The Catcher in the Rye

Chapter 1

Džerom Dejvid Selindžer
LOVAC U ŽITU
Naslov originala:
J.D. Selinger
The catcher in the rye
Preveo Flavio Rigonat
mojoj majci	To my mother
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Ako vas stvarno zanima sve ovo, verovatno ćete prvo hteti da saznate gde sam rođen, kakvo je bilo moje bezvezno detinjstvo, šta su moji radili u životu pre nego što su me dobili i još masu takvih gluposti a la David Koperfild, ali nisam baš raspoložen da se upuštam u te stvari.	IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Kao prvo, sve mi je to dosadno, a drugo, moji bi se momentalno oduzeli kad bih ispričao nešto ličnije o njima.	In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
Prilično su osetljivi u tom pogledu, pogotovo otac. Dobri su i sve - ne kažem - ali stravično su osetljivi.	They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all―I'm not saying that―but they're also touchy as hell.
Uostalom, neću sad da vam pričam čitavu svoju autobiografiju ili nešto. Ispričaću vam samo ono ludilo kroz koje sam prošao oko Božića, pre nego što sam ozbiljno propao i morao da pređem ovamo da se malo oporavim.	Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
Mislim, to je ono što sam pričao D. B.-u, a on mi je brat i sve. Živi u Holivudu.	I mean that's all I told D.B. about, and he's my brother and all. He's in Hollywood.
Nije daleko od ove rupe, pa mi skoro svakog vikenda dolazi u posetu. Voziće me kad izađem, možda sledećeg meseca. Nedavno je uzeo 'jaguara'. To je onaj mali engleski bolid što ide trista na sat.	That isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every week end. He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe. He just got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.
Koštao ga jedno četiri hiljadarke. Sada je pun para, za promenu. Nekad nije bio. Bio je samo običan pisac, dok je sedeo kod kuće. Napisao je onu fenomenalnu knjigu priča Tajna zlatna ribica, ako slučajno niste čuli za njega.	It cost him damn near four thousand bucks. He's got a lot of dough, now. He didn't use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him.
Najbolja priča u njoj je baš "Tajna zlatna ribica": o nekom klincu koji ne da nikome da vidi njegovu zlatnu ribicu jer ju je kupio za svoj novac. Stvarno me oborila. Sad je tamo u Holivudu, D. B., prodao se. Ako išta mrzim u životu, to su filmovi.	The best one in it was "The Secret Goldfish." It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money. It killed me. Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies.
Bolje da ih ne pominjete. Počeo bih od onog dana kada sam napustio Pensi Prep. To je škola u Edžerstaunu, u Pensilvaniji. Verovatno ste čuli za nju. Videli ste bar reklame ili nešto.	Don't even mention them to me. Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is this school that's in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. You probably heard of it. You've probably seen the ads, anyway.
Reklamiraju je u mali milion časopisa, uz obaveznu sliku nekog dase na konju koji preskače neku ogradu. Kao da se u Pensiju po ceo božji dan samo igra polo.	They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fence. Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time.
Ja nikad nisam video nekog konja čak ni blizu tog mesta. A ispod slike tipa na konju uvek piše: "Još od 1888. oblikujemo dečake u briljantne, oštroumne mlade ljude." Priče za malu decu.	I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place. And underneath the guy on the horse's picture, it always says: "Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men." Strictly for the birds.
Teško da oni ikog oblikuju više nego u ma kojoj drugoj školi. Nisam upoznao nikoga u Pensiju ko bi mogao da se pohvali kako je briljantan, oštrouman ili nešto. Možda dvojicu, a i to je pitanje. Verovatno su bili takvi i kad su dospeli u Pensi.	They don't do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school. And I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pencey that way.
Sve u svemu, bila je subota, dan ragbi-meča protiv Sakson Hola. Od toga se pravio čitav cirkus u Pensiju. To je bio poslednji meč u godini, i očekivalo se da izvršiš samoubistvo ili nešto ako stari Pensi ne pobedi.	Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall. The game with Saxon Hall was supposed to be a very big deal around Pencey. It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
Sećam se da sam oko tri popodne stajao čak na vrhu brda Tomsen, kod onog idiotskog topa što je harao u Ratu za nezavisnost i svuda. Odatle se video čitav teren po kome su jurcale obe ekipe, cepajući se na sve strane.	I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all. You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place.
