Tema con variazioni, molto liberamente, quasi una improvisazione
Last night around midnight in the kitchen, licking chocolate mousse off my fingers. Special dessert is tonight.
Thème et variations, avec beaucoup de liberté, comme une improvisation
Last night a handful of us got last-minute tickets to a modern dance performance at Zellerbach. I wish I could have appreciated it, but I kept getting the impression that I was witnessing the latest reply in a long discussion that I haven't been following.
At one point in the conversation, my companions were debating the merits of dancing "to" music. In the performance last night, the dancers seemed to barely acknowledge that the music was there. They danced around the live musicians (who were on stage at times), but often they danced to silence, or had fast complicated moves to slow musical passages, or didn't react at all to energetic or tense portions of the music. Why? I have no idea.
Theme and variations, very free, like an improvisation.
"Or qant ao' voyęlles je treuue qe la lange Frãçoęz' en a juques au nombre de sęt, si diuęrses ęntr' ęlles, qe l'une ne peut ętre prononçée pour l'aotre, sans manifęst' offęnse de l'oręlle:: qoę qe lęs aucunes ayet ęntr' ęlles vne grand' affinité. Nous auons donc, a, ę, ouuert, e clós, i, ou, clós (aotremęnt ne l'oze je noter) o ouuęrt, u. ... Ie vou' lęss' a pęnser qęlle graç' aora l'e clós, ęn sę' vocables męs, tęs, sęs, si nou' l'y pronõçons, come nou' fezons ęn pere, mere: ę come font je ne sey qels effeminez miɳons auęq vn pręqe clós resęrremęnt de bouçhe: creɳans a mon auís qe la voęs virille de l'home ne soęt point tant harmonieuze, ny aggreabl' ao' dames, q'une laçhe, foębl', ę femenine."
-- Louis Meigret, Le Trętté de la grammęre françoęze (1550)
Sheesh, 16th century attempted spelling reforms in French. This character: ɳ is in the place of what looks like an eta with a tilde over it (the eta being 'ng', the tilde meaning that there should be an 'n' coming after the letter). Even the book I got this out of couldn't set the character properly.
Thema und Variationen, sehr frei, vie eine Improvisation.
More CS 70 quotes:
"Omigod, the big dog? The new big dog."
-- Rao, on his cell phone after taking a call in the middle of class
Tema y Variaciones, muy libremente, casi una improvisacion.