Matters of Beauty - Classics Read Aloud
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Reflections on a Paris sojourn.
“A theatrical people, the French!” – from The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy I am just back from Paris, and as I reintegrate into my home country, I am so very aware of the contrast. This was not my first time in Paris, far from it. I used to visit quite often in a past life, and for a long time, I held a dream of one day owning a little pied-à-terre in the 6th. In the meanwhile, life evolved in unexpected ways, and this was my first time back since 2008. Given all the noise about the city currently littering Twitter/X, paired with the obvious decay prevalent across so many cities here in…
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