In the classic Billy Wilder romantic comedy, Sabrina
Fairchild, the chauffeur’s daughter, tells business hotshot Linus Larrabee that
the first time one sees Paris, it
must be raining, because Paris is at its
most beautiful in the rain. Well, maybe
that is true if you are Audrey Hepburn and you are talking to Humphrey Bogart, but
this morning, twenty minutes into my walk, it started to rain. I turned right around and walked home for
twenty minutes getting wet. I could have
used that umbrella Sabrina tells Linus he must not carry in Paris!
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Did you try channeling Gene Kelly?
Professor Wolff --
Did you ever see the Woody Allen movie "Midnight in Paris"? It concludes with two characters happily walking the streets in the rain. Romantic, to be sure.
-- Jim
Not only did we see it, we saw it in Paris, in the movie theater that is featured in the opening montage of Paris scenes!! When that flashed on the screen, the audience erupted. The place where the antique taxi picks the main character up each night for his adventures is up the street from Place Maubert, where our apartment is.
One of the more poignant moments in my life occurred when I listened to prisoners with life sentences describe watching the rain fall from inside their cells and wishing how much they wanted to simply feel it on their skin. Ever since that moment, I have never really been bothered by the rain. As is so often the case, it tends to be the little things in life that exert the greatest impact.
-- Jim
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