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A-t-on le droit d’être jaloux de toi? Lequel à notre époque est assez riche pour te posséder? Auquel permettrait-on de t’enfermer? Tu es trop beau, trop cher, trop célèbre! Tu es pièce de musée, bien public.

Osera-t-on blâmer la Vénus de Praxitèle de s’offrir à tous: nue, tentatrice, impudique - indifférente?

Would anyone have the right to be jealous of you? Which man of our times is rich enough to possess you? Who would be permitted to hide you away? You are too handsome, too dear, too famous! You are a museum piece, truly public.

Will anyone dare censure the Venus of Praxitele for offering herself to everyone; naked, beguiling, immodest – indifferent?

English trans. by Susan de Muth

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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