Crack in time: Kate & Leopold

 

Stuart: It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me. 

最夸张的事莫过于狗看见了彩虹。要知道狗是色盲，无法分清颜色。就像我们看不见时间——我们只能感觉到它的流逝，但永远都看不见它——时间简直是我们的盲点。好像我们都乘坐在高速火车上，整个世界都从身边飞过，现在设想一下，假如我们可以把火车停下来，走到火车外面看一看周围，看时间到底是什么东西。宇宙、世界、万物是如此的超出想象，就像小狗眼中的颜色；然而那又是如此的千真万确，如同你正坐着的椅子。假如我们能够如此地观察时间，看看吧，或许裂缝会从外表显现出来。就这么简单啊，这就是我所发现的一切——我只不过是个，看到椅子裂缝的家伙，这个裂缝别人却看不到。我就是那个看到了彩虹的狗，再没有别的狗相信我。