The Chinese translation is terrible, even I can tell, flat and inconsistent and inaccurate

Oh no, you're right, that is a bad translation! /o\ But that is a good idea, to read a book in Chinese that one already knows by heart.

I like 做人 as a phrase, though—be a mensch.

Heeee :D

a little three-note motif under the solo line that absolutely moves me to tears every time.

Oh true. I have little parts like that in the songs we sing.

(I wish somebody would explain to him that putting his health at risk also means putting his career/his work at risk, then he might listen?)

Ha. Natch.

still somehow managing to look absurdly beautiful.

He looks like an ice cream stand, and Still!


Wee, sunbathing cat! <3