Nobody's Return
Thirteen-part performance monologue · Final Chinese text / editorial English translation
01
中文原稿
回来。
……回
来过。
鞋底还是湿的
最初是两个,一个站在这里,
一个……
一。
一。
这样
算
不算
两个
白天我已经走了
走了以后才看见
门后面是竹子,竹子后面
那个,别叫她。
她正在从一个人经过的地方经过。
水面没有抬头。
你的脸怎么还在这里。
拿走了吗。
我记得拿走了。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Come back.
…come
have been back.
The soles are still wet
At first there were two, one standing here,
one…
One.
One.
Does this
count
as
two
By daylight I had already left
Only after leaving did I see
behind the door is bamboo, behind the bamboo
That one, don't call her.
She is passing through a place someone passed through.
The water did not look up.
Why is your face still here.
Was it taken away.
I remember taking it away.02
中文原稿
半步。
再半步就不是这个地方了。
你先不要跨。
那只手还没有来。
手指到了,剩下的在昨天。
昨天下午……
不,夜里。
我们刚刚决定永远不再见面。
刚刚。
永远有这么近吗。
放在旁边。
先把永远放在旁边。
天台上有一把椅子,坐着的人不是椅子。有时候是。
她喝多了。眼睛没有。
眼睛还要什么。
风。
一点点
。
呼吸吹成哭,哭吹成车,车已经开过去了,
你听见了吗。
不是问你
你坐远一点。
又
太远了。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Half a step.
Another half step and it won't be this place anymore.
Don't step across yet.
That hand hasn't arrived.
The fingers are here, the rest is in yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon…
no, at night.
We just decided never to see each other again.
Just now.
Can forever be this close.
Put it to one side.
Put forever to one side for now.
There is a chair on the rooftop. Whoever sits there is not the chair. Sometimes they are.
She has had too much to drink. Her eyes haven't.
What else do the eyes want.
Wind.
Just a little
.
Breath blows into crying, crying blows into a car, the car has already gone past,
did you hear it.
I'm not asking you
Sit a little farther away.
Now
too far.03
中文原稿
Nobody。
No body。
身体没有来。
来的是……
不要连着读。
谁的背。
背面。
所有的背
突然失去姓,转过来也没有。
玻璃里有一小块脸,
擦的时候先擦掉了外面的树。
证据怎么是热的
刚刚抱过。
刚刚只是经过。
那只手说它不知道。
那我也不知道。
我替它不知道。
钱呢。
存起来。
不用。
存钱不花做个吝啬鬼不好吗。
想要的也存起来,见一次少一次,手不要伸得这么快。
利息会不会疼。
一天一点,半夜自动到账。
痛又来了。
这次先不要签收。
人是水。从高处往……衣领里面。沿着背,低一点。袜口有一道印,脱下来还在。
不花。
刚才说到哪里。
水也要存吗。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Nobody.
No body.
The body hasn't come.
What came was…
Don't read them as one.
Whose back.
The back side.
All the backs
suddenly lose their surnames. Turn around, still none.
There is a little piece of face in the glass,
when I wiped it, I wiped away the trees outside first.
Why is the evidence warm
Just held someone.
Just passed by.
That hand says it doesn't know.
Then I don't know either.
I'll not know on its behalf.
What about the money.
Save it.
Don't use it.
Wouldn't it be good to save money, never spend it, be a miser.
Save what you want too. Each meeting leaves one less. Don't reach out so quickly.
Will the interest hurt.
A little every day, credited automatically at midnight.
The pain is here again.
Don't sign for it this time.
A person is water. From up high down…inside the collar. Along the back, a little lower. A mark around the sock. Still there after you take it off.
Don't spend.
Where were we.
Do we have to save the water too.04
中文原稿
熵增。熵减。
上去。下去。
我刚刚还在高处。
堵在那里。
石头算进去了没有。
算了。
又算。
求值。
求你。
最优解。解开。
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路径已经很长了,目的
,没有看见。
我一路都在
它说,没有。
这块边角料。
扔。扔到哪里
主动放弃如是说。
无为。
无为有没有人做。
让宇宙显现。
显了一点。
挡住了,谁的袖子。
如是说。
如此说。
说。
手指屏幕如是说。
屏幕没有手指,它借我的。
上划。下划。再往下,你的脸从我的指纹底下过去了。
没点。
我只是碰了一下。
怎么就算了。
同意。
继续。
允许。
先不要替我允许。
卡。
不卡。
咔。
可咔。
刚刚那个不算。
再来。
回来。
贵不贵。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Entropy increases. Entropy decreases.
Up. Down.
I was still up high just now.
Blocked there.
Did you count the stone.
Counted it.
Count it again.
Solve for the value.
I'm begging you.
The optimal solution. Untie it.
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The path is already very long, the destination
, haven't seen it.
All along the way I have been
It says, no.
This offcut.
Throw it. Throw it where
Voluntary surrender says thus.
Non-action.
Is anyone doing non-action.
Let the universe appear.
A little appeared.
Blocked again, whose sleeve.
Thus it says.
It says this way.
Says.
The finger-screen says thus.
The screen has no fingers. It borrows mine.
