FIRST EDITION
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ISBN 978-0-06-242392-4
EPub Edition October 2016 ISBN 9780062423955
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*It is (true) art to conceal art.
*“Great”
†“Fabulous.”
*A person who pretends to be what she is not.
*“Thank you, dear master.”
†“Yes, dear mistress.”
*In her essential form.
*[Of the dead, say] nothing but good.
*“Holding you tight, so tight, in the ecstasy of love.”
*Civil status.
*With the most honorable intentions.
*Who knows?
†Who knows? Who knows?
*Let’s go.
*The gentlemen are served.
*Family sorrow.
*You are a big pig.
*Look on me well; yes, I am, I am Beatrice.
*At fifty, you become a bit crazy.
†Crazy and piggish. I too have become a pig. Underage girls, at fifty, know they are an obsession. Just an obsession.
*Etiquette, good manners.
*Surrenders the sight to the touch, to the lip the light.
†To the lip the light.
*To the lip the light.
*The seas I sail were never crossed before;
†Minerva breathes, Apollo is my guide,
and all nine Muses point me out the Bears.
§“Coffee?” “No, I never drink it, never. For the liver, you know, it’s bad. It’s also said that the intestines. . . .”
*Ye other few, who early raised your necks
for Angels’ bread, on which one here on earth
subsists, but with which none are ever sated . . .
†“Boiled fish, grilled meat, boiled potatoes. . . .”
‡The innate and ceaseless thirsting for the Realm
in God’s own image made. . .
§Boiled fish.
*The innate and ceaseless thirsting for the Realm
in God’s own image made, was bearing us
as swiftly as ye see the heavens revolve.
On high looked Beatrice, and I on her. . . .
†Yes, I am, I am Beatrice.
*A pun meaning “feelings—fractions away.”
†On high looked Beatrice, and I on her.
‡All nine Muses point me out the Bears.
§All the better, all the better.
*Apollo, Apollo, why have you forsaken me?
*“You are like a flower”
†The Devil’s Trill Sonata.
‡With the full authority of office.
*Rabble, riffraff.
†An elderly woman of great prestige.
*A supposed right of a feudal lord to have sexual relations with a vassal’s bride on her wedding night.
*A believer.
†An observant follower.
*Naughty.
†Eighteenth-century.
*“Where are the lovely moments of sweetness and pleasure?”
*Witty remarks thought of too late.
*With the respective differences having been considered.
*An aria in three-part form comprising a theme, a secondary contrasting part, and a repetition of the first part.
†In a sportive manner, used in musical direction.
‡Very agitated or hurried, used in musical direction.
*Ill-mannered.
†A rude, uncouth person.
*Likes are cured by likes.
†Sanskrit Buddhist mantra: Untranslatable, but “Praise to the jewel in the lotus,” literally.
*And there he is, and there he is, Figaro,
The most comical of Belgium, Figaro!
*Likes are cured by likes.
*Village fair.
†Chamber pot.
‡French boiled sweets (“stupid mistakes from the town of Cambrai”).
*Hindu symbol representing energy and strength.
*“But he’s a negro.”
*“But we are in the twentieth century. And the war will not last long.”
*Outhouse.
*A pass.
*For the improvement of the cattle breed.
†A pass.
‡“But what is that?”
*For the improvement of the cattle breed.
*“Woman is flighty,” from Verdi’s Rigoletto.
†“It’s my own sun,” Neapolitan song by Capurro.
‡“God walks through the fields”.
*Second in command of the division.
*For the improvement of the cattle breed.
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