[00:00.00] Peggy Noonan lives in New York and writes a weekly column for The Wall Street Journal
[00:07.31]This piece is taken from one of them.In it she reflects one her week and on life in the city
[00:15.99]Writing less than a year away from the destruction of the World Trade Center,
[00:22.57]her thoughts are inevitably affected by that terrible event.
[00:28.73]THE NIGHTMARE AND THE DREAMS by Peqqy Noonan
[00:41.14]It is hot in New York.It is so hot that once when I hand a fever a friend called and asked me how I felt and I said
[00:51.46]You know how dry and hot paper feels when it's been faxed?That's how I feel
[00:58.88]And how I felt all day yesterday.It is hot.We feel as if we've been faxed.
[01:07.06]I found myself fully awake at5 a.m.yesterday and went for a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge
[01:14.63]Now more than ever the bridge seems like a great gift to my city.It spans.In the changed landscape of downtown
[01:24.48]it is our undisturbed beauty,grown ever more stately each year.People seem to love it more now
[01:33.68]or at least mention it more or notice it more.So do I.It's always full of tourists but always full of New Yorkers,too
[01:43.97]I am struck,as I always am when I'm on it,than I am walking on one of the engineering wonders of the world
[01:53.01]And I was struck yesterday that I was looking at one of the greatest views in the history of man's creation,Manhattan at sunrise
[02:02.75]And all of it was free.A billionaire would pay billions to own this bridge and keep this view,but I and my jogging
[02:13.02]biking and hiking companions have it for nothing.We inherited it.
[02:19.62]Now all we do is pay maintenance,in the form of taxes.We are lucky
[02:26.86]As I rounded the entrance to the bridge on the Brooklyn side,a small moment added to my happiness
[02:34.85]It was dawn,traffic was light,I passed a black van with smoked windows.In the driver's seat with the window down
[02:45.49]was a black man of 30 or so,a cap low on his brow,wearing thick black sunglasses.
[02:52.25]I was on the walk way that leads to the bridge
[02:56.67]he was less than two feet away;we were the only people there.We made eye contact. "Good morning!"he said
[03:05.78]"Good morning to you,"I answered,and for no reason at all we started to laugh,and moved on into the day
[03:14.46]Nothing significant in it except it may or may not have happened that way 30or 40 years ago
[03:22.40]I'm not sure the full charge of friendliness would have been assumed or answered.
[03:28.85]It made me think of something I saw Monday night on TV.They were showing the 1967movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
[03:38.31]"with Katharine Hepburn,Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy,about a young white woman and a young black man who fall in love
[03:47.76]hope to marry and must contend with disapproving parents on both sides
[03:53.82]It's help up well,and parts of it seemed moving in a way I didn't remember,and pertinent.
[04:01.08]There was a bit of dialogue that packed a wallop.Spencer Tracy as the father of the would-be bride
[04:09.13]is pressing Mr.Poitier on whether he has considered the sufferings their mixed-race childern might have to endure in America
[04:17.93]Has he thought about this?Has his fiancee? "She is optimistic," says Mr.Poitier. "She thinks every one of them
[04:28.20]will grow up to become president of the United States.I on the other hand would settle for secretary of state
[04:36.90]"Those words,written 35 years ago may have seemed dreamy then.But in its audience
[04:45.07]when the movie came out would likely have been a young,film-loving Army lieutenant named Colin Powell who,that year
[04:54.03]was preparing for a second tour of duty in Vietnam.And now he is secretary of state.This is the land dreams are made of
[05:04.46]Does that strike you as a corny thing to say and talk about?It is.That's another great thing.
[05:13.29]Late Tuesday,on a subway ride from Brooklyn to the north of Manhattan,I resaw something I'd noticed and forgotten about
[05:22.66]It is that more and more,on the streets and no the train,I see people wearing ID tags.We all wear IDs now
[05:32.96]We didn't use to .They hang from thick cotton string or an aluminum chain;
[05:39.64]they're worn one at a time or three at a time,but they're there.
[05:44.95]I ponder the implications.What does it mean that we wear IDs ?What are we saying
[05:53.57]or do we think we're saying? I mean aside from the obvious.
[05:58.92]I imagined yesterday the row of people across from me on the train
[06:04.17]looking up all of a sudden from their newspaper and answering one after another:
[06:10.49]"It means I know who I am," says the man in blue shirt and suspenders.
[06:16.76]"It means I can get into the building,"says the woman in gray.
[06:22.25]"It means I am a solid citizen with a job."
[06:26.82]"I am known to others in my workplace."
[06:31.03]"I'm not just blowing through life,I'm integrated into it.I belong to something.I receive a regular paycheck
[06:40.30]I have had a background check done by security and have been found to be a Safe Person.Have you?
