In the evening, Levane came to the Grofiens couple's house with the big yellow cat in his arms, but unexpectedly met friends who had come to the professor's house, and the professor and his wife warmly invited Levane to stay for dinner.

But here, Levine looks out of place. Because this is a group of people who have received higher education and enjoy classical music, and folk songs come from the poor on the lower streets.

After dinner, Lillian-Grofiens warmly invited Levien to perform a song, and although Levien was reluctant to do so—his music was not a little piece of music for after-dinner entertainment, but an artistic and dreamy pursuit;

So, Levien took the guitar and began to play the song "Wave goodbye". He himself didn't know why he chose this song. Maybe it's a habit, a habit that goes deep into the blood.

His fingertips played on the strings, and the corners of his mouth showed a helpless arc, and he hummed softly, "If I could spread my wings like Noah's dove...... I will cross the river and pursue the ...... beloved."

A faint bitterness and vicissitudes of life were revealed in the deep voice, and this song was the second soundtrack of the opening, the vinyl record that Levine found at the Grofiens family, the song he sang with Mike.

But unlike the opening melody, Levine's singing at this moment is so sad and lonely, and it seems that the deep scars of the soul can be seen in the lingering sound, and Emily can't help but slowly immerse herself in Levien's world.

For the first time, she understood the cry and roar in Levine's heart, about Jane, about Mike, about music, about life, the power of the soul seeped out little by little, but before she could go any deeper, a harmony came from her ears, from Lillian.

"Wave goodbye...... Farewell......"

"My love...... Lovers ......"

Levien's singing was interrupted, and he voluntarily stopped playing and began to question Lillian.

Lillian said puzzled, "That's Mike's part. ”

"Don't do it. Levien's voice trembled slightly, revealing a hint of unbearable pain.

In an instant, Emily was crushed, and without warning, she raised her right hand and covered her mouth, and the tears kept rolling down her face. She understood the sadness and bitterness behind the song, she understood the vicissitudes and scars in Levine's singing, and she also understood the helplessness and confusion in the depths of Levien's soul.

Levine erupted.

Levien vented all his anger on Lillian, rudely and rudely ruining Grofiennes' dinner, and the scene suddenly became ugly, but he didn't care, and unreasonably vented all his negative emotions.

What's even more ridiculous is that the big yellow cat is not Groferns' cat. Because their cats are males. The cat that Levien brought back was a female.

In the chaos of the scene, Emily cried more and more sadly, just like this look at Levine like a trapped beast, going around in the city of New York, rushing left and right, but after all, he still couldn't break free, his dream, like a dream of light, but after all, it still couldn't penetrate the layers of dark clouds and fall, and the world was still in chaos.

At this moment, a handkerchief was handed to her right, and Emily turned her head in shock, and then saw Steven Spielberg with a sad face.

Steven didn't speak, just shrugged his shoulders slightly, handed the handkerchief to Emily, and then didn't say anything more, he turned his head to look at the big screen again, quietly blending into the world in front of him. The eyes behind the spectacle lenses flickered with a faint sadness, surging faintly, as if they were caught in deep memories and unable to extricate themselves.

For young Emily, this is Levine's story.

For the elder Steven, this is his own story.

Levine left New York and headed for Chicago.

Al Cody had mentioned that a friend was heading to Chicago in the hope of bringing one more person with him to split the cost of gas, and at the time Levine expressed disdain, he would have preferred to stay in New York, but now, after all, he chose to go to Chicago with the big yellow cat whose name he didn't know and didn't know the owner.

It's been a very, very strange ride.

The driver is a taciturn tough guy and the passenger is a fat old man who is asleep all the time. There was silence in the whole carriage, and they didn't even introduce each other, they didn't even know each other's names, and they just walked along the road.

The old man finally woke up, full of foul mouth and spikes, "Ballads? I thought you were a musician." Folk singer with cat, are you Kee?"

For the ballad, the old man was full of contempt and disdain, and launched an attack with full firepower throughout the whole process.

