你应该认识我姑妈！她这个人才可爱呢！这也就是说，她的可爱并不像我们平时所说的那种可爱。她和蔼可亲，有自己的一种滑稽味儿。如果一个人想聊聊闲天、开开什么人的玩笑，那么她就可以成为谈笑的资料。她可以成为戏里的角色；这是因为她只是为戏院和与戏院有关的一切而活着的缘故。她是一个非常有身份的人。但是经纪人法布——我把他念作佛拉布——却说她是一个“戏迷”。 “戏院就是我的学校，”我说，“是我的知识的源泉。我在这儿重新温习《圣经》的历史：摩西啦，约瑟和他的弟兄们啦，都成了歌剧！我在戏院里学到世界史、地理和关于人类的知识！我从法国戲中知道了巴黎的生活——很不正经，但是非常有趣！我为《李格堡家庭》这出戲流了不知多少眼泪：想想看，一个丈夫为了使他的妻子得到她的年轻的爱人，居然喝酒喝得醉死了！” 我知道每出戲、每一场情节、每一个要出场或已经出过场的人物。我只是为那演戲的九个月而活着。夏天是没有戲上演的——这段时间使我变得衰老。晚间の戲如果能演到半夜以后，那就等于是把我的生命延长。我不像别人那样说：“春天来了，鹳鸟来了！”或者：“报上說草莓已经上市了！”相反，对于秋天的到来，我总喜欢說：“你沒有看到戲院開始賣票了嗎？戲快要上演了呀！”

在我看来，一幢房子是否有价值，完全要看它离戲院的地理位置而定。当我不得不从一個小巷子搬到一條比較遠一点的大街上的時候，我真是難過極了。

“我們窗戶應該都是我們自己的包廂！你不能老是在家裡坐著想自己的事情呀。你應該看看外面的世界。不过现在我的生活就好像是我住在遙遠的地方似的。如果I想要看看外面，我就得走進廚房，把頭伸進洗碗槽去。那樣I才可以看到對面隔壁家的邻居。当I還住在那個小巷子的時候，我可以直接望見賣麻豆的小店里的情景，而且只需走三百步路就可以到達劇院。現在I只能走三千大步。”

My doctor gave me a prescription to put some medicine on my feet at night. I followed the doctor's advice, but I still went to the theater by car with my medicated feet sitting there watching the play. If I had died sitting there, it would have been a very happy death for me. Many people die in theaters – that's what they call "happy death."

In heaven, if there were no theaters, it would be unimaginable for me. We will never enter heaven, but we can imagine that the deceased actors and actresses are still continuing their careers there.

My room has a private telephone line connected directly to the theater. Every morning when I drink coffee, I receive a message from Mr. Svendborg of the stage machinery department - he is my messenger man who controls all scenes and changes in scenery during performances.

From him, I learn about each play's simple and brief plot outline. She calls Shakespeare's "The Tempest" an "unbearable work because its scenery is too complicated!" Her point is that stormy sea this scene on stage too prominent! On the other hand, if exactly same indoor set does not change at all in five acts without any change or transformation of scenery then she thinks this script was written very smartly and complete as one quiet play because it doesn't need any scenery to start automatically performing itself.

In old times - also known as what my mother called thirty years ago - she knew Mr.Svendborg well when he was young like her and working in setup department already being her helper; back then only one unique large theater existed in town; during late-night shows many customers usually sat inside set construction spaces on upper floors where every backstage carpenter could freely occupy two seats; these seats were always filled with guests including famous ones: either lady general or wife of city councilor...