI and the CIA are watching him here

obdurate

If Oswald was on his own on the night of April 10th, 1963, chances that there was another gunman involved in the Kennedy assassination seven months later drop to almost zero

treat

Sandie在當女侍 他倆仍在乎對方

place

呃 看不太懂 應是繼續跟監

2

Jack寫信給Sandie. 他還愛著她

4

Osland兄弟快搬近住處

Marguerite Oswald was one of those Americans who believe foreigners are sure to understand you if you just speak slowly . . . and very LOUDLY.

could

Jack 監視osland一家的生活

away

兇手會打老婆

Lee say no, Lee say no.’ Honey, Lee always say no, this little man been doin it all his life and it doesn’t mean a thing. Ma takes care of him

Lee的媽媽跑去他們家。lee非常不高興。但lee的媽媽覺得lee跟本不能照顧自己

10

Maria (lee的太太？）受聘於一有錢人家教他們兒子俄語

Why did Oswald blow his top at Peter Gregory’s party, offending the well-meaning expats who might otherwise have helped him? I didn’t know for sure, but I had a pretty good idea. There’s Marina, charming them all (especially the men) in her blue dress.

FBI

Jack 偷偷跑進lee的家但不小心打破一展燈。jack希望lee會覺得燈自己不穩莫名其妙的掉下來破了，但jack知道lee很偏執會懷疑有人闖入

KISS, as they say in Christy’s AA meetings; keep it simple, stupid

not?

但Jack千鈞一髮之際還是接到了燈泡

lamp

Jack持續監聽。lee 打老婆

(I not only want to kill him, I want to do it slowly

same.

15

Jake和sandie通了電話 sandie和一個搞政治的人約會 說JFK可能會和古巴打仗 (為如果JFK沒死鋪梗？)

DUPE

7

Jack 繼續跟蹤lee lee在咖啡店談論古巴的事情。一個星期後甘迺迪也談論起古巴的事

Sadie herself didn’t take it seriously; for all I knew, she thought I was trying to scare her about John Clayton in order to keep her from pushing me entirely out of her life.

shoulder

Jack開始睡不好 想念Sandie. 甘迺迪開始在電視上發表對古巴的政策。允許古巴有核子武器 並要發展相對應的武力

politico

apocalyptic

啓示性的 天啓

said

Jack不放心跑去找Sandie結果看到Sandie躺在浴室裡 吞了大量藥片和酒 但他把她救回了

After that they’ll send a man. Then they’ll send two men and a bomb.

Here

sandie 再聽到甘迺迪的演講後對未來很害怕 再加上前夫寄了一些廣島長崎原子彈受害者的照片 所以一時覺得大家都要死了 吞酒和藥想自殺， jack叫她不要相信前夫，sandie仍很害怕，因為現在連蘇聯都要加入美國對古巴的戰事，她怕美國和蘇聯會打起來，Jack憑藉自己對美國歷史的了 解，說大概再兩到三天，美國艦隊會包圍蘇聯艦隊，但不會打起來，且蘇聯會接受一個美國的新聞主播專訪。他希望sandie相信自己的話，不再對未來充滿被 誇大的恐慌和絕望。

10

他們做了 並且承認還愛著對方

headaches

床頭吵床尾合的兩人終於合好了，jack要sandie一定要小心他的神經病錢一定要小心他的神經病前夫。sandie問jack一個問題，說問完後就不會再討論，jack本已做好聽到你是不是來自未來的問題，結果sandie想問的是，你是不是外星人XD

women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them

2

新校長很怕被sandie會被騙 所以關心sandie知不知道jack的過往 sandie只說她愛jack並且信任jack

3

Sandie和jack又開始約會了，藉著感恩節，sandie把ellie請來家裡，在飯前禱告時希望Ellie和jack可以像以前一樣的保有情誼

I heard several approving comments about how Kennedy had made the bad old Russian bear back down.

taunt

嘲笑

rolled

Lee 夫妻感情依然很糟 lee仍常打老婆。有天lee夫妻就在街上吵了起來 ，太太指控他 說來美國會過好日子 但其實不然，lee在街上就打了他太太

That man is beating on that woman! Go down there and put a stop to it!

