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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Many things that in other countries are done by the government are private in the U.S.. This leads to a proliferation of ads (as in the Coca-Cola Olympics of 1996).
Like other states, California has an adopt-a-highway program. I was amused to see this highway sign the other day. The atheists have to keep this section of the road clean in order to keep their ad up.
The requirement leads to some funny signs. Here is one plaintive road abandoned by its erstwhile benefactor.
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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.
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