The Enlightenment: L'age des Lumières. France: Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire. The power of reason and rational thought process, the triumph of knowledge and intellectual progress over traditional religious imperatives.

France is referred to as one of the founding pillars of the Enlightenment era: logic reigned supreme. Key word being reigned ( Read more... )

So, on my way home from school yesterday, I walked past a shop window in which was displayed a fluoro-vomit-coloured handbag with chunky-gold-chain straps, advertised as the "Cheap&Chic" handbag ( Read more... )

Look at how she grows...


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"Time doesn't click on and on at the stroke. It comes and goes in waves and folds like water; it flutters and sifts like dust, rises, billows, falls back on itself. When a wave breaks the water is not moving. The swell has travelled great distances but only the energy is moving, not the water. Perhaps time moves through us and not us through it ( Read more... )

I got to spend nearly 5 hours in the Emergency ward of the Hopital Cochin on Thursday night. And as Damien so rightly pointed out to both myself and Aye Aye, as I lay on my disinfected death bed: "Cochin sounds like Cochon. Which means Pig ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up, and then Damien and I put matboard and a photo inside an 80x100 frame, kneeling on my bed with a kitchen knife and a 20€ Vodafone recharge card ( Read more... )

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ach soooooo. hello from paris ( Read more... )

Time really is like sand. You always think you have too bloody much of the stuff (especially in your undies), and that it will never run out, until you try and grab onto a bunch of it with your hands and it all slips straight through your fingers ( Read more... )

I was pretty impressed this morning when I noticed that the one life guard on duty at the big swimming complex here in Prague was patently fast asleep. In plain view for all to see, at 11 in the morning.

These are the kind of things that will make it so damn hard to leave this country. And I'm serious when I say that.