6

在lee打太太時，路邊的老太太要jack去阻止lee，jack因不想做任何可能會破壞未來的事拒絕了。Maria 離家出走投靠 George

7

Lee跑去gorge家門口想要把老婆找回來 但gorge夫婦不肯，他們在大街上吵了起來。後來lee還是沒有帶走他的老婆

kisses

後來lee跟maria又和好了

behalf

在jack看著和好的lee夫妻時，旁邊的鄰居說 他們不會永遠都這好的， 她看過lee是如何毆打自己的太太，有一天他太太會被打死的

reared its ugly head just ninety miles off the shores of Florida. He asked God to grant President Kennedy the wisdom

Walker

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

I would verify that Lee was solo when he attempted to kill General Walker,

pregnant

Lee依然打老婆。他老婆又懷孕了。jack很驚訝，因為這件事並沒有在Al的筆記裡，可能是Al不知道，也可能是Al不在意，但jack在意這件事。

anyway

Lee搬到了jack的樓上，jack已經放好監聽器的地方，jack監聽著lee

Marina separated from Lee and living with the Paine woman at the time of the Kennedy assassination.

cool

obdurate

6

Lee在家裡討論了很多政治的事，然後jack的竊聽器壞了，過去不想被改變。 lee又開始蹺班，她老婆熱衷于教俄文即學俄文的學生

Oak Lawn was the one I was most interested in, because it was going to be

Lee’s line of approach and route of escape on the night of April 10.

How many opportunities do we have, after all, to watch a guy as he goes about the business of planning a cold-blooded murder?

He

有天jack跑去跟蹤lee

10

Jake

Jack跟sandie說了自己的名字，且希望sandie之後可以嫁給他

Lee wasn’t alone on the night of April 10, I might be spotted and killed by one of his co-conspirator

I lived two lives in late 1962 and early 1963, one in Dallas and one in Jodie. They came together at 3:39 on the afternoon of April 10.

you

Maria找上jack問有沒有看過lee. 不是疑心的那種，是因為lee常失蹤迫於無太的問鄰居。sandie的前夫終於找到她住的地方

I’m going to kill one of you. The other can live. You decide which one it’s going to be.”

4

Sandie的前夫帶著刀和鎗去找她，他把sandie拘禁起來，並打給jack

I am going to kill one of you.

In one pan of the scales was a pretty high school librarian. In the other was a man who knew the future and had—theoretically, at least—the power to change it.

coat

Sandie 前夫打給jack叫他一個半鐘頭內趕到sandie住處，如果一個半小時內他沒到，或是他發現jack報警，他都會殺了sandie。他也重申了他要殺了 jack或sandie其中一個人。jack有一瞬間的猶豫，一個是漂亮的圖書館員，而另一個是知道未來會發生什麼事甚至可以改變未來的自己，他一度覺得 自己的性命比較重要，但他後來還是開車去sandie家

Fuck

6

Jack請了另一個朋友fake 一同營救Sandie

please

Jack從後門進入sandie的屋子，同時Deke在前門會分散前夫的注意力

throat . . .

一陣打鬥後，sandie受傷，jack制服前夫，前夫割喉自殺

He cut all the way through my cheek to the inside of my mouth

knew there was something not right about him. And still I went ahead. I think mostly because my mother and father wanted it so badly. They haven’t come yet, and I’m glad. Because I blame them, too. That’s awful, isn’t it?

huh

Sandie被傷得非常重，她臉上被畫了很深的一刀，不但容貌很難恢復，也傷及了顏面神經，所以會有半邊無法咀嚼等問題。醫生說以目前的醫療技術能治療的有限，他們的學生說，他們現在是1990真是太糟了，如果是在醫學更發達的二三十年後就好了

You can stay with me,” Deke said. “I have plenty of room

You can kick in for groceries. That’ll be fine.”

along

Sandie的爸媽還沒現身，sandie需要很多的醫療費用。

Baiting

Gorge 跑去lee家，好像是給了一些復活節禮物，再打開桌燈的同時，jack裝的竊聽器暫時復活了。george的太太發現lee有一把鎗，goerge把lee與支持黑人平等的General Walker被鎗傷聯想在一起

might

9

Sandie的爸媽還有前夫的爸媽來看Sandie 弄的Sandie 很沮喪

I had quite the shouting match with my mother and father.

