"Stay for a while"
The season finale party at Deutsches Theater, Saturday 11 July 2009. A part of town I don't go to very often. Beautiful all the same, some pockets of old Berlin near Friedrichstrasse; I promise to be back soon.

The theater lounge. People were having a really relaxed evening.

Bar at Deutsches Theater with DJs from Berghain, Berlin's gem for the world's best techno music. I always talk about how techno music can actually be pretty. The good stuff is not a repetitive electronic beat; the good stuff is a mix of sounds where the melody may not change, but the texture does. Gorgeous sounds they can be. You sit there for hours; it feels like you are being served the finest feast for your ears.

Marga was with me that night. She was impressed by the range of people at the party, young and old. True, that is something nice about German cities, to be honest and objective. Those who feel beautiful, attractive, and want to be visible are allowed practice their vanity boundlessly. And many take up that offer. At what age do people get old and disappear? Start to wear the same clothes outside the house that they slept in, every day? Or at what weight? When do people stop feeling entitled to embody beauty?

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See, I can dance, too.