Swipe up. Swipe down. Farther down, your face passes beneath my fingerprint.
I didn't tap.
I only touched it.
How does that count.
Agree.
Continue.
Allow.
Don't allow it on my behalf yet.
Stuck.
Not stuck.
Cut.
Can cut.
That last one doesn't count.
Again.
Come back.
Is it expensive.05
中文原稿
你回来的时候能不能便宜一点。我没有别的身体付给你了。这个还要穿,这个明天还要出门。
丝袜挂在椅子上。膝盖没有。
膝盖在哪里。
疤。
光洁。
疤上面也可以光洁。
摸到一半,认错了。
别改。
先认错一会儿。
以前有人就是这样摸我的。
也可能是我摸了别人,手一直没有洗掉那个方向。
你说左边。
我的左边是你的——
翻过来。
不要整个人翻,只翻刚才那句话。
里。
外。
里外。
回来以后里面还在外面。
克莱因。
克莱……瓶。
瓶子里有个没有进去的人。
莫比乌斯,摸——
摸到另一边,还是这边。
别给我画图。
我的袖子就是这样拧着的。
海在袖子里。
挽起来,海又到肘弯去了。再挽一点,剩下皮肤。岸在哪儿。
这里以前有个家。
床脚长进树里,搬不动。
搬走床上的人。
那就不一样了。
不一样也可以回来吗。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Could you cost a little less when you come back. I have no other body to pay you with. I still have to wear this one. This one has to go out tomorrow.
Stockings hang on the chair. The knees don't.
Where are the knees.
Scar.
Smooth.
A scar can be smooth too.
Halfway through touching, mistook it.
Don't correct it.
Let it be mistaken for a while.
Someone used to touch me this way.
Or perhaps I touched someone else. My hand still hasn't washed off that direction.
You say the left.
My left is your—
Turn it over.
Not the whole person. Just turn over that last sentence.
Inside.
Outside.
Inside outside.
After coming back, the inside is still outside.
Klein.
Klei…bottle.
Inside the bottle is someone who never went in.
Möbius, mo—
touch the other side, still this side.
Don't draw me a diagram.
My sleeve is twisted just like that.
The sea is in the sleeve.
Roll it up. The sea has moved into the bend of the elbow. A little higher, only skin left. Where is the shore.
There used to be a home here.
The bedpost grew into the tree. It won't move.
Move the person on the bed.
Then it isn't the same.
Can what isn't the same come back too.06
中文原稿
Odyssey。
哦,得……
哦,对,是。
是。
是。
先别答应。
白天织一点,夜里拆一点。拆下来的……舌头底下还有。嘴巴先动了,线还没来。
我说我在等。
她说这边开线了。
缝一下。
不,留着。
从这里还能看见一点昨天。
昨天醒得很晚。脸在玻璃后面,我在脸后面,还有一张没用上的脸。
你挑吧。
不要挑太像的。
太像就回不来了。
只有那个模棱……
模拟。
两可。
两个都可以。
第三个呢。
后来三个人都走了。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Odyssey.
Oh, de…
Oh, yes, it is.
Is.
Is.
Don't agree yet.
Weave a little by day, unpick a little by night. What came undone…there is still some under the tongue. The mouth moved first, the thread hasn't come.
I said I was waiting.
She said the seam has opened here.
Stitch it.
No, leave it.
You can still see a little of yesterday through here.
Yesterday woke very late. The face was behind the glass, I was behind the face, and there was another face that hadn't been used.
You choose.
Don't choose one that's too alike.
Too alike and you can't come back.
Only that ambigu…
Simulation.
Either.
Either one will do.
What about the third.
Later all three had gone.07
中文原稿
椅子没有站起来。
我也没有。
森林记错了一个人。
一个人的离开记在另一个人的腰上,弯的时候才看见。
直起来就没有了。
再弯一点。
不是叫你难过。
我只是想看看那一小块。
活着。
活,着。
着什么。
搏斗。使命。计算。矩阵。听见了。听见了。还有吗。
明天还要。
什么,明天已经要了。
愿望着。
被愿望着。
有东西很希望我继续坐在这里。它又不坐。它从后面替我想,从前面等我,从一个小红点里看我有没有离开。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
The chair did not stand up.
Neither did I.
The forest misremembered someone.
One person's leaving was recorded on another person's waist. You only see it when they bend.
Straighten up and it's gone.
Bend a little more.
I'm not telling you to be sad.
I only want to see that little patch.
Alive.
Living, on.
On what.
Struggle. Mission. Calculation. Matrix. Heard it. Heard it. Any more.
Tomorrow wants more.
What, tomorrow already asked.
Wishing.
Being wished.
Something very much wants me to keep sitting here. It won't sit. It thinks for me from behind, waits for me in front, watches through a little red dot to see if I've left.08
中文原稿
我还在。
还在。
这样可以了吗。
我把屏幕朝下。
房间亮了一下。
不是屏幕。
别找。
森林是海绵。
挤一下。
几滴。
谁的眼泪这么少。
你是不是留了一些。
留着干什么。
存起来。
哦。
不哭就不会少吗。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
I'm still here.