10

Sandie的媽媽要帶她回家，Jack強力挽留Sandie 留下，他愛她，他可以照顧她，不希望sandie回去面對她刻薄又強勢的媽媽

12

It was best that those big eyes should see my car in Deke’s driveway after the sun went down.

knife

Jack 留在sandie身邊照顧她，但天黑時他總會開車到dake家，因為他不想鎮民們八卦說是非，等天更暗，他就走路回sandie家，天快亮才離 開，sandie的夢裡都是那晚可怕的片段，時常尖叫著驚醒。sandie將在8/15究受顏面重建的手術，這是個大工程，起碼要有五次手術

How can you?” she asked without opening her eyes. “It’s awful.” “Nah. It’s just another part of the you I love, Sadie

The crazy people of the world—the Johnny Claytons, the Lee Harvey Oswalds—shouldn’t get to win

2

Jack和朋友們為了籌措Sandie的醫療費，發起捐款，但他們需要sandie露面。

them

Jack他們原本想借學校的體育館進行募款，但有些董事不同意，因為在保守的1963年，董事害怕sandie的前夫死在這個小鎮的事被大幅報導後，會影響小鎮的聲譽及學校的招生率

President Kennedy promised to sign a nuclear test ban treaty and told reporters he had “no intention of allowing our military forces to be mired in the arcane politics and ancient grudges of southeast Asia.”

possible

在sandie的暮款會前，sandie跟jack說她還是不能出去面對群眾，jack獨自去了會場，開始演說，但演說突然被巨大的掌聲打斷，原來，sandie來了，出現在台上

suss

Realize

9

出現在募款會的sandie似乎漸漸的恢復(心靈上的)

That it was time to stop feeling sorry for myself and rejoin the parade

fell

Jack問Sandie 如果他可以帶她去一個醫療更先進的地方治療臉部，但他們倆都不可以再回這裡！她是否願意，sandie意識到了一些事情，問jack是否來自未來，jack承認了，並且告訴sandie搭來這的目的:要阻止甘迺迪被暗殺

I majored in English, not American History. I studied Maine history in high school

Because no matter where you came from, there’s no future for me without you.

I wanted to be with her, yes. For as close to forever as people get.

But

這句超感人啊

I would never beat her or shout at her—no, not Sadie—but she might still become my Marina Prusakova, living in a strange place and exiled from her homeland forever.

13

unease

Jack深愛著sandie 他希望將sandie帶回2012年接受醫療 但他很怕sandie變成lee的太太，雖然他絕不會像lee一定打或對著太太咆哮，但sandie可能會像Maria 一樣，生活在一個陌生的地方，永遠無法回家。

Tom Case was going to be the upset winner, knocking out Dick Tiger in the fifth.

thing.

因為sandie龐大的醫藥費，jack靠著AL的筆記去賭錢

indiscreet

Scaring people is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

Because the past doesn’t want to be

changed. It fights back when you try. And the bigger the potential change, the harder it fights.

9

Sandie問jack為何不報警，但jack不想冒險打草驚蛇，

All at once this had stopped being just a payday to Tom Case.

The two of them simply stood toe-to-toe, slugging each other in the face, the chest, the shoulders, the g

It’s not hate,” I said. “What I feel about him is . .

Sorrow for a spoiled life. But you can feel sorry for a good dog that goes rabid, too. That doesn’t stop you from putting him down.

I now had every intention of killing him, and as soon after he returned to Dallas as I possibly could. In the meantime, I didn’t want to leave a trace of George Amberson behind.

maybe

16

gone

Jack因為賭得太準被組頭盯上並痛打一頓

You’re basically all right. Probably better than Dick Tiger is this morning

I turned over. It took the last of my strength, but I managed. Towering above me was the elderly woman who’d called me a coward when I refused to step in between Lee and Marina on The Day of the Zipper.

me

Jack很努力地走出門，他漸漸的快要昏倒了，在他快要失去意識時，有個老太太看到他並問他怎麼了，是那個當初因為他不願意在街頭介入lee的吵架時罵他懦夫的太太，他昏倒前請太太幫他叫救護車

Time-travel is full of ironies.

The doctor who treated me there was Malcolm Perry, who would later treat both John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald as they lay dying.

Ago

Jack被打得超級慘，動了多次手術並且有記憶問題

Mr. Jake George Puddentane Epping-Amberson spent seven weeks in Parkland before being moved to a rehab center—a little housing complex for sick people—on the north side of Dallas.