But for the first time, Levine mentions Mike, his former partner, "who jumped off the George Washington Bridge." ”

The old man paused slightly, "Oh shit, I don't blame him. Without me, I couldn't stand playing 'Jimmy-Crack-Corn' every night. ”

"Jimmy Breaks Corn" is an American children's song.

"Oh, sorry, please forgive me, but that's stupid, isn't it?" Just when everyone thought the old man was apologizing for the nursery rhyme, he shattered the illusion, "George Washington Bridge? Generally speaking, the Brooklyn Bridge is chosen, right? George Washington Bridge? Who would do that? What's wrong with him? Idiot?"

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

They revere traditional music such as jazz and soul, despise the new type of music represented by folk songs, and even go further, exclude the poor and low-class people represented by folk songs, and maintain their middle and even high lives with grace and pride, wealth and dignity, and refuse to be in the same league as those who live in Greenwich Village.

"Clean-Asshole-Poems," he spoke for the first time just when everyone thought the tough guy was a mute, "Orlovsky." ”

Peter-Orlovsky, the famous American poet and actor, Beat Generation, and the lifelong companion of poet Alan Ginsburg, the protagonist of the film "Kill Your Love". The full title of the poem is "The Song of Clean Bastards/Eggs and Smiling Vegetables".

"Then, he starred in ...... 'The-Brig'. "It's a surreal drama of the sixties about the atrocities in the Marines prison.

Obviously, the old man represents a group, the middle class who enjoy the comfortable status quo, while the tough guy represents another group, the Beat Generation, and the group represented by Levien, the folk poets.

The three people, representing three groups, are all products of the background of the times, adapting or confronting or integrating into this society in their own ways, but they have invisibly become the cornerstone of the times, become a part of the times, and consciously and unconsciously promote the progress of the times.

Then, the old man was in the toilet/snorted/drugged/overdosed, foaming at the mouth and fainted, and Levine unexpectedly found out. Before that, every rest stop must have stopped, and every relief time must have been extraordinarily long, and now all have been explained—the old man, who seemed to be full of care, was drunk and dreamed of death in his own comfortable life.

Then, the three of them were back on the road. The tough guy was suspected of drunk driving, and the police/police force him to pull over, and although he did not drink, a verbal altercation with the police/police resulted in him being forcibly taken away. Looking at the police car that was leaving, Levine was also confused.

Then, Levine got out of the car with his guitar. Looking into the eyes of the big yellow cat, hesitating and hesitating, Levane finally closed the door, left it with the old man, and went on his own, stopped a car on the side of the road, and got back on the road.

Three people, three endings.

In the dark, it guides the different directions and endings of the times. Emily subconsciously turned her head to look at Steven, and then saw Steven's contemplative expression, between the light and shadow of the big screen, it seemed that the whole person had entered the whirlpool of that era, unable to extricate himself.

The camera returns to Levine.

Alone, in the snow and ice, Levine arrived in Chicago. I didn't have a winter coat, I shivered in the cold wind, but I accidentally stepped on the snowdrift, and my whole shoe was like a boat, so wet that I couldn't get rid of it.

Curled up in a café, filling your stomach with an infinite refill of bad coffee, taking off your shoes in embarrassment, rubbing against the soles of your feet to keep warm, but a cup of coffee didn't warm your body, and then sneaking up on the phone to Bard Grossman's Gate-Of-Horn bar without daring to visit it in person.

After thinking about it, he still chose to turn around and came to the train station with nothing to do, hesitating whether he should go back to New York, but he fell asleep on the bench because he was too tired. As a result, he was targeted by the patrol police, suspecting him of being an outlaw, and in the midst of your chase, he came to the Horn Gate bar again.

He was like a spinning top, whipped and spinning, rushing left and right, but never able to find his own direction. The snow and ice in Chicago kept him from finding any shelter, not even a decent coat.

After an hour of waiting, he waited for Bard, plucked up the courage to introduce himself, cheekily promoted himself, and finally won the opportunity to perform in front of Bard.

But the affectionate and touching song "The Death of Queen Jane", sung gently and affectionately, it seems that even the temperature of the soul is hidden in the notes of the strings, sad and sleepy, but in exchange for only one sentence, "I don't see any commercial value." ”

"Okay. Levine said.

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