Saturday, March 7, 2015

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Sigh!  Here I am again in Paris, and my Internet access does not work in the apartment.  I am planning to commit suicide, just as soon as I finish making my signature cuisses de canards for my friends next Tuesday.

In the meanwhile, I can report that Jean Gabin and Yves Montand are still in their favored places on the Seine [they are batobuses, for those who are new to this blog.]

More anon. 

6 comments:

  1. Speaking of suicide, can you explain why the French <> is redundantly reflexive?

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  2. Huh. I had put "se suicider" in between the which-a-may-call-em inequailty signs.

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  3. A cute story to sheer you up:

    An 8-year-old girl receives gifts from the crows she feeds
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/03/1368072/-An-8-year-old-girl-receives-gifts-from-the-crows-she-feeds

    Honestly, I do love the little devils: crows, ravens and -- my favorites -- the magpies.

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  4. Richard: The blog permits use of HTML tags within comments. Those tags (=formatting commands) are distinguished from text by being enclosed in those greater-than and less-than symbols. So, you can't use them. (Well, you can, if you "escape" them, but that's a long story.)

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  5. ...further trouble in Paradise:

    "Paris university shuts down Israeli apartheid event featuring Max Blumenthal"

    https://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/university-featuring-blumenthal

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