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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
|