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What incredible hands you have.
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They curve like a Balinese dancer's.
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I have always been afraid of hands.
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Men's hands. I am not afraid of yours.
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- Please do not move. Stay very still.
- Why?
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A butterfly has perched on your shoulder.
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Is a sign of good luck.
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Oh, you shouldn't have turned!
It was a good omen.
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Why, you're superstitious. And you a doctor!
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But I was born to superstition.
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In China, when a peasant has a son,
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he dresses him in girl's clothes
and gives him a girl's name
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because he's afraid that
the jealous gods may take him away.
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Or if the crop in the field is bountiful,
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he stands in the ditch and
shakes his head and cries aloud
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"Bad rice, bad rice!"
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He does this to propitiate the gods,
to deceive them.
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And so it is with me.
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I should like to deceive the gods.
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For if they notice me, they may be jealous.
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We mustn't let the angry gods notice us.
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- Bad rice, bad rice!
- Be quiet!
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I am very serious.
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So am I.
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Dr Sen, this gentleman is looking for Dr Han.
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- Dr Han is on duty.
- Yes, I know,
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but she left urgent word
at the office for me to call her.
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- Urgent?
- Yes, so I came over. I'm Mark Elliott.
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- I'm Dr Sen. Will you come with me?
- Thank you.