Whoever you are, whatever it is you are doing is all right.

*

Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.   

 -Blanche dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire

(to Missie Jo):

Whatever it is that you are doing, it is all right.    

-Lily H.

*  http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2009/12/14/091214crth_theatre_lahr

Feelings of racial superiority

Feelings of superiority based on race, history, physical stature, or moral righteousness, 
undermine 

the cause of racial equality in this country.

-Lily H.




* * * * *



The fact that I prefer A to B does not mean necessarily that A is better than B.   I just like A more than B.  Even if I really don't like B at all.
-Ibid.

Le racisme: une epithete qu'on doit parfois prendre a la legere

Les gens qui disent que quelqu'un d'autre est raciste sont souvent  plus racistes que celui-la.

-Lily H.

...Elle a la mer, nous au tombeau....

Lorsque au soleil couchant, les rivieres sont roses, 

Et qu'un tiede frisson court sur les champs de ble, 

Un conseil d'etre heureux semble sortir des choses 

Et monter vers le coeur trouble. 

Un conseil de gouter le charme d'etre au monde 

Cependant qu'on est jeune et que le soir est beau 

Car nous nous en allons, 

Comme s'en va cette onde: 

Elle a la mer, 

Nous au tombeau

paroles:   Paul Bourget            musique:  Claude Debussy (ca. 1883)

Renee Fleming, soprano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzNASDPXbMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rnjl-s8dPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCk49vcjjY

Christmas 2013

We are all that we ever have loved.

Lily H.

"Don't Tell Mama" (Fred Ebb)

 Julie Harris in "I am a Camera" by John Von Druten based on "The Berlin Stories"

Isherwood

Jill Haworth as Sally  Bowles in the original Broadway production

Act I Scene [ ]  from the musical play "Cabaret"

[EMCEE]

And now, meine Damen und Herren... Mesdames et

Messieurs... Ladies and Gentlemen- The Kit Kat Klub

is proud to present a most talented young lady from

England. Yes- England! I give you- and don't forget

to give her back when you're finished with her- the

toast of Mayfair... Fraulein Sally Bowles!!

[SALLY]

Mama
Thinks I'm living in a convent,
A secluded little convent
In the southern part of France.

Mama

Doesn't even have an inkling

That I'm working in a Nightclub

In a pair of Lacy pants.

So please, sir.

If you run into my Mama,

Don't reveal my indiscretion,

Give a working girl a chance.

Hush up,

Don't tell Mama,

Shush up,

Don't tell Mama...

Don't tell Mama,

Whatever you do.

If you had a secret,

You bet I would keep it.

I would never tell on you.

I'm breaking every promise

That I gave her,

So won't you kindly do a girl

A great big favor?

And please, my sweet patater,

Keep this from the Mater,

Though my dance

Is not against the law.

You can tell my Papa, that's all right,

'Cause he comes in here every night,

But don't tell Mama what you saw!

[ALL]

Mama

Thinks I'm on a tour of Europe,

With a couple of my school chums

And a lady chaperone.

Mama

Doesn't even have an inkling

That I left them all in Antwerp

And I'm touring on my own.

So please, Sir

If you run into my Mama

Don't reveal my indiscretion.

[SALLY]

Just leave well enough alone.

Hush up,

[ALL]

Don't tell Mama.

[SALLY]

Shush up,

[ALL]

Don't tell Mama;

Don't tell Mama

Whatever you do.

[SALLY]

If you had a secret,

You bet I would keep it.

[ALL]

I would never tell on you.

You wouldn't want to get me

In a pickle,

[SALLY]

And have her go and cut me off

Without a nickle.

[ALL]

So let's trust one another,

Keep this from my mother,

Though I'm still as pure as mountain snow.

[SALLY]

You can tell my Uncle

Here and now

'Cause he's my agent anyhow,

[KIT KAT GIRLS]

But don't tell Mama what you know.

[SALLY]

You can tell my brother,

That ain't grim

'Cause if her squeals on me

I'll squeal on him,

[ALL]

But don't tell Mama, bitte

Don't tell Mama, please, Sir.

Don't tell Mama, what you know.

[GIRLS]

Sssh!

Sssh!

[SALLY]

If you see my, Mummy,

Mum's the word!

如出一辙

I learned today a common Chinese expression meaning "to be precisely the same, no different."   It was used in a  Taiwanese news broadcast to describe the President of Taiwan Ma Yingjiu's behavior after the death of his own father.  He confined his mourning to the private sphere.


Another example:

布什已在暗示杜卡基斯与蒙代尔如出一辙，也是一个民主党自由分子。此一指控实际上是站不住的 ... 。

[In the 1992 presidential primary] George W. Bush charged that Dukakis was no different from Walter Mondale.



辙
= [zhe, 2nd tone] rut, track