Tribine nisu bile tako vidljive, ali lepo se čulo kako navijaju, bučno i svi uglas za Pensi - u suštini se čitava škola osim mene skupila tamo - a piskavo i jadno za Sakson Hol, jer su gosti retko dovlačili svoje ljude.	You couldn't see the grandstand too hot, but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side, because the visiting team hardly ever brought many people with them.
Na ragbi-mečevima nikada nije bilo mnogo devojaka. Samo su maturanti mogli da ih dovode. Jeziva škola, kako god okreneš.	There were never many girls at all at the football games. Only seniors were allowed to bring girls with them. It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it.
Volim mesta gde bar možeš da vidiš poneku devojku s vremena na vreme, pa makar se one samo češale po rukama, ili izduvavale noseve, ili se samo kikotale, bilo šta. Selma Tarmer, kćerka direktora škole, pojavljivala se dosta često na tribinama, mada nije baš bila neka za kojom bi se čovek pomamio.	I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something. Old Selma Thurmer―she was the headmaster's daughter―showed up at the games quite often, but she wasn't exactly the type that drove you mad with desire.
Ipak, nije bila loša.	She was a pretty nice girl, though.
Sedeo sam jednom pored nje u autobusu iz Edžerstauna, pa smo kao odvojili neki razgovor. Dopala mi se.	I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation. I liked her.
Imala je veliki nos i nokte izgrižene do krvi, i nosila one sulude lažne grudi što štrče na sve strane, ali budila je neku simpatiju. Dopalo mi se što ne guši čoveka pričama o tome kakva je sila njen otac. Verovatno je znala koliko je taj kreten dvoličan.	She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry for her. What I liked about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was. She probably knew what a phony slob he was.
Stajao sam gore na vrhu brda Tomsen umesto dole na tribinama zato što sam tek stigao iz Njujorka, sa mačevalačkom ekipom. Bio sam im kao neki menadžer. Jaka stvar.	The reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game, was because I'd just got back from New York with the fencing team. I was the goddam manager of the fencing team. Very big deal.

Otišli smo tog jutra u Njujork, na mačevalački dvoboj sa školom MekBerni. Ali nije došlo do dvoboja. Ostavio sam mačeve i opremu i sve ostalo u prokletom metrou.	We'd gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with McBurney School. Only, we didn't have the meet. I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway.
Nisam baš sve ja bio kriv. Morao sam svaki čas da ustajem i gledam u onu mapu, da bismo znali gde da siđemo. I tako smo se vratili u Pensi oko pola tri, umesto za večeru. Čitava ekipa bojkotovala me čitavim putem natrag u vozu. Komično je bilo, u neku ruku.	It wasn't all my fault. I had to keep getting up to look at this map, so we'd know where to get off. So we got back to Pencey around two-thirty instead of around dinnertime. The whole team ostracized me the whole way back on the train. It was pretty funny, in a way.
Drugi razlog što nisam dole na utakmici bio je što sam pošao da se oprostim sa starim Spenserom, mojim profesorom istorije. Imao je kao grip, pa sam nešto mislio da ga verovatno ne bih ni video do boži'nog raspusta.	The other reason I wasn't down at the game was because I was on my way to say good-by to old Spencer, my history teacher. He had the grippe, and I figured I probably wouldn't see him again till Christmas vacation started.
Napisao mi je poruku kako želi da me vidi pre nego što odem kući. Znao je da se ne vraćam u Pensi.	He wrote me this note saying he wanted to see me before I went home. He knew I wasn't coming back to Pencey.
To sam zaboravio da vam kažem. Izbacili su me.	I forgot to tell you about that. They kicked me out.
