http://www.beautifulcynicism.ca/la-lecture-de-lete-i-1177/ Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:55:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.beautifulcynicism.ca/la-lecture-de-lete-i-1177/comment-page-1/#comment-25925 beautiful cynic Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:19:42 +0000 http://www.beautifulcynicism.ca/la-lecture-de-lete-i-1177/#comment-25925 "Have you ever walked into a half-empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it’s 'complet'? Been overlooked at the boulangerie due to your adherence to the bizarre foreign custom of waiting in line? Well, you’re not alone." Clarke's book actually contains 11 "commandments", ranging in topics from how to deal with sadistic receptionists and cashiers, to an extremely funny section about "living with bacteria". He's quite blunt, though, and some passages are rather rude; but I found most of his observations to be spot-on. Utterly hilarious - though maybe less so to French people! :D “Have you ever walked into a half-empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it’s ‘complet’? Been overlooked at the boulangerie due to your adherence to the bizarre foreign custom of waiting in line? Well, you’re not alone.”
Clarke’s book actually contains 11 “commandments”, ranging in topics from how to deal with sadistic receptionists and cashiers, to an extremely funny section about “living with bacteria”. He’s quite blunt, though, and some passages are rather rude; but I found most of his observations to be spot-on. Utterly hilarious – though maybe less so to French people!

]]> http://www.beautifulcynicism.ca/la-lecture-de-lete-i-1177/comment-page-1/#comment-25919 Monbeam Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:05:52 +0000 http://www.beautifulcynicism.ca/la-lecture-de-lete-i-1177/#comment-25919 Nous voilà tout équipés pour nourir l'esprit autant que le corps.I'm most tempted by the sanil thing, of course, always love to find out what those bloody foreigners really think of us ;-) And how right they are, most of the time.:-) Nous voilà tout équipés pour nourir l’esprit autant que le corps.I’m most tempted by the sanil thing, of course, always love to find out what those bloody foreigners really think of us And how right they are, most of the time.:-)

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