ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ed Gavagan - Designer, Storyteller
Ed Gavagan was walking down the street in downtown Manhattan when he was the victim of a gang assignment to kill a random stranger. He lives to tell the amazing story.

Why you should listen

Ed Gavagan is the owner of PraxisNYC, a design firm specializing in boutique residences and aimed at designing for sustainability, habitability, durability and beauty. In 2007 Gavagan told the story “Drowning on Sullivan Street” at the Moth, the series devoted to stories told live without notes, about his near-death experience on the streets of New York as the victim of a gang initiation rite. His stories have been heard on NPR and the Moth podcast, and he has appeared onstage with the Moth in events across the U.S. Gavagan lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

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TEDMED 2012

Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons

Ed Gavagan: Priča o čvorovima i kirurzima

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Jednog se dana Ed Gavagan vozio podzemnom i gledao kako dvoje mladih studenata medicine vježba vezivanje čvorova. Preplavilo ga je snažno sjećanje - o šokantnom trenutku koji mu je zauvijek promijenio život. Nevjerojatna priča o zločinu, vještini i zahvalnosti.
- Designer, Storyteller
Ed Gavagan was walking down the street in downtown Manhattan when he was the victim of a gang assignment to kill a random stranger. He lives to tell the amazing story. Full bio

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You know, we wakeprobuditi up in the morningjutro,
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Znate, probudite se ujutro,
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you get dressedobučen, put on your shoescipele,
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odjenete se, obujete,
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you headglava out into the worldsvijet.
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krenete u svijet.
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You planplan on comingdolazak back, gettinguzimajući undressedgol,
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Planirate se vratiti, razodjenuti,
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going to bedkrevet,
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otići u krevet,
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wakingBudi up, doing it again,
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probuditi se, napraviti sve ponovno.
00:35
and that anticipationiščekivanje, that rhythmritam,
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I to nam iščekivanje, taj ritam,
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helpspomaže give us a structurestruktura
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daje strukturu načinu
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to how we organizeorganizirati ourselvessebe and our livesživot,
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na koji organiziramo sami sebe i svoje živote
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and givesdaje it a measuremjera of predictabilitypredvidljivost.
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te mu daje mjeru predvidljivosti.
00:48
LivingDnevni in NewNovi YorkYork CityGrad, as I do,
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Živjeti u New Yorku, kao što ja živim,
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it's almostskoro as if, with so manymnogi people doing so manymnogi things
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s toliko ljudi koji rade toliko stvari
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at the sameisti time in suchtakav closeblizu quartersčetvrtine,
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u isto vrijeme u tako bliskim životnim prostorima,
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it's almostskoro like life is dealingbavljenje you extraekstra handsruke
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skoro je kao da vam život daje dodatne ruke
01:04
out of that deckpaluba.
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kako bi vam pomogao.
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You're never, there's just, juxtapositionsjuxtapositions are possiblemoguće
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Moguća su dodirivanja, preklapanja,
01:10
that just aren'tnisu, you don't think they're going to happendogoditi se.
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koja jednostavno nisu, ne mislite da će se dogoditi.
01:15
And you never think you're going to be the guy
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Nikad ne mislite da ćete biti onaj
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who'stko je walkinghodanje down the streetulica
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koji hoda ulicom
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and, because you chooseizabrati to go down one sidestrana or the other,
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i zato što odabere ići jednom stranom ili drugom,
01:23
the restodmor of your life is changedpromijenjen foreverzauvijek.
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ostatak života mu se zauvijek promijeni.
01:26
And one night, I'm ridingjahanje the uptownu gradu locallokalne trainvlak.
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Jedne noći vozio sam se lokalnim vlakom.
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I get on. I tendskloni to be a little bitbit vigilantbudan
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Ukrcao sam se. Obično sam malo oprezniji
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when I get on the subwaypodzemna željeznica.
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kad uđem u podzemnu željeznicu.
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I'm not one of the people zoningzoniranje out with headphonesslušalice
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Nisam jedan od ljudi koji se isključe sa slušalicama
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or a bookrezervirati.
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ili knjigom.
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And I get on the carautomobil, and I look, and I
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Ušao sam u vagon
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noticeobavijest this couplepar,
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i ugledao jedan par,
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college-agedCollege-u dobi, student-lookingStudentski potrazi kidsdjeca,
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fakultetske dobi, klinci studentskog izgleda,
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a guy and a girldjevojka, and they're sittingsjedenje nextSljedeći to eachsvaki other,
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momka i djevojku koji su sjedili jedno kraj drugog,
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and she's got her legnoga drapedzamotan over his kneekoljeno,
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a njena je noga bila prebačena
preko njegovog koljena.
