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Zodiac · 2007 — 第 22 / 30 章 · 5'04" · B2

Graysmith Pitches a Zodiac Book, Explained：fade into a footnote

On the surface it is two colleagues drinking and catching up. Underneath, one is still haunted by the case while the other insists it is over: the killer "wrote a few letters, and he faded into a footnote." The conversation becomes a fight about whether the past still matters.

あらすじ

Graysmith visits Paul Avery for a drink and suggests that someone should write a book about the Zodiac case. Avery, bitter and drinking, says the killer has faded into a footnote and tells him to let it go. Undeterred, Graysmith later approaches Inspector Toschi with his own library research.

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注目の表現

fade into a footnotemust have been magicaljog something loosedrop by

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このシーンの表現

fade into a footnote

to be remembered only as a minor historical detail

艾弗瑞用近乎文学化的说法总结凶手的一生：写了几封信，然后就慢慢被人遗忘，只配当史书里的一条注脚。

The scandal faded into a footnote within a decade.

このシーンの他の表現

  • must have been magical

    a dry, ironic remark meaning the opposite

  • jog something loose

    to help someone suddenly recall something

  • drop by

    to visit someone casually

このシーンのメモ一覧

68 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ

表現 · A2to your healthTo your health and mine.
発音To your health

liaison

To your health and mine.
表現 · A2what's newwhat's new?
表現 · A2write a book about somethingSomebody should write a book.
スラング · C1a fucking bookSomebody should write a fucking book, that's for sure.
表現 · C1jog something loose

to help someone suddenly recall something

I've been thinking that if you put all the information together, maybe you could jog something loose.
表現 · B1put something togetherI've been thinking that if you put all the information together, maybe you could jog something loose.
文法 · B1if you put all the information together

conditional clause with could

I've been thinking that if you put all the information together, maybe you could jog something loose.
表現 · B2nobody knows something better than someoneAnd then I was thinking that nobody knows the case better than you.
文法 · B2nobody knows the case better than you

comparative with a negative subject

And then I was thinking that nobody knows the case better than you.
表現 · B1know all the playersYou know all the players, and you have all the files.
表現 · B1work in the daily businessYou know that we work in the daily business, right?
表現 · A2back thenWhat do you think we were doing back then?
スラング · C1offed a few citizensHe offed a few citizens,
表現 · C1fade into a footnote

to be remembered only as a minor historical detail

he wrote a few letters, and he faded into a footnote.
表現 · B1drop by

to visit someone casually

Not that I haven't been sitting here idly waiting for you to drop by and reinvigorate my sense of purpose.
表現 · B2someone's sense of purposeNot that I haven't been sitting here idly waiting for you to drop by and reinvigorate my sense of purpose.
発音drop by

liaison

Not that I haven't been sitting here idly waiting for you to drop by and reinvigorate my sense of purpose.
表現 · B1do something about itThen, what did you ever do about it?
表現 · B1sorry I bothered youI'm sorry I bothered you.
表現 · B2must have been ...

a dry, ironic remark meaning the opposite

It must have been magical.
表現 · B1I was wondering if I could ...I was wondering if I could buy you lunch.
文法 · B1I was wondering if I could buy you lunch

past continuous for polite requests

I was wondering if I could buy you lunch.
発音wondering if

weak form

I was wondering if I could buy you lunch.
表現 · A2why notSure, why not?
表現 · B2pursue leadsWe're actively pursuing all leads.
表現 · B1hasn't done something in ...Zodiac hasn't written in three years.
文法 · B1hasn't written in three years

present perfect for elapsed time

Zodiac hasn't written in three years.
表現 · A2do research on somethingI've been doing research on the first cipher.
表現 · B1check out a bookwho's ever checked out these books and that's when I found this.

「Graysmith Pitches a Zodiac Book」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a study in two ways of living with an unsolved case. One man needs it to matter; the other has decided it doesn't. Avery waves the whole thing off with "he faded into a footnote," and tells his friend to let it go, but the bitterness in his voice says the case still owns him. Graysmith keeps pushing, asking what anyone ever did and proposing a book that might jog something loose. When the police dismiss him too, he doesn't stop—he goes to the library and finds that nearly every book on ciphers was stolen, which turns a dead case back into a lead. The stubbornness that annoys everyone is exactly what keeps the hunt alive.

Theme

MemoryThe case is years old, yet one man can't leave it alone while the other wants to forget.
JusticeFrustrated by the police, Graysmith keeps chasing the unsolved killings on his own.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The toast is to his health first, then a casual what's new.
  • Graysmith wants a book to jog something loose; Avery tossed the files and moved onto a boat.
  • Avery calls Zodiac a footnote and tells him to let it go.
  • He needles Graysmith for hovering, stealing from wastebaskets, and going to the library.

発音のポイント

  • To your health — liaison
  • drop by — liaison
  • wondering if — weak form
he wrote a few letters, and he faded into a footnote.

Avery's bleak verdict: the killer barely matters anymore and has become a line in the record.

You're wrong. It was important.

Graysmith's flat refusal to accept that the case is over, even when everyone around him has moved on.

Somebody didn't want a record of ever having checked out these books.

From the stolen library books he draws a conclusion: the reader hid his tracks on purpose.

Somebody should write a book.

The suggestion that starts the scene, and the idea Graysmith keeps pursuing long after it is dismissed.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Avery refuse to write the book?

He treats the case as finished, saying the killer wrote a few letters and faded away, and he tells Graysmith to let it go.

Why does Graysmith go to the library?

He thinks the first cipher was built from books an amateur could find, so tracing those books might trace the killer.

What does he find in the library records?

Almost every book on ciphers was missing or stolen from the Presidio and Oakland Army Terminal libraries, as if someone erased the record.

What does Toschi tell Graysmith about the case?

He says Zodiac hasn't written in three years and that the city has plenty of other murders and grieving families to handle.

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