Burroghs, Warhol & Nico - Chelsea Hotel 1980

Warhol rayando la papa, WSB dibujando y Nico cantando.
Todos en el Chelsea Hotel, que grupo más feliz.

What keeps mankind alive?

What keeps mankind alive?
Extracto de la Threepenny Opera de Bertolt Brecht.

MACHEATH: You gentlemen who think you have a mission
to purge us of the seven deadly sins,
should first sort out the basic food position,
then start your preaching! That’s where it begins.
You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well,
should learn, for once, the way the world is run:
However much you twist, whatever lies you tell,
food is the first thing, morals follow on.
So first make sure that those who now are starving
get proper helpings when we all start carving.

VOICE OFF-STAGE: What keeps mankind alive?

MACHEATH: What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions
are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed.
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
in keeping its humanity repressed.

CHORUS: For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

MRS. PEACHUM: You say that girls may strip with your permission.
You draw the line dividing art from sin.
So first sort out the basic food position,
then start your preaching! That’s where we begin.
You lot who bank on your desires and our disgust
Should learn for once the way the world is run:
Whatever lies you tell, however much you twist,
food is the first thing, morals follow on.
So first make sure that those who are now starving
get proper helpings when we all start carving.

VOICE OFF-STAGE: What keeps mankind alive?

MRS. PEACHUM: What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions
are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed.
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
in keeping its humanity repressed.

CHORUS: For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Recitado por William S. Burroughs.

Amigos de flickr #2

Natalia Gladisheva, de Sn Peterburg, Rusia.