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and they're doing -- they have this little contraptionnovatorstvo,
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Imali su tu spravicu
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and they're tyingvezanje these knotsčvorova,
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i vezivali čvorove
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and they're doing it with one handruka,
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i radili su to jednom rukom,
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they're doing it left-handedljevak and right-handeddešnjak very quicklybrzo,
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i lijevom i desnom rukom vrlo brzo,
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and then she'llljuska handruka the thing to him and he'llpakao do it.
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a zatim je ona pružila spravu njemu
i onda je on to radio.
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I've never seenvidio anything like this.
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Nikad nisam vidio nešto slično tome.
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It's almostskoro like they're practicingvježbanje magicmagija tricksUmjesto.
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Skoro kao da vježbaju mađioničarske trikove.
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And at the nextSljedeći stop, a guy getsdobiva on the carautomobil,
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Na idućoj stanici u vagon je ušao jedan tip,
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and he has this sortvrsta of visitinggostujući professorprofesor look to him.
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a nekako je izgledao poput gostujućeg profesora.
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He's got the overstuffedprepunjeni leatherkoža satcheltorba
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Imao je pretrpanu kožnu torbu,
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and the rectangularpravokutni filedatoteka casespis and a laptoplaptop bagtorba
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pravokutan spremnik za spise, torbu za laptop
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and the tweedtvid jacketjakna with the leatherkoža patcheszakrpe,
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i jaknu od tvida s kožnim zakrpama,
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and — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
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he looksizgled at them, and then
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pogledao ih je i onda je
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in a blinktreptati of an eyeoko, he kneelskleči down in frontispred of them,
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u tren oka kleknuo pred njih
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and he startspočinje to say,
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i počeo govoriti:
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"You know, listen, here'sevo how you can do it. Look,
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"Slušajte, možete to ovako raditi. Gledajte,
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if you do this -- " and he takes the lacesvezice out of theirnjihov handruka,
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ako napravite ovo -- " i uzeo im je vezice iz ruku,
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and instantlyodmah, he startspočinje tyingvezanje these knotsčvorova,
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i odmah počeo vezati čvorove,
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and even better than they were doing it, remarkablyizvanredno.
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još spretnije nego što su oni to radili, začuđujuće.
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And it turnsokreti out they are medicalmedicinski studentsstudenti
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Ispalo je da su oni studenti medicine
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on theirnjihov way to a lecturepredavanje about the latestnajnoviji
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na putu na predavanje o najnovijim
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suturingiskustva techniquesTehnike, and he's the guy givingdavanje the lecturepredavanje.
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tehnikama šivanja, a on je tip koji drži predavanje.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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So he startspočinje to tell them, and he's like,
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Počeo im je pričati:
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"No, this is very importantvažno here. You know,
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"Ne, ovo je jako bitno. Znate,
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when you're needingsiromaštvo these knotsčvorova,
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kad vam zatrebaju ovi čvorovi,
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it's going to be, you know, everything'ssve je
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bit će, znate,
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going to be happeningdogađa at the sameisti time, it's going to be --
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sve će se događati u isto vrijeme --
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you're going to have all this informationinformacija comingdolazak at you,
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imat ćete sve te informacije koje će dolaziti,
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there's going to be organsorgana gettinguzimajući in the way,
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organi će vam biti na putu,
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it's going to be slipperyklizav,
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bit će klizavo,
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and
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i
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it's just very importantvažno that you be ableu stanju to do these
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jako je bitno da ih možete napraviti
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beyondIznad seconddrugi naturepriroda, eachsvaki handruka, left handruka, right handruka,
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veoma vješto, obje ruke, lijeva ruka, desna ruka,
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you have to be ableu stanju to do them withoutbez seeingvidim your fingersprsti."
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morate ih moći napraviti bez da vidite svoje prste."
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And at that momenttrenutak, when I heardčuo that,
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U tom trenutku, kad sam to čuo,
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I just got catapultedkatapultiran out of the subwaypodzemna željeznica carautomobil into a night
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odbačen sam iz vagona u noć
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when I had been gettinguzimajući a ridevožnja in an ambulancehitna pomoć
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kad sam bio u vozilu hitne,
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from the sidewalktrotoar where I had been stabbedizbo
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nakon što sam izboden na pločniku,
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to the traumatraume roomsoba of StSt. Vincent'sVincent's HospitalBolnica in ManhattanManhattan,
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na putu za traumatologiju
bolnice Sv. Vincenta na Manhattanu.
