2011年12月26日月曜日

"Hello, I'm Andy Dufresne."

 "Hello," he said. "I'm Andy Dufresne." He offered his hand and I shook it. He wasn't a man to waste time being social; he got right to the point. "I understand that you're a man who knows how to get things. I agreed that I was able to locate certain items from time to time. "How do you do that?" Andy asked. "Sometimes," I said, "things just seem to come into my hand. I can't explain it. Unless it's because I'm Irish." He smiled a little at that. "I wonder if you could get me a rock-hammer."

 The place called the prison is constructed by some big groups of prisoners. Naturally vertical society exists in that. Most people flatter a person of the top of the group. I thought of Andy Dufresne would have a lot to do with how his time went. He probably knew it, too, but he not kowtowing or sucking up to me, and I respected him for that.

 I think it would be fair to say I liked Andy from the first. Therefore I prepared rock-hammer, his according to demand. If it is usual, cost plus ten per cent is my going rate, but I have to go up some on a dangerous item. For something like the gadget you're talking about, it takes a little more goose-grease to get the wheels turning. I did not know it then, a long time after, I discovered that he had better than five hundred. He had brought it in with him.

 After that, I watched him curiously. He walked a few step, saw something in the dirt, bent over, and picked it up. It was a small rock. Prison fatigues, except for those worn by mechanics when they're on the job, have no pockets. But there are ways to get around that. The little pebble disappeared up Andy's mired him. In spite of the problems he was having, he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't , and plenty  of them aren't in prison, either. And I noticed that, although his face looked as if a twister had happened to it, his hands were still neat and clean, the nails well-kept. But I did not see much of him, over the next six months; Andy spent a lot of that time in solitary.

2011年12月19日月曜日

Andy first came to me!!

 In the court, a detective explained the modus operandi of the case that Andy caused one after another. Andy Dufresne took the stand in his own defense and told his story calmly, coolly, and dispassionately. During the trial, he was calm from beginning to end.

 Getting a pass out of Shawshank when you've got murder stamped on your admittance-slip is slow work, as slow as a river eroding a rock. Seven men sit on the board, two more than at most state prisons, and every one of those seven has an ass as hard as the water drawn up from a mineral- spring well. You can't buy guys, you can't sweet-talk them, you can't cry for them. As far as the board in here is concerned, money do not talk, and nobody walks. There were other reasons in Andy's case as well... but that belongs a little further along in my story.

 I remember the first time Andy Dufresne goy in touch with me for something; I remember like it was  yesterday. In the summer of 1948 he came around for something else. The truck loading-bays are on the south side of the yard.There are five of them. Shawshank is busy place during the work-week--deliveries in, deliveries out.

 It was on a Sunday that Andy first came to me. I had just finished talking to Elmore Armitage, a fellow who often came in handy to me, about radio when Andy walked up. I knew who he was, of course; he had a requtation foe being a snob and a cool fish. One of the people saying so was Bogs Diamond, a bad man to have on your case. Andy had no cellmate, and I'd heard that just the way he wanted it, although people were already saying he thought his shit smelled sweeter than the ordinary. But I do not have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him hor myself.

2011年12月12日月曜日

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

 I work as a bagman in federal prison. I am the guy who can get it for you. Tailor-made cigarettes, abag of reefer if you are partial, or almost anything else... I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty. I committerd murder. At first, I intended to murder my wife alone to get the insurance. However, various incidents occurred at the same time, as a result, I have caused the great event that involved fifty people or better. After a long trial, the judge called what I had done "a hideous, heinous crime." Thereafter I am behind bars, but I do not yet understand the meaning called the rebirth.

 Anyway it is not me I want to tell you about; I want to tell you about a guy named Andy Dufresne.  But before I can tell you about Andy, I have to explain a few other things about myself. It won't take long.

 As I said, I have been the guy who can get it for you here at Shawshank for damn near forty years.

 I sent various things to various people. And,I do not get all those things gratis, and for some items the price comes high.I was a bagman of the reputation. However,the only two things I refuse to handle are guns and heavy drugs. I won't help anyone kill himself or anyone else. I have enough killing on my mind to last me a lifetime. So when Andy Dufresne came to me in 1949 and asked if I could smuggle Rita Hayworth into the prison for him, I said it would be no problem  at all.

 When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was a short, weat little man with sandy hair and small clever hands. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles. His fingernails were always clipped, and they were always clean. On the outside he had been a vice-president in the trust department of a large Portland bank. Andy was in for murdering his wife and her lover.

 In all my years at Shawshank, There were how many men who insisted themselves innocent. Andy Dufresne was one of them, although I only became comvinced of his innocence over a period of years.

 It was said that Andy knew the immorality of the wife, and he was enraged and had murdered his wife and the lover. And they took four bullets each other. In other words he would repack some  bullet to his gun. This became the important issue at the trial, and he was found guilty,be put behind bars for life.