Nije ni trebalo da se vratim posle raspusta, jer sam pao iz četiri predmeta, a nisam baš grejao stolicu ili nešto. Stalno su me opominjali da zagrejem stolicu - posebno oko tromesečja, kad su moji bili na razgovoru sa starim Tarmerom - ali ništa od mene.	I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all. They gave me frequent warning to start applying myself―especially around midterms, when my parents came up for a conference with old Thurmer―but I didn't do it.
I tako sam dobio nogu. Nisam bio ni prvi ni poslednji koga su šutnuli odatle. Pensi se prilično visoko kotira kao obrazovna ustanova. Najozbiljnije.	So I got the ax. They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey. It has a very good academic rating, Pencey. It really does.
Sve u svemu, bio je decembar i hladno kao na veštičjoj sisi, pogotovo na vrhu tog prokletog brda. Imao sam samo mantil, bez rukavica ili nečega. Nedelju dana pre toga, neko mi je ukrao kaput od kamilhara direktno iz sobe, sve sa krznenim rukavicama u džepu.	Anyway, it was December and all, and it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill. I only had on my reversible and no gloves or anything. The week before that, somebody'd stolen my camel's-hair coat right out of my room, with my fur-lined gloves right in the pocket and all.
Pensi je bio pun lopova. Dobar deo učenika bio je iz onih veoma bogatih porodica, ali je Pensi svejedno bio pun lopova. Što je škola skuplja, to je više lopova u njoj - najozbiljnije.	Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these very wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has―I'm not kidding.
Sve u svemu, stajao sam i dalje kod tog idiotskog topa, gledao dole na teren i smrzavao dupe. Ali nisam baš mnogo pratio igru. Nacrtao sam se tu zato što sam u suštini pokušavao da osetim kako se opraštam i sve. Mislim, napuštao sam već razne škole i mesta, a da uopšte nisam znao da ih napuštam.	Anyway, I kept standing next to that crazy cannon, looking down at the game and freezing my ass off. Only, I wasn't watching the game too much. What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them.
Mrzim to. Nije bitno da li je rastanak tužan ili ružan, ali kad napuštam neko mesto, volim da znam da ga napuštam. Ako ne znaš, još ti je gore.	I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.
Imao sam sreće. Odjednom mi je palo na pamet nešto što me učinilo svesnim da odlazim bestraga odatle. Slučajno sam se setio kako smo, negde u oktobru, Robert Tičener, Pol Kembel i ja pikali loptu ispred škole.	I was lucky. All of a sudden I thought of something that helped make me know I was getting the hell out. I suddenly remembered this time, in around October, that I and Robert Tichener and Paul Campbell were chucking a football around, in front of the academic building.
Dobri su bili njih dvojica, posebno Tičener. Bilo je pred večeru i već dosta mračno napolju, a mi smo svejedno pikali dalje. Postajalo je sve mračnije i mračnije, jedva smo i videli loptu, ali nije nam se prestajalo.	They were nice guys, especially Tichener. It was just before dinner and it was getting pretty dark out, but we kept chucking the ball around anyway. It kept getting darker and darker, and we could hardly see the ball any more, but we didn't want to stop doing what we were doing.
Na kraju smo morali. Profesor biologije, g. Zambezi, promolio je glavu kroz neki prozor na školi i rekao nam da se pokupimo u sobe i spremimo za večeru. Eto, ako se setim tako nečeg, mogu da se oprostim kad god mi zatreba - bar u većini slučajeva.	Finally we had to. This teacher that taught biology, Mr. Zambesi, stuck his head out of this window in the academic building and told us to go back to the dorm and get ready for dinner. If I get a chance to remember that kind of stuff, I can get a good-by when I need one―at least, most of the time I can.
Čim sam se oprostio, okrenuo sam se i počeo da trčim niz drugu stranu brda, prema kući starog Spensera. On nije živeo u krugu škole. Živeo je na Aveniji Entoni Vejna.	As soon as I got it, I turned around and started running down the other side of the hill, toward old Spencer's house. He didn't live on the campus. He lived on Anthony Wayne Avenue.