[06:48.08]I wonder if unemployed people on the train look at the tags around the other peoples' necks and think
[06:54.82]Soon I hope I'll have one too.I wonder if kids just getting their first job at 17
[07:03.42]will ever know that in America we didn't all use to be ID'd.Used to be only for people who worked in nuclear power plants
[07:12.48]or great halls of government.Otherwise you could be pretty obscure.Which isn't a bad way to be.
[07:20.32]A month ago there were news reports of a post-Sept.11baby boom.Everyone was so rocked by news of their mortality
[07:30.43]that they realized there will never be a perfect time to have kids but we're here now so let's have a family
[07:38.63]I believed the bably boom story and waited for the babies.
[07:43.88]Then came the stories saying:Nah,there is no baby boom,it's all anecdotal,there's no statistical evidence to back it up
[07:53.73]And I believed that too.But I've been noticing something for weeks now.In my neighborhood there is a baby boom
[08:03.45]There are babies all over in Brooklyn.It is full of newborns,of pink soft-limbed infants in cotton carriers on daddy's chest
[08:14.03]It is full of strollers,not noly regular strollers but the kind that carry two children-double-wides.
[08:22.54]And triple-wides.I don't care what anyone says,there have got to be data that back up what I'm seeing
[08:31.24]that after Sept.11,there was at least a Brooklyn baby boom.
[08:37.22]A dream boom,too.The other day I spoke with a friend I hadn't seen since the world changed
[08:45.53]He was two blocks away when the towers fell,and he saw everything.
[08:50.49]We have all seen the extraordianry footage of that day,
[08:55.46]seen it over and over,but few of us have seen what my friend described:
[09:02.51]how in the office buildings near the World Trade Center they stood at the windows and suddenly darkness enveloped them
[09:11.63]as the towers collapsed and the demonic cloud swept through.Did you see those forced to jump?I asked.
[09:20.20]"Yes,"he said,and looked away.
[09:24.90]Have you had bad dreams?
[09:28.19]Yes,he said,and looked away.
[09:32.58]I thought about this for a few days.My friend is brilliant and by nature a describer of things felt and seen
[09:41.72]But not this time.I spoke to a friend who is a therapist.Are your patients getting extraordinary dreams?I asked
[09:52.74]"Always,"he laughs.
[09:56.01]Sept.11-related?
[09:59.82]"Yes,"he says, "mostly among adolescents."
[10:05.52]I asked if he was saving them,writing them down.He shook his head no.
[10:12.15]So:The Sept.11Dream Project.We should begin it.I want to, though I'm not sure why
[10:22.89]I think maybe down the road I will try to write about them.Maybe not.I am certain,however
[10:31.69]that dreams can be an expression of a nation's unconscious
[10:37.02]if there can be said to be such a thing,and deserve respect.(Carl Jung thought so.)
[10:44.44]To respect is to record.Send in your Sept.11related dream-recurring,unusual,striking,whatever
[10:55.83]I will read them,and appreciate them and possibly weave them into a piece on what Sept.11
[11:04.22]has done to our dream lives and to our imaginations,
[11:09.10]when our imaginations are operating on their own,unfettered,unstopped,spanning
[11:17.54]terrorism reflect on/upon unconscious fax
[11:23.28]恐怖主义 思考 潜意识 传真
[11:29.03]span undisturbed stately New Yorker
[11:33.54]横跨 安静的 庄严的 纽约人
[11:38.04]jog bike hike for nothing
[11:41.88]慢跑 自行车 远足 免费
[11:45.72]maintenance van brow contend
[11:50.09]维护 先锋 眉毛 竞争
[11:54.45]disapproving hold up pertinent wallop
[11:59.13]反对的 将…视为范例 中肯的 重击
[12:03.80]bride suffering mixed-race fiancee
[12:08.49]新娘 痛苦 种族混合的 未婚妻
[12:13.18]settle for dreamy come out corny
[12:17.44]勉强接受 梦想的 发表 过时的
[12:21.69]ID tag string aluminum
[12:25.85]身份证 标签 细绳 铝
[12:30.00]ponder all of a sudden suspenders paycheck
[12:35.03]沉思 突然 吊裤带 薪水
[12:40.06]obscure boom mortality nah
[12:44.02]费解的 繁荣 死亡率 不
[12:47.97]anecdotal statistical back up carrier
[12:52.26]道听途说的 统计的 支持 搬运工具
[12:56.54]stroller footage envelop demonic
[13:00.73]散步者 片段 包住 恶魔的
[13:04.93]therapist adolescent send in recur
[13:09.20]治疗专家 青少年 寄送 复发
[13:18.07]不寻常的 编排 想象力 自由自在的
[00:07.31]This piece is taken from one of them.In it she reflects one her week and on life in the city
[00:15.99]Writing less than a year away from the destruction of the World Trade Center,
[00:22.57]her thoughts are inevitably affected by that terrible event.
