(very rough translation - 'thoughts fly and words go on foot - there you have the writer's drama/problem/story')
We took this photo in France - in la Charité sur Loire where they have little excerpts like this all over town thanks to their yearly word festival. I'd never heard of the writer quoted above (one Julien Green) but you can read all about him here. I liked the quote.
Told you it was short posts...schools back next week.
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Love it! Love the photo, love the quote. Particularly love the idea of a word festival.
Yes, different to a book or literature festival somehow...freer...and I've always been a freedom junkie.
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A word festival does sound great, and you reminded me of a post I read here, http://therainbownotebook.blogspot.com/2009/07/wall-of-words.html#links
about a poetry wall, which is just the lovliest idea...just pin your poem to the wall and share your words...
Thanks Rachel - had a look and it looks great.
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There's a book of Julian Green's called 'Paris' which I read a long time ago, a very quirky, beautifully written book about all the secret passageways and hidden alleyways and forgotten parks and squares hardly anyone ever visits in Paris. I would thoroughly recommend it. A bit romantic, a bit 'nostalgie de la boue'. I think there's a whole genre of this 'flaneur' kind of literature. Of particular interest to me - with my walking thing.
I knew one of you clever people would have heard of him!
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He was American, actually, but chronicled paris in the 50s and 60s
when all these exciting sexy writers and painters were kicking around
Bit like you lot over in D & G, eh Shug? It's a hotbed of artistic activity over there.
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