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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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.
I saw this a few days ago on reddit. Very clever!
Posted by: Ryan | 02 October 2008 at 21:12
priceless!
Posted by: CashmereLibrarian | 03 October 2008 at 17:16
I saw this on davi leibovitzs facebook page, it's just perfect! great humour!
Posted by: Marguerite | 04 October 2008 at 20:33
Heheehe! Thanks for posting this... I just put it on my page and linked to yours.. We Dems in France are all routin' for Obama.. I already voted and put it in the mail 2 days ago!!!
Posted by: Leesa | 13 October 2008 at 21:56