[00:28.73]THE NIGHTMARE AND THE DREAMS by Peqqy Noonan
[00:41.14]It is hot in New York.It is so hot that once when I hand a fever a friend called and asked me how I felt and I said
[00:51.46]You know how dry and hot paper feels when it's been faxed?That's how I feel
[00:58.88]And how I felt all day yesterday.It is hot.We feel as if we've been faxed.
[01:07.06]I found myself fully awake at5 a.m.yesterday and went for a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge
[01:14.63]Now more than ever the bridge seems like a great gift to my city.It spans.In the changed landscape of downtown
[01:24.48]it is our undisturbed beauty,grown ever more stately each year.People seem to love it more now
[01:33.68]or at least mention it more or notice it more.So do I.It's always full of tourists but always full of New Yorkers,too
[01:43.97]I am struck,as I always am when I'm on it,than I am walking on one of the engineering wonders of the world
[01:53.01]And I was struck yesterday that I was looking at one of the greatest views in the history of man's creation,Manhattan at sunrise
[02:02.75]And all of it was free.A billionaire would pay billions to own this bridge and keep this view,but I and my jogging
[02:13.02]biking and hiking companions have it for nothing.We inherited it.
[02:19.62]Now all we do is pay maintenance,in the form of taxes.We are lucky
[02:26.86]As I rounded the entrance to the bridge on the Brooklyn side,a small moment added to my happiness
[02:34.85]It was dawn,traffic was light,I passed a black van with smoked windows.In the driver's seat with the window down
[02:45.49]was a black man of 30 or so,a cap low on his brow,wearing thick black sunglasses.
[02:52.25]I was on the walk way that leads to the bridge
[02:56.67]he was less than two feet away;we were the only people there.We made eye contact. "Good morning!"he said
[03:05.78]"Good morning to you,"I answered,and for no reason at all we started to laugh,and moved on into the day
[03:14.46]Nothing significant in it except it may or may not have happened that way 30or 40 years ago
[03:22.40]I'm not sure the full charge of friendliness would have been assumed or answered.
[03:28.85]It made me think of something I saw Monday night on TV.They were showing the 1967movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
[03:38.31]"with Katharine Hepburn,Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy,about a young white woman and a young black man who fall in love
[03:47.76]hope to marry and must contend with disapproving parents on both sides
[03:53.82]It's help up well,and parts of it seemed moving in a way I didn't remember,and pertinent.
[04:01.08]There was a bit of dialogue that packed a wallop.Spencer Tracy as the father of the would-be bride
[04:09.13]is pressing Mr.Poitier on whether he has considered the sufferings their mixed-race childern might have to endure in America
[04:17.93]Has he thought about this?Has his fiancee? "She is optimistic," says Mr.Poitier. "She thinks every one of them
[04:28.20]will grow up to become president of the United States.I on the other hand would settle for secretary of state
[04:36.90]"Those words,written 35 years ago may have seemed dreamy then.But in its audience
[04:45.07]when the movie came out would likely have been a young,film-loving Army lieutenant named Colin Powell who,that year
[04:54.03]was preparing for a second tour of duty in Vietnam.And now he is secretary of state.This is the land dreams are made of
[05:04.46]Does that strike you as a corny thing to say and talk about?It is.That's another great thing.
[05:13.29]Late Tuesday,on a subway ride from Brooklyn to the north of Manhattan,I resaw something I'd noticed and forgotten about
[05:22.66]It is that more and more,on the streets and no the train,I see people wearing ID tags.We all wear IDs now
[05:32.96]We didn't use to .They hang from thick cotton string or an aluminum chain;
[05:39.64]they're worn one at a time or three at a time,but they're there.
[05:44.95]I ponder the implications.What does it mean that we wear IDs ?What are we saying
[05:53.57]or do we think we're saying? I mean aside from the obvious.
[05:58.92]I imagined yesterday the row of people across from me on the train
[06:04.17]looking up all of a sudden from their newspaper and answering one after another:
[06:10.49]"It means I know who I am," says the man in blue shirt and suspenders.
[06:16.76]"It means I can get into the building,"says the woman in gray.
[06:22.25]"It means I am a solid citizen with a job."
[06:26.82]"I am known to others in my workplace."
[06:31.03]"I'm not just blowing through life,I'm integrated into it.I belong to something.I receive a regular paycheck
[06:40.30]I have had a background check done by security and have been found to be a Safe Person.Have you?
