1900：That wasn't the problem. It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max. It was what I didn't see. You understand that? What I didn't see...In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end. There was no end. What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end, the end of the world.

1900：我停下来，不是因为所见，是因为所不见，你明不明白？是因为看不见的东西，连绵不绝的城市，什么都有，除了尽头。没有尽头，我看不见城市的尽头，我需要看得见世界尽头。

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Take a piano. Keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them, nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite, you are infinite. And on those keys the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by. You get me up on that gangway and you roll out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions of billions of keys that never end and that's the truth, Max, and they never end, that keyboard is infinite. If that keyboard is infinite, on that keyboard there's no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench. That's God's piano.

拿钢琴来说，键盘有始，也有终。有88个键错不了，并不是无限的，但音乐是无限的，在键盘上，奏出无限的音乐。我喜欢，我应付得来。走过跳板，前面有无数的键盘。事实如此，无穷无尽，键盘无限大。无限大的键盘，怎么奏得出音乐？那不是给凡人奏，是给上帝奏。

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Did you see the streets, just the streets? There were thousands of them! How do you do it down there, how do you choose just one? One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. All that world just weighing down on you don't even know where it comes to an end. Aren't you ever just scared of breaking you apart and just thought of it, the enormity of living in it?

你看见那街道么？只是街道，已经好几千条。上了岸，何去何从？爱一个女人，住一间屋， 买一块地，望一个景，走一条死路。太多选择，我无所适从。漫无止镜，茫茫无际，思前想后，你不怕精神崩溃？那样的日子怎么过？

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I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. And there were wishes here, but never more than fit between prow and stern. You played out your happiness but on a piano that was not infinite. I learned to live that way. Land? Land is a ship too big for me, it's a woman too beautiful, it's a voyage too long, perfume too strong. It's music I don't know how to make. I can never get off this ship. At best, I can step off my life. After all, I don't exist for anyone. You're exception, Max. You're the only one who knows I'm here. You're a minority, and you'd better get used to it. Forgive me, my friend, but I'm not getting off.

我生于船，长于船，世界千变万化，这艘船每次只载两千。既载人，也载梦想，但范围离不开船头与船尾之间。在有限的钢琴上，我自得其乐，我过惯那样的日子。陆地？对我来说，陆地是艘太大的船，是位太美的美女，是条太长的航程，是瓶太浓的香水，是篇无从弹奏的乐章。我不能舍弃这艘船，但至少可以舍弃自己的生命。反正世间没有人记得我。除了你，只有你知道我在这里。你属于少数，你最好习惯一下。朋友，原谅我，我不下船了。

“Why why why why why... I think land people waste a lot of time wondering why. Winter comes they can't wait for summer; summer comes they're living drilled of winter. That's why you're never tired of travelling, with chasing some place far away, where there's always summer. That doesn't sound like a good bet to me.”
“陆上的人喜欢寻根究底，虚度很多的光阴。冬天忧虑夏天的迟来，夏天担心冬天的将至。所以你们不停到处去追求一个遥不可及、四季如夏的地方—我并不羡慕。”