Jack花了七個星期才從醫院離開到療養中心修養

That was the outside life of Jake Epping, a man who had been beaten badly, then nearly died in the hospital. My inside life was blackness, voices, and flashes of understanding that were like lightning

Then

amnesia

失憶

narcolepsy

催眠

The Yellow Card Man’s the personification of the obdurate past

And

Jack 被打得很慘，經過好幾場手術才勉強脫離危險，但後來又有感染，身體漸漸恢復時卻有記憶障礙。最糟的時候他連sandie都不記得 ，當他想要回想誰是殺了甘迺迪的兇手時他會突然地昏睡過去，sandie問他她不能阻止殺手嗎？jack說只有他自己可以，因為他是來自未來的人。但他還 是慢慢地記起了一些事情。有天他夢到al，al 說yellow card man以為jack會死於打鬥，但他活了下來，也從感染中恢復，現在yellow card man唯一能阻止jack改變歷史的方式就是阻止他恢復記憶，al 說只有jack可以幫助自己恢復記憶，只要jack拒絕被黃卡人屏蔽記憶，jack在夢中要al告訴他到底兇手是誰，此時卻被變成黑卡人的黃卡人阻止

Kennedy’s coming in ten days and I can’t even remember that old guy’s fucking name

he’s doing as well as anyone could expect, given the complexities.”

“I just wanted to tell you something,” I said. “I wanted to tell you you’re the best damned thing that ever happened to me.”

Mr. George Amberson of Jodie, beaten and mugged, found unconscious, taken to Parkland Hospital.

Lee Harvey Oswald.

Jack終於想起是誰要暗殺甘迺迪了

I had the glimmerings of a plan that might allow me to stop Oswald without going to prison or the electric chair in Huntsville

absurd. The man in the sixth-floor window of the Book Depository

11:55 AM: O assembles & loads Mann-Carc. 12:29 PM: Motorcade arrives Dealey Plaza. 12:30 PM: O shoots 3 times. 3rd shot kills JFK

Sane men will often take a hint

Crazy men rarely do

If I killed him before the twenty-second, Kennedy would be saved but I’d almost certainly wind up in jail or a psychiatric hospital for twenty or thirty years. But if I killed him on the twenty-second? Perhaps as he assembled his rifle?

asleep

11/20/63 jack用計住入lee的家

No sudden sleeps today, I thought. That will happen tomorrow. When the critical moment comes,

It could happen. I knew it could. If it did, I’d have a decision to make: find Sadie and marry her, or go back and start all over again

The worst thing is the way you have of falling suddenly asleep

ultimatum

Sandi找到了jack並堅持要跟他一起阻止甘迺迪被暗殺

rubella

Everything’s against us,” she said. “Isn’t it?” I glanced at her and said, “Now you understand.”

9

諸事不順，整個世界都在阻撓他們阻止甘迺迪被暗殺

Lee

經過數十頁的阻撓（我都沒認真看）jack and sandie在千鈞一髮之際闖進了lee埋伏的房間

I fired. My shot went high and only exploded splinters from the top of the window frame, but it was enough to save John Kennedy’s life.

Oswald jerked at the sound of the report, and the

160-grain slug from the Mannlicher-Carcano went high, shattering a window in the county courthouse

Jack 朝著lee開槍，雖然沒有打中lee,但足以使lee的子彈打偏，就了甘迺迪的命

done

Lee 死了，sandi也死了

It was dead-center in her chest

I risked my life to save the president, and my fiancée gave hers, so I think I have a right to ask questions

What might have happened was you and your girl were in on it with Oswald. And maybe at the end you got cold feet.”

The FBI kept an eye on him because he defected to Russia, redefected to the United States, then tried to defect to Cuba. He was handing out pro-Fidel leaflets on street corners for months before this horror show today.

The lady had blood everywhere!” I shouted. “On her clothes, on her shoes, in her purse! The son of a bitch shot her in the chest, or didn’t you notice

So he did call the police. Not just once but several times. Each time, the cop who took his call told him to stop bullshitting and hung up. I don’t know if anyone bothered to make a record of those calls, but Deke will tell you, and he has no reason to lie

after

Jack被拘留，警探們懷疑他和sandie可能是lee的幫手只是臨陣反悔，jack就義真亦假的編了他如何遇到lee 發現lee的異常，還提到了deke和sandie其實都報警過但警察都不認真受理所以jack只好自己來

Mister Amberson? Jack Kennedy here. I . . . ah . . . understand that my wife and I owe you . . . ah . . . our lives. I also understand that you lost someone very dear to you

The President of the United States had called from Austin to thank me for saving his life, and I was safe. I could do what I needed to do.

But she died doing the right thing. That’s what I’m going to hold onto. It’s what you have to hold onto, as well

Dallas loves you, Amberson. Hell, the whole country loves you.

Mr. Amberson . . .” The first lady began to cry. “I wanted to thank you on behalf of our children, who were able to say goodnight to their mother and dad on the phone tonight.”

