Thanks, Doug, Pat, Jill.
A simple good night only now to all.
On 18/10/2012, at 8:11 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ah, the bon soir. I, also, recall
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> On 18/10/2012, at 3:55 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>> I remember it well. Caught a glimpse here, Bill, nicely.
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>> Doug
>> On 2012-10-16, at 6:34 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Paris works.
>>>
>>> Dogs do still shit on the footpaths. But not
>>> as rampantly as detractors will have you believe.
>>> Mostly they discreetly poop in soil at the base of trees.
>>> My boots and I came through scot(tie)-free.
>>>
>>> Traffic is nuts. Parking even nuttier.
>>> But they manage it, the Parisians. Gloriously.
>>> Almost symphonically. Nudging and swerving.
>>> Even clipping or scraping, but sans-fussedly.
>>>
>>> Pushbikes, parping motor scooters,
>>> motor bikes, motor trikes - with two front wheels -
>>> the better to ease over cobblestones,
>>> and cars and vans, all enter the fray and play.
>>>
>>> Cafes and restaurants seem to just
>>> arrive, fully formed, on footpaths, behind glass
>>> and out front, swabbed glass-topped round tables,
>>> precede bi-coloured, obedient, road-facing chairs.
>>>
>>> Tendered bonjours each morning from neighbours,
>>> tiny lift-sharers, shopkeepers, male and female,
>>> are sincere and joyous sounding. And to be bon soired
>>> in the evening by the French is to accept... enchantment.
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> Latest books:
>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>> Wednesdays'
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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>>
>> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>>
>> H.L. Mencken
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