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and what had happeneddogodilo was
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Što se dogodilo?
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a gangbanda had come in from BrooklynBrooklyn.
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Jedna je banda došla iz Brooklyna.
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As partdio of an initiationiniciranje for threetri of theirnjihov membersčlanovi,
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Kao dio inicijacije, trojica njihovih članova
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they had to killubiti somebodyneko,
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morala su ubiti nekog,
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and I happeneddogodilo to be the guy walkinghodanje down BleeckerBleecker StreetUlica
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a ja sam bio tip koji je hodao ulicom Bleecker
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that night,
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te noći
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and they jumpedskočio on me withoutbez a wordriječ.
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i zaskočili su me bez riječi.
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One of the very luckysretan things,
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Imao sam sreće jer,
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when I was at NotreNotre DameDame, I was on the boxingboks teamtim,
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kad sam bio na Notre Dameu,
bio sam u boksačkom timu
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so I put my handsruke up right away, instinctivelynagonski.
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pa sam istog trena podigao ruke, instinktivno.
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The guy on the right had a knifenož with a 10-inch-palac bladeoštrica,
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Tip zdesna imao je nož s oštricom dugom 25 cm,
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and he wentotišao in underpod my elbowlakat,
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zario ga je ispod mog lakta
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and it wentotišao up and cutrez my inferiorslabije venavena cavaCava.
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i porezao mi je donju šuplju venu.
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If you know anything about anatomyanatomija,
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Ako znate išta o anatomiji,
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that's not a good thing to get cutrez,
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nije dobro to prerezati
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and everything, of coursenaravno, on the way up,
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i, naravno, sve iznad toga,
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and then — I still had my handsruke up —
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i onda -- i dalje sam imao ruke gore --
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he pulledizvukao it out and wentotišao for my neckvrat,
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izvukao ga je i krenuo prema mom vratu,
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and sunkudubljen it in up to the hiltdrške in my neckvrat,
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zabio ga skroz do drška u moj vrat.
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and I got one straightravno right punchudarac
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Uspio sam zadati jedan izravan desni udarac
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and knockedpokucao the middlesrednji guy out.
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i srušio srednjeg tipa.
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The other guy was still workingrad on me,
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Drugi je tip i dalje radio na meni,
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collapsingurušavanja my other lungpluća,
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urušavajući moje drugo plućno krilo,
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and I managedupravlja to, by hittingudaranje that guy, to get a minuteminuta.
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i uspio sam, udarivši tog tipa, dobiti minutu vremena.
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I ranran down the streetulica and collapsedpropali,
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Potrčao sam niz ulicu i srušio se,
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and the ambulancehitna pomoć guys intubatedjasnije vidjeti me on the sidewalktrotoar
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a ljudi iz hitne intubirali su me na pločniku
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and let the traumatraume roomsoba know
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i javili traumatologiji
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they had an incomingdolazni.
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da imaju dolazećeg pacijenta.
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And one of the
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Jedna od
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sidestrana effectsefekti of havingima majorglavni massivemasivan bloodkrv lossgubitak
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nuspojava kad izgubite mnogo krvi
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is you get tunneltunel visionvizija,
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jest tunelski vid,
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so I rememberzapamtiti beingbiće on the stretchernosila
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tako da se sjećam da sam bio na nosilima
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and havingima a little nickel-sizednikal-određena mjera conekonus of visionvizija,
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i da sam vidio kao da gledam kroz špijunku
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and I was movingkreće my headglava around
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i pomicao sam glavom okolo.
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and we got to StSt. Vincent'sVincent's,
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Stigli smo do Sv. Vincenta
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and we're racingtrkaći down this hallwayhodnik,
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i jurili hodnikom,
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and I see the lightssvjetla going,
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vidio sam kako se svjetla pale
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and it's a peculiarosebujan effectposljedica of memoriessjećanja like that.
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i to je zanimljiv učinak takvih sjećanja.
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They don't really go to the usualuobičajen placemjesto that memoriessjećanja go.
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Ne idu zapravo na mjesto gdje sjećanja inače idu.
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They kindljubazan of have this vaulttrezor where they're storedpohranjene in high-defpovisok-def,
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Kao da postoji nekakav trezor
gdje su spremljena u visokoj rezoluciji,
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and GeorgeGeorge LucasLucas did all the soundzvuk effectsefekti. (LaughterSmijeh)
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a George Lucas je radio sve zvučne efekte.
