Friday, September 07, 2007
The Senior Man
TRANSLATOR
Majesty asks: The women, who all these?
JUNIOR
Wives and girlfriends, mostly.
TRANSLATOR
Majesty asks where are there the whores?
JUNIOR
At this kind of party, we...uh...converse and...uh...hors de oeuvres.
TRANSLATOR
Majesty, he make the joke. Please to not have the derves and just...the awrs--like you have at begin you speak. It sound like whores, that word French—he make the joke. He many times the Paris. Why you no laugh?
SENIOR
I'll take over here, Trevor. Tell His Majesty we will soon have politics and cigars and whiskies–if his religion permits--and the women tea and endless chatter.
TRANSLATOR
Majesty laughs.
SENIOR
I saw that. Then, I will take him to a truly wonderful, and most cultural place! Hey?
TRANSLATOR
Our country too we have this, the how you say? Winkling?
SENIOR
Winking.
TRANSLATOR
Is very good!
SENIOR
Very.
TRANSLATOR
Majesty asks: The women, who all these?
JUNIOR
Wives and girlfriends, mostly.
TRANSLATOR
Majesty asks where are there the whores?
JUNIOR
At this kind of party, we...uh...converse and...uh...hors de oeuvres.
TRANSLATOR
Majesty, he make the joke. Please to not have the derves and just...the awrs--like you have at begin you speak. It sound like whores, that word French—he make the joke. He many times the Paris. Why you no laugh?
SENIOR
I'll take over here, Trevor. Tell His Majesty we will soon have politics and cigars and whiskies–if his religion permits--and the women tea and endless chatter.
TRANSLATOR
Majesty laughs.
SENIOR
I saw that. Then, I will take him to a truly wonderful, and most cultural place! Hey?
TRANSLATOR
Our country too we have this, the how you say? Winkling?
SENIOR
Winking.
TRANSLATOR
Is very good!
SENIOR
Very.
