The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign.
--Alfred Polger (d. 1955), Der Emigrant und die Heimat
Emigranten-Schicksal: Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden. Aber die Heimat Fremde.
Between 2007 and 2009, I lived in Los Angeles after living in Paris for many years. My Paris blog (before and after my Los Angeles sojourn) is Rue Rude.
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Here from this mountain shore, headland beyond stormy headland
plunging like dolphins through the blue sea-smoke
into pale sea — look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet:
this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
eyeball of water, arched over to Asia,
Australia and white Antarctica: those are the eyelids that never close;
this is the staring unsleeping
Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars.
--Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), in "The Eye"
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In Paris, the purest virtue is the object of the filthiest slander.
–Honoré Balzac (1799-1850), in Scènes de la vie privée
À Paris, la vertu la plus pure est l'objet des plus sales calomnies.
Annual Geminids meteor shower (shooting stars!) coming this weekend, if it's not too cloudy out at night.
Hi Sedulia,
'RSS / ATOM flux' don't seem to be working on your new site... There indeed seems to be some, but when selected they don't work...
good luck for your new life!
Nat
Posted by: nat | 29 January 2007 at 11:10
Hi Sedulia !
Ah, pacifist RJ, the man of the double axe. (smile) One of the finest American poets ... bar none, in Amerloque's view.
SoCal ... ? NoCal ... ?
Amerloque hasn't been back in a while.
Best,
L'Amerloque
Posted by: L'Amerloque | 29 January 2007 at 19:55