(Smijeh)
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So sometimesponekad, rememberingsjećanja them, it's like,
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Ponekad kad ih se sjećamo,
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it's not like any other kindljubazan of memoriessjećanja.
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ona nekako nisu poput drugih vrsta sjećanja.
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And I get into the traumatraume roomsoba,
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Ušao sam u šok sobu
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and they're waitingčekanje for me, and the lightssvjetla are there,
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i čekali su me, i svjetla su bila tamo,
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and I'd been ableu stanju to breathedisati a little more now,
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mogao sam tad disati malo više
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because the bloodkrv has left, had been fillingpunjenje up my lungspluća
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jer je otekla krv koja je ispunjavala moja pluća
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and I was havingima a very hardteško time breathingdisanje,
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i imao sam velike poteškoće s disanjem,
06:19
but now it's kindljubazan of goneotišao into the stretchernosila.
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ali tad je nekako prešla u nosila.
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And I said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
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Rekao sam: "Mogu li nešto učiniti da pomognem?"
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and — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
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the nursemedicinska sestra kindljubazan of had a hystericalhisteričan laughsmijeh, and
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sestra se nekako počela histerično smijati,
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I'm turningtokarenje my headglava tryingtežak to see everybodysvi,
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okretao sam glavu pokušavajući sve vidjeti,
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and I had this weirdčudan memorymemorija of beingbiće in collegekoledž
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i imao sam čudno sjećanje kako sam bio na fakultetu
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and raisingpodizanje,
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i prikupljao,
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raisingpodizanje moneynovac for the floodpoplava victimsžrtve of BangladeshBangladeš,
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prikupljao sam novac za žrtve poplave u Bangladešu.
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and then I look over and my anesthesiologistanesteziolog
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Tada sam vidio kako mi anesteziolog
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is clampingstezanje the maskmaska on me, and I think,
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stavlja masku i pomislio:
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"He looksizgled BangladeshiBangladeški," — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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"Izgleda nekako bangladeški." -- (Smijeh) --
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and I just have those two factsčinjenicama, and I just think,
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a imao sam samo te dvije činjenice i mislim:
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"This could work somehownekako." (LaughterSmijeh)
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"Ovo bi moglo ići." (Smijeh)
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And then I go out, and
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I onda sam se onesvijestio,
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they work on me for the restodmor of the night,
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a oni su radili na meni ostatak noći,
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and I neededpotreban about 40 unitsjedinice of bloodkrv to keep me there
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i trebao sam oko 40 jedinica krvi
da me održe na životu
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while they did theirnjihov work,
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dok su radili svoj posao.
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and the surgeonkirurg tookuzeo out about a thirdtreći of my intestinescrijeva,
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Kirurg je izvadio oko trećinu mojih crijeva,
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my cecumcrijevo, organsorgana I didn't know that I had,
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slijepo crijevo, organe za koje
nisam ni znao da ih imam,
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and he laterkasnije told me one of the last things he did
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i kasnije je rekao da mi je za kraj
07:19
while he was in there was to removeukloniti my appendixslijepo crijevo for me,
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dok je bio unutra izvadio crvuljak,
07:22
whichkoji I thought was great, you know,
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što sam smatrao odličnim, znate,
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just a little tidyuredan thing there at the endkraj. (LaughterSmijeh)
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samo mala stvarčica tamo na kraju.
(Smijeh)
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And I camedošao to in the morningjutro.
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Osvijestio sam se ujutro.
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Out of anestheticanestetik, he had let them know
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Bez anestetika, dao mi je do znanja
07:33
that he wanted to be there, and he had givendan me
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da je htio biti tamo i dao mi je
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about a two percentposto chanceprilika of livingživot.
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oko 2% šanse za preživljavanje.
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So he was there when I wokeprobudio up,
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and it was, wakingBudi up was like
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a buđenje je bilo poput
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breakinglom throughkroz the iceled into a frozenzamrznut lakejezero of painbol.
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probijanja leda u zaleđeno jezero boli.
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It was that envelopingkoji okružuje,
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Bilo je sveobuhvatno,
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and there was only one spotmjesto that didn't hurtpovrijediti
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i samo me jedan dio nije bolio
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worsegore than anything I'd ever feltosjećala,
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gore od ičega što sam ikad osjetio,
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and it was my instepgornji dio stopala,
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a to je bio moj taban.