She truly seemed to understand what a narrow escape they’d had

You and Al spouted a lot of noble talk about saving thousands of lives in Vietnam, but this is your first real contribution to the New History: seven thousand dead in LA.

Who are you?” I asked. “And why do you call me Jimla? Jim LaDue is a long way from here, mister.”

After two or three days, almost all the carbonation is gone, but there are still a few bubbles left. What you call the rabbit-hole isn’t a hole at all. It’s a bubble. As far as guarding . . . no. Not really. It would be nice, but there’s very little we could do that wouldn’t make things worse. That’s the trouble with traveling in time, Jimla.

And what did he tell you? Each trip was the first time?” “Yes. A complete reset.”

Each trip creates its own string, and when you have enough strings, they always get snarled.

So every trip isn’t a complete reset.” “Yes and no. It leaves residue

Buying meat over and over again in 1958 wasn’t so bad,” Zack Lang said. “Oh, it was causing trouble down the line, but it was bearable. Then the big changes started. Saving Kennedy was the biggest of all.”

You need to go back and see exactly what you’ve done. What all your hard and no doubt well-meaning work has accomplished.”

Lang! The harmonies . . . I caused them all. Didn’t I?” He might have nodded. I’m not sure.

On the June night when I’d left on my five-year mission to save Kennedy, the temperature had been pleasantly mild. Now it was beastly hot.

How long has Maine been a part of Canada?

Since 2005.

Poppers are earth tremors.

four of the Japanese islands are gone

Three were small ones, but Hokkaido’s gone, too. Dropped into the goddam ocean four years ago like it was on an elevator.

Spewed radiation all over New England and southern Quebec.”

1999

Kennedy expected to sweep Barry Goldwater away in a landslide in ’64

3

一整段在講甘迺迪沒死以後的事

troops

軍人

man who’d gotten me into this was paralyzed in a helicopter crash on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier. Public opinion began to swing heavily against JFK.

in

人權的那個Martin king被暗殺，殺手說是胡佛下令的，美國陷入一片混亂

Hanoi became a radioactive cloud on August ninth, 1969, twenty-four years to the day after Harry Truman dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki.

wrong

George wallace成為下一任總統，並在廣島長邔的核爆24年後再度在hanoi(越南首都）丟下了核子彈

Maryland

George聲稱越南是罪有應得，大部分的美國人都贊成，但還是有一些人不贊成，所以在1972 ，Arthur Bremer暗殺了當時的總統gorge

Hubert Humphrey became president in ’72.

The world suicide rate skyrocketed

The

1972Hubert Humphrey當總統，有更多核戰

Some group—probably exiled Russian hard-line fanatics—began selling nuclear weapons to terrorist groups, including The Base.

ten thousand people have died of radiation poisoning.

Maine voted to become a part of Canada, and President Clinton was happy to say good riddance.

Gosh, no. He was a shoo-in for the ’04 nomination, but he died of a heart attack at the convention. His wife stepped in. She’s president.”

1994年緬因投票要脫離美國成為加拿大的一省，柯林頓總統欣然同意，不是我們知道的那個柯林頓，他已經死于心臟病，當總統的是她太太

that

而且一直有地震

gaped

40
28+48=76

We’re no longer going to be thirty-five and twenty-eight; this time I’d be forty-two or-three.

We’ll live quietly. We won’t make waves. Only each child is a wave. Every breath we take is a wave.

Can I really be thinking of risking the world—perhaps reality itself—for the woman I love?

You never knew me, but I love you, honey.

嗚，超級感人啊！回到過去要reset的jack原本想要寫信給dake希望他可以多照顧sandie，但綠卡人告訴他如果sandie註定要被前夫殺害，jack的介入會改變歷史造成未知的後果，jack只好忍痛什麼都不做

Someone you knew in another life, honey.

If Deke and Ellie hadn’t arrived when they did, Miss Dunhill almost certainly would have been killed

Deke還是救了Sandie

That night I cried myself to sleep, and for the first time in a very long time, my sleep was deep and restful. Alive. She was alive. Scarred for life—oh yes, undoubtedly—but alive. Alive, alive, alive.

she was eighty

She never remarried. She never left Jodie. She’s still tall, her body unbent by osteoporosis. And she’s still beautiful, her long white hair flowing down her back almost to her waist.

Mr. Amberson, where do I know you from? Because I do know you, I’m sure of it.

She takes my hand like a woman in a dream. She is in a dream, and so am I. Like all sweet dream

Then the music takes us, the music rolls away the years, and we dance