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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 > > > On 18/10/2012, at 3:55 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote: > >> I remember it well. Caught a glimpse here, Bill, nicely. >> >> Doug >> On 2012-10-16, at 6:34 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ >> >> 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 >> >> >> 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 >