Trčao sam čitavim puteni do glavne kapije, a onda zastao na sekund, da udahnem malo. Često gubim dah, moram da priznam. Kao prvo, težak sam pušač - mislim, bio sam. Naterali su me da prestanem. A drugo - porastao sam šesnaest santimetara u toku prošle godine. I to je razlog što sam u suštini dobio TBC i dospeo ovamo na sve te proklete preglede i ostalo. Inače sam prilično zdrav.	I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing―that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. That's also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I'm pretty healthy, though.
Sve u svemu, čim sam povratio dah, pretrčao sam preko autoputa 204. Bio je gadno zaleđen i malo je falilo da tresnem.	Anyway, as soon as I got my breath back I ran across Route 204. It was icy as hell and I damn near fell down.
Pojma nemam zašto sam trčao - tako mi došlo, valjda. Kad sam pretrčao autoput, osetio sam nekako kao da nestajem. Bilo je neko suludo popodne, bez sunca ili nečega, i osećao si kao da nestaješ kad god pređeš preko nekog puta.	I don't even know what I was running for―I guess I just felt like it. After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
Ljudi moji, kako sam legao na zvono kad sam stigao do kuće starog Spensera. Stvarno sam se sledio. Uši su me bolele i jedva sam mrdao prstima. "Hajde, hajde", gotovo sam viknuo, "otvorite vrata.	Boy, I rang that doorbell fast when I got to old Spencer's house. I was really frozen. My ears were hurting and I could hardly move my fingers at all. "C'mon, c'mon," I said right out loud, almost, "somebody open the door." Finally old Mrs.
" Najzad ih je stara gđa Spenser i otvorila. Nisu imali ženu ili nekoga, i uvek su sami otvarali vrata. Nisu baš imali para.	Spencer opened. it. They didn't have a maid or anything, and they always opened the door themselves. They didn't have too much dough.
"Holdene!" rekla je gđa Spenser. "Baš mi je drago što te vidim! Uđi, dušo! Mora da si se živ smrznuo." Mislim da joj je zaista bilo drago što me vidi. Volela me. Bar mi se tako činilo.	"Holden!" Mrs. Spencer said. "How lovely to see you! Come in, dear! Are you frozen to death?" I think she was glad to see me. She liked me. At least, I think she did.
Ljudi moji, bukvalno sam utrčao unutra. "Kako ste, gospođo Spenser?" rekoh. "Kako je gospodin Spenser?"	Boy, did I get in that house fast. "How are you, Mrs. Spencer?" I said. "How's Mr. Spencer?"
"Daj mi tvoj mantil, dušo", rekla je. Nije me čula kad sam pitao za g. Spensera. Bila je malo nagluva.	"Let me take your coat, dear," she said. She didn't hear me ask her how Mr. Spencer was. She was sort of deaf.
Okačila mi je mantil u plakar, a ja sam kao zagladio kosu. Obično sam kratko ošišan pa nikad ne moram da se nešto češljam. "Kako ste inače, gospođo Spenser?" ponovio sam, ali glasnije, da bi me čula.	She hung up my coat in the hall closet, and I sort of brushed my hair back with my hand. I wear a crew cut quite frequently and I never have to comb it much. "How've you been, Mrs. Spencer?" I said again, only louder, so she'd hear me.
"Dobro sam, sasvim dobro, Holdene." Zatvorila je plakar. "A kako si mi ti?" Po načinu na koji je pitala odmah sam znao da joj je stari Spenser rekao da sam izbačen.	"I've been just fine, Holden." She closed the closet door. "How have you been?" The way she asked me, I knew right away old Spencer'd told her I'd been kicked out.
"Dobro", rekoh. "Kako je gospodin Spenser? Je l' prebrodio taj grip?"	"Fine," I said. "How's Mr. Spencer? He over his grippe yet?"
"Prebrodio? Holdene, on se ponaša kao pravi - ni sama ne znam šta... Eno ga u svojoj sobi, dušo. Slobodno uđi."	"Over it! Holden, he's behaving like a perfect―I don't know what ... He's in his room, dear. Go right in."

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