Chapter 1305

In the evening, Levine came to the grovens' house with the rhubarb cat. However, he met his friends who came to the professor's house. The professor and his wife warmly invited Levine to stay for dinner.

But here, Levine seems out of place. Because this is a group of people who receive higher education and enjoy classical music; Folk songs come from the poor groups on the street.

After dinner, Lillian grosvens warmly invited Levine to perform a song, although Levine was reluctant to do so. His music was not a little song for entertainment, but a pursuit of art and dream; But Lillian warmly invited, the scene has been a little embarrassed, he was not able to refuse after all.

So Levine took the guitar and began to play the song "wave goodbye". He doesn't know why he chose this song. Maybe it's a habit, a habit of going deep into the blood.

Fingertips are playing on the strings, and a helpless radian emerges from the corner of my mouth, and I hum softly, "if I can spread my wings like Noah's dove... I will cross the river and pursue my true love..."

The light bitterness and vicissitudes are revealed in the deep voice. This song is the second soundtrack of the opening. Levine found the vinyl record at the grovens' house - the song he sang with Mike.

But different from the opening melody, Levine's singing is so sad and lonely at this moment. It seems that the scars in her soul can be seen in the curling sound. Emily can't help but slowly immerse herself in Levine's world.

For the first time, she understood Levine's inner cry and roar. About Jane, about Mike, about music, about life, the power of the soul penetrated little by little, but without further immersion, a harmony came from Lillian's ear.

"Wave goodbye... Goodbye..."

"My love... Love..."

Levine's singing was interrupted. He stopped playing and began to question Lillian.

Lillian said, puzzled. "This is Mike's part."

"Don't do that." Levine's voice trembled slightly, revealing a trace of unbearable pain.

In an instant, Emily was defeated like this. Without warning, she raised her right hand and covered her mouth. Tears kept falling. She understood the sadness and bitterness behind the song, the vicissitudes and scars in Levine's song, and the helplessness and loss in Levine's soul.

Levine broke out.

Levine vented all his anger to Lillian, rudely and impertinently destroyed grophines' dinner, and the scene immediately became ugly, but he didn't care and let out all his negative emotions.

What's more ridiculous is that the rhubarb cat is not grophines' cat. Because their cat is male. And Levine's cat is a female.

In the chaotic scene, Emily is crying more and more sad. She just looks at Levine, who is like a trapped animal. She wanders around the city of New York, rushing left and right, but is still unable to break free. His dream, like a dream of light, is still unable to penetrate the dark clouds, The world is still in chaos.

At this moment, a handkerchief came to her right hand. Emily turned her head in amazement, and then she saw Steven Spielberg with a sad face.

Steven didn't speak. He just shrugged slightly and invisibly, handed the handkerchief to Emily. Without saying anything, he turned to the big screen again and quietly blended into the world in front of him. The eyes behind the glasses flicker with a touch of sadness, surging in the light, it seems to fall into a deep memory, unable to extricate themselves.

For young Emily, this is Levine's story.

For older Steven, it's his own story.

Levine left New York for Chicago.

Al Cody mentioned before that a friend was going to Chicago, hoping to take another person to share the cost of gasoline; At that time, Levine expressed his disdain and preferred to stay in New York, but now, after all, he chose to go to Chicago with the rhubarb cat whose name and owner were unknown.

It was a very, very strange journey.

The driver is a quiet tough guy; The passenger is a fat old man who sleeps all the way. The whole carriage was silent, without even introducing each other. They didn't know each other's names, so they went all the way along the road.

The old man finally woke up, full of coarse mouth and sharp body, "folk song? I thought you were a musician. A folk singer with a cat, are you Ji? "

For folk songs, the old man was full of disdain and disdain, and launched an attack in full swing.

But for the first time, Levine mentioned Mike, his former partner, "he jumped off the George Washington Bridge."

The old man pauses a little. "Oh, damn, I won't blame him. I can't stand playing "Jimmy crack corn" every night. "

"Jimmy breaks corn" is an American children's song.

"Oh, I'm sorry, please forgive me, but that's stupid, isn't it?" Just when everyone thought that the old man was apologizing for the nursery rhyme, he immediately broke the illusion, "George Washington Bridge? Generally speaking, they choose the Brooklyn Bridge, right? George Washington Bridge? Who would do that? What's his matter? Are you an idiot? "

The old man's point of view just represents a group.

They respected traditional music such as jazz and soul, and despised the new music represented by folk songs; Even further, they reject the poor people represented by the folk songs, maintain their medium and even high life with elegant and arrogant, rich and decent attitude, and refuse to go along with the guys who live in Greenwich Village.

"Clean asshole poems," he said for the first time when everyone thought the tough guy was dumb, "Orlovsky."

Peter Orlovsky, a famous American poet and actor, is the beat generation. He is also the life partner of the poet Allen Ginsberg, the protagonist of "kill your love". The full name of the poem is "the song of clean bastards and smiling vegetables".

"And then, the role of the brig." It's a surreal drama about marine prison atrocities in the 1960s.

Obviously, the old man represents a group, the middle class enjoying the comfortable status quo; The tough guys represent another group, the beat generation; There are also the groups represented by Levine, the folk poets.

Three people, representing three groups, are the products of the background of the times. They adapt to or confront or integrate into the society in their own way, but they have become the cornerstone of the times, become a part of the times, and promote the progress of the times intentionally or unintentionally.

Then, in the toilet, the old man overdosed and frothed and fainted. Levine found out by accident. Before that, every rest stop was bound to stop, and every release time was bound to be too long. Now all of them have been explained - the old man who seems to be indifferent, living in his own comfortable life.

And then, the three went back on their way. The tough guy was suspected of drunk driving, and the police forced him to pull over; Although he didn't drink, the quarrel with the police led to his being forcibly taken away. Looking at the police car, Levine was also confused.

Then Levine got out of the car with his guitar. Looking into the cat's eyes, Levine hesitated again and again. After all, Levine closed the car door, left it with the old man, went on alone, stopped a car on the side of the road, and set off again.

Three people, three endings.

In the dark, it refers to the different directions and endings of the times. Emily subconsciously turns her head and looks at Steven. Then she sees Steven's thoughtful expression. Between the light and shadow of the big screen, it seems that the whole person has entered the vortex of that era and can't extricate herself.

It's back to Levine.

Alone, frozen and snowy, Levine arrived in Chicago. There is no winter coat, shivering in the cold wind, but accidentally stepped on the snow, the whole shoe is like a boat in general, too wet to get rid of.

Curled up in the coffee shop, filling his stomach with endless cups of bad coffee, embarrassed to take off his shoes, gently rubbing the sole of his feet to get warm, but a cup of coffee can't make his body warm up; Later, he secretly called the gate of horn bar created by bud Grossman, but did not dare to visit in person.

After thinking about it, he turned around and went to the railway station with nothing to do. He hesitated whether he should go back to New York, but fell asleep on the bench because he was too tired. As a result, he was watched by the patrolman and suspected that he was an outlaw. He was chasing after me, so he came to the bugle gate bar again.

Like a top, he was whipped and whirled, rushing left and right, but he couldn't find his own direction. The ice and snow in Chicago made him unable to find any shelter, even a decent coat.

After waiting for an hour, he got up the courage to complete the self introduction, brazenly promoted himself, and finally won the chance to perform a song in front of bud.

But an affectionate and moving "the death of Queen Jane", a gentle and affectionate singing, it seems that even the temperature of the soul is hidden in the string of music, sad and sleepy, but only in exchange for a sentence, "I don't see any commercial value."

"All right." So says Levine.