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and he was holdingdržanje the archluk of my footnoga
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Držao je luk mog stopala
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and rubbingtrljanje the instepgornji dio stopala with his thumbpalac.
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i trljao taban svojim palcem.
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And I lookedgledao up, and he's like,
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Pogledao sam prema gore, a on je rekao:
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"Good to see you,"
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"Drago mi je vidjeti te",
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and I was tryingtežak to rememberzapamtiti what had happeneddogodilo
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a ja sam se pokušavao sjetiti što se dogodilo
08:15
and tryingtežak to get my headglava around everything,
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i pokušavao shvatiti sve.
08:17
and the painbol was just overwhelmingneodoljiv, and he said,
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Bol je bila jednostavno prejaka, a on je rekao:
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"You know, we didn't cutrez your hairdlaka. I thought
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"Znaš, nismo te šišali. Mislio sam
08:24
you mightmoć have gottendobivši strengthsnaga from your hairdlaka like SamsonSamson,
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da možda dobivaš snagu
od svoje kose poput Samsona,
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and you're going to need all the strengthsnaga you can get."
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a trebat će ti sva snaga koju možeš dobiti."
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And in those daysdana, my hairdlaka was down to my waiststruk,
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Tada sam imao kosu do struka,
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I drovestado a motorcyclemotorcikl, I was unmarriedneoženjen,
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vozio sam motor, nisam bio neoženjen,
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I ownedvlasništvu a barbar, so those were differentdrugačiji timesputa. (LaughterSmijeh)
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bio sam vlasnik kafića,
bila su to drugačija vremena.
(Smijeh)
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But
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Ali
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I had threetri daysdana of life supportpodrška,
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tri sam dana bio na aparatima
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and everybodysvi was expectingočekujući,
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i svi su očekivali,
08:52
dueuslijed to just the massivemasivan amountiznos of what they had had to do
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zbog same činjenice koliko toga su morali napraviti,
08:57
that I wasn'tnije going to make it,
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da jednostavno neću preživjeti
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so it was threetri daysdana of
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pa su ta tri dana
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everybodysvi was eitherili waitingčekanje for me to dieumrijeti or poopkrma,
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svi čekali ili da umrem ili da kakam,
09:04
and — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
09:05
when I finallykonačno poopedUmoran, then that somehownekako,
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kad sam se napokon pokakao, onda je to kao,
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surgicallykirurški speakinggovor, that's like you crossedprešao some good linecrta,
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kirurški gledano, da ste prešli neku dobru granicu,
09:12
and, umHm — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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i -- (Smijeh) --
09:13
on that day, the surgeonkirurg camedošao in
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tog dana, kirurg je došao
09:16
and whippedšlag the sheetlist off of me.
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i skinuo posteljinu s mene.
09:19
He had threetri or fourčetiri friendsprijatelji with him,
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Imao je tri, četiri prijatelja sa sobom,
09:21
and he does that, and they all look,
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to je napravio i svi su pogledali
09:23
and there was no infectioninfekcija,
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i nije bilo infekcije.
09:25
and they bendzavoj over me and they're pokingbode and proddingprodding,
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Svi se sagnuli nada mnom i bockali i pipali,
09:28
and they're like, "There's no hematomashematoma, blahpretjerivanje blahpretjerivanje,
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svi su govorili kako nema hematoma, bla bla,
09:30
look at the colorboja," and they're talkingkoji govori amongstmeđu themselvesse
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da pogledaju boju, i pričali su među sobom
09:33
and I'm, like, this restoredobnovljena automobileautomobil
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kao da sam neki obnovljeni automobil
09:36
that he's just going, "Yeah, I did that." (LaughterSmijeh)
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za koji kaže: "Da, to sam ja napravio." (Smijeh)
09:39
And it was just,
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I bilo je
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it was amazingnevjerojatan, because these guys are high-fivingJesi li ga upoznao him
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jednostavno čudesno, zato što mu ti tipovi daju pet
09:45
over how good I turnedokrenut out, you know? (LaughterSmijeh)
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zbog toga što sam odlično ispao, znate? (Smijeh)
09:47
And it's my zipperzatvarač, and I've still got the staplesspojnice in
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To je moj zatvarač i još uvijek imam spajalice unutra
09:51
and everything.
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i sve.