[06:48.08]I wonder if unemployed people on the train look at the tags around the other peoples' necks and think
[06:54.82]Soon I hope I'll have one too.I wonder if kids just getting their first job at 17
[07:03.42]will ever know that in America we didn't all use to be ID'd.Used to be only for people who worked in nuclear power plants
[07:12.48]or great halls of government.Otherwise you could be pretty obscure.Which isn't a bad way to be.
[07:20.32]A month ago there were news reports of a post-Sept.11baby boom.Everyone was so rocked by news of their mortality
[07:30.43]that they realized there will never be a perfect time to have kids but we're here now so let's have a family
[07:38.63]I believed the bably boom story and waited for the babies.
[07:43.88]Then came the stories saying:Nah,there is no baby boom,it's all anecdotal,there's no statistical evidence to back it up
[07:53.73]And I believed that too.But I've been noticing something for weeks now.In my neighborhood there is a baby boom
[08:03.45]There are babies all over in Brooklyn.It is full of newborns,of pink soft-limbed infants in cotton carriers on daddy's chest
[08:14.03]It is full of strollers,not noly regular strollers but the kind that carry two children-double-wides.
[08:22.54]And triple-wides.I don't care what anyone says,there have got to be data that back up what I'm seeing
[08:31.24]that after Sept.11,there was at least a Brooklyn baby boom.
[08:37.22]A dream boom,too.The other day I spoke with a friend I hadn't seen since the world changed
[08:45.53]He was two blocks away when the towers fell,and he saw everything.
[08:50.49]We have all seen the extraordianry footage of that day,
[08:55.46]seen it over and over,but few of us have seen what my friend described:
[09:02.51]how in the office buildings near the World Trade Center they stood at the windows and suddenly darkness enveloped them
[09:11.63]as the towers collapsed and the demonic cloud swept through.Did you see those forced to jump?I asked.
[09:20.20]"Yes,"he said,and looked away.
[09:24.90]Have you had bad dreams?
[09:28.19]Yes,he said,and looked away.
[09:32.58]I thought about this for a few days.My friend is brilliant and by nature a describer of things felt and seen
[09:41.72]But not this time.I spoke to a friend who is a therapist.Are your patients getting extraordinary dreams?I asked
[09:52.74]"Always,"he laughs.
[09:56.01]Sept.11-related?
[09:59.82]"Yes,"he says, "mostly among adolescents."
[10:05.52]I asked if he was saving them,writing them down.He shook his head no.
[10:12.15]So:The Sept.11Dream Project.We should begin it.I want to, though I'm not sure why
[10:22.89]I think maybe down the road I will try to write about them.Maybe not.I am certain,however
[10:31.69]that dreams can be an expression of a nation's unconscious
[10:37.02]if there can be said to be such a thing,and deserve respect.(Carl Jung thought so.)
[10:44.44]To respect is to record.Send in your Sept.11related dream-recurring,unusual,striking,whatever
[10:55.83]I will read them,and appreciate them and possibly weave them into a piece on what Sept.11
[11:04.22]has done to our dream lives and to our imaginations,
[11:09.10]when our imaginations are operating on their own,unfettered,unstopped,spanning
[11:17.54]terrorism reflect on/upon unconscious fax
[11:23.28]恐怖主义 思考 潜意识 传真
[11:29.03]span undisturbed stately New Yorker
[11:33.54]横跨 安静的 庄严的 纽约人
[11:38.04]jog bike hike for nothing
[11:41.88]慢跑 自行车 远足 免费
[11:45.72]maintenance van brow contend
[11:50.09]维护 先锋 眉毛 竞争
[11:54.45]disapproving hold up pertinent wallop
[11:59.13]反对的 将…视为范例 中肯的 重击
[12:03.80]bride suffering mixed-race fiancee
[12:08.49]新娘 痛苦 种族混合的 未婚妻
[12:13.18]settle for dreamy come out corny
[12:17.44]勉强接受 梦想的 发表 过时的
[12:21.69]ID tag string aluminum
[12:25.85]身份证 标签 细绳 铝
[12:30.00]ponder all of a sudden suspenders paycheck
[12:35.03]沉思 突然 吊裤带 薪水
[12:40.06]obscure boom mortality nah
[12:44.02]费解的 繁荣 死亡率 不
[12:47.97]anecdotal statistical back up carrier
[12:52.26]道听途说的 统计的 支持 搬运工具
[12:56.54]stroller footage envelop demonic
[13:00.73]散步者 片段 包住 恶魔的
[13:04.93]therapist adolescent send in recur
[13:09.20]治疗专家 青少年 寄送 复发
[13:18.07]不寻常的 编排 想象力 自由自在的