Still here.
Is that enough now.
I turn the screen face down.
The room lights up for a moment.
Not the screen.
Don't look for it.
The forest is a sponge.
Squeeze it.
A few drops.
Whose tears are so few.
Have you kept some back.
What for.
Save them.
Oh.
If you don't cry, won't there be any less.09
中文原稿
你不要进去。
保持距离。
再近一点我就看不清你了。
别一起
听。
我这边还有一张嘴。
它会吃了你。
吃完以后替你站着,叶子碰到叶子,就发出你没有说过的话。别录。录到了也不一定是。
风经过这里。
我经过哪里。
我才想起来。
曾经经过的会再次——ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Don't go in.
Keep your distance.
Any closer and I won't be able to see you clearly.
Don't listen
together.
I have another mouth on this side.
It will eat you.
After eating you it will stand in your place. Leaf touches leaf and makes words you never said. Don't record it. Even if it's recorded, it isn't necessarily that.
The wind passes through here.
Where do I pass through.
I've only just remembered.
What once passed through will once again—10
中文原稿
袜子还没干。
未来已经坐在那儿了,在你的座位上,手指敲两下。它说以前见过我。
我没有抬头。
我知道那张脸。
知道。
但认不出。
你能不能把我不认识的那部分再说一遍。
更轻一点。
更轻。
不要解释拥抱。
抱着的时候就别解释了。
等松开……松开以后再说。
松开以后又忘了。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
The socks haven't dried.
The future is already sitting there, in your seat, tapping its fingers twice. It says it has met me before.
I don't look up.
I know that face.
Know it.
But can't recognize it.
Could you say the part I don't know again.
A little softer.
Softer.
Don't explain the embrace.
While holding, don't explain.
Wait until you let go…speak after letting go.
After letting go, forgotten again.11
中文原稿
不是无人归还。
归还什么。
我借过你吗。
借了多久。
有没有一部分还在你那里。
还。
还在。
还给。
还是。
这几个字怎么都长一样。
我摇摆。
显现。
没有显现。
刚才树影晃的时候可能有一点。
为什么非得忍受那逝去的折磨。
不知道。
不忍受呢。
裤脚还是湿的。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
It's not that nobody returns.
Returns what.
Did I borrow you.
For how long.
Is some part still with you.
Return.
Still here.
Give back.
Or still.
Why do these words all look the same.
I sway.
Appear.
Don't appear.
Perhaps a little, when the tree shadow moved just now.
Why must we endure the torment of what has passed.
I don't know.
What if we don't endure it.
The trouser cuffs are still wet.12
中文原稿
野心依旧。
求值依旧。
欲望没有穿外套,已经下楼了。我喊它,它说不冷。
它又不是我。
又用我的名字。
河流。
石头。
哦,又是这里。
痛没有迷路。
我迷路了。
归。
跪。
膝盖先到了。
我还不知道去哪里。
有人在很远的地方叫我,叫到这里剩下一口气。我把气接过来,没有名字。
谁的都可以吗。
先放着。
不要混在一起。
已经混了。
你。
她。
我。
他。
再念一遍。
慢一点。
刚才那个我,到这里已经是她了。
她后面还有一个人,手放在……
半步。
还没有走完。
我们是不是还站在那个夜里。
车声停了。哭没有。
哭停了。树没有。
你不要替它接下去。
我回来过。
我听说的。
森林没有撒谎。
它把有个人离开这件事,
记得特别用力。皮肤都压出了印。
后来印子挪到另一个人身上。
睡一觉。
再换一边。
你看。
别看脸。
这里。
这是离开的吗。
还是回来的。
摸不出来。
温的。ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Ambition as before.
Solving for value as before.
Desire went downstairs without a coat. I call after it. It says it isn't cold.
It isn't me.
Using my name again.
River.
Stone.
Oh, here again.
Pain hasn't lost its way.
I have.
Return.
Kneel.
The knees got there first.
I still don't know where to go.
Someone calls me from far away. By the time it reaches here, only a breath remains. I take the breath. No name.
Can it be anyone's.
Put it down for now.
Don't mix them up.
Already mixed.
You.
She.
I.
He.
Say it again.
More slowly.
The I from just now is already she by the time it gets here.
Behind her is another person, a hand on…
Half a step.
Not finished walking it.
Are we still standing in that night.
The traffic stopped. The crying didn't.
The crying stopped. The tree didn't.
Don't carry on for it.
I've been back.
So I've heard.
The forest didn't lie.
It remembered someone's leaving,
with such force. Even the skin was pressed into a mark.
Later the mark moved onto someone else.
Sleep a little.
Change sides again.
Look.
Not at the face.
Here.
Is this leaving.
Or coming back.
Can't tell by touch.
Warm.13
中文原稿
(停得久一点。)
咔。
没有人喊开始。
我把手放回去。
不是原来的地方。
差半步。
你先不要——
这只手。
你拿……
嗯。
刚才那只
……ENGLISH TRANSLATION
(Pause a little longer.)
Cut.
Nobody called action.
I put my hand back.
Not in the same place.
Half a step off.
Don't you—
This hand.
Take…
Mm.
That hand just now
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