Saturday, May 1, 2010

Quotes from The Moon Opera

I just finished the book.  Too short, but so lovely.  About Chinese Opera.  It would make a lovely movie-- I wished that I could hear the music, though I could see everything from Bi Feiyu's lovely descriptions.

Quotes:

"Men fight other men, but women spend their whole lives fighting themselves" (39).

"Dieting is a lot like illness" (82).

"The tablets had a lyrical name - Stopping the Pearl... no wonder there were fewer poets and playwrights these days; they were all busy giving names to pills and tablets" (94).

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