09:52
And
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I
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laterkasnije on, when I got out
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kasnije, kad sam se probudio
09:57
and the flashbacksprisjećanja and the
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i kad su mi sjećanja i
10:02
nightmaresnoćne more were givingdavanje me a hardteško time,
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noćne more zadavale probleme,
10:07
I wentotišao back to him
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otišao sam kod njega
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and I was sortvrsta of askingtraži him,
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i upitao ga
10:12
you know, what am I gonna do?
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što da radim.
10:15
And I think, kindljubazan of, as a surgeonkirurg, he basicallyu osnovi said,
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I mislim da je, kao kirurg, jednostavno rekao:
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"KidDijete, I savedspremaju your life.
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"Dečko, spasio sam ti život.
10:21
Like, now you can do whateveršto god you want, like,
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Sad možeš što hoćeš,
10:24
you gottamora get on with that.
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moraš nastaviti s tim.
10:25
It's like I gavedali you a newnovi carautomobil
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To je kao da sam ti dao novi auto,
10:27
and you're complaininggunđanje about not findingnalaz parkingparkiralište.
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a žališ se zato što ne možeš naći parking.
10:29
Like, just, go out, and, you know, do your bestnajbolje.
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Samo izađi, i, znaš, daj sve od sebe.
10:33
But you're aliveživ. That's what it's about."
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Ali živ si. To je ono o čemu se radi."
10:38
And then I hearčuti, "Bing-bongBing bong," and the subwaypodzemna željeznica doorsvrata
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I onda čujem: "Bing-bong", i to su vrata podzemne
10:44
are closingzatvaranje, and my stop is nextSljedeći, and I look at these kidsdjeca,
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koja se zatvaraju, a silazim na idućoj stanici,
i pogledam te klince,
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and I go, I think to myselfsebe,
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i pomislim u sebi
10:52
"I'm going to liftlift my shirtkošulja up
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da bih mogao podići svoju majicu
10:53
and showpokazati them," — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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i pokazati im -- (Smijeh) --
10:55
and then I think, "No, this is the NewNovi YorkYork CityGrad subwaypodzemna željeznica,
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a onda pomislim: "Ne, ovo je podzemna u New Yorku,
10:57
that's going to leaddovesti to other things." (LaughterSmijeh)
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to će dovesti do drugih stvari." (Smijeh)
11:01
And so I just think, they got theirnjihov lecturepredavanje to go to.
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I tako samo mislim kako imaju
svoje predavanje na koje moraju ići.
11:05
I stepkorak off, I'm standingstajati on the platformplatforma,
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Siđem, stojim na platformi,
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and I feel my indexindeks fingerprst
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i osjećam svoj kažiprst
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in
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u
11:14
the first scarožiljak that I ever got,
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prvom ožiljku koji sam ikad dobio,
11:17
from my umbilicalpupčane cordvrpca,
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od svoje pupčane vrpce,
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and then around that, is tracedpratiti
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i onda se oko tog ocrtava
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the last scarožiljak that I got
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zadnji ožiljak koji sam dobio
11:26
from my surgeonkirurg,
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od svog kirurga.
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and I think that, that chanceprilika encountersusret
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Mislim da me taj slučajni susret
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with those kidsdjeca on the streetulica with theirnjihov knivesNoževi
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s klincima na ulici i njihovim noževima
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led me
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doveo
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to my surgicalkirurška teamtim,
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do mog kirurškog tima,
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and theirnjihov trainingtrening
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a njihova je obuka
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and theirnjihov skillvještina
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i njihova vještina
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and, always, a little bitbit of lucksreća
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i, uvijek, trunka sreće
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pushedgurnula back againstprotiv chaoshaos.
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potukla kaos.
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Thank you. (ApplausePljesak)
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Hvala. (Pljesak)
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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Thank you. Very luckysretan to be here. Thank you. (ApplausePljesak)
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Hvala. Sretan sam što sam ovdje. Hvala.
(Pljesak)
Translated by Senzos Osijek
Reviewed by Suzana Barić

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ed Gavagan - Designer, Storyteller
Ed Gavagan was walking down the street in downtown Manhattan when he was the victim of a gang assignment to kill a random stranger. He lives to tell the amazing story.

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Ed Gavagan is the owner of PraxisNYC, a design firm specializing in boutique residences and aimed at designing for sustainability, habitability, durability and beauty. In 2007 Gavagan told the story “Drowning on Sullivan Street” at the Moth, the series devoted to stories told live without notes, about his near-death experience on the streets of New York as the victim of a gang initiation rite. His stories have been heard on NPR and the Moth podcast, and he has appeared onstage with the Moth in events across the U.S. Gavagan lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

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