The first impression I had of the Louvre was the rainbows on the floor. The museum’s famous glass pyramid combines with the sunlight from outside to make a sort of prism. As a result, the cold, white marble floor by the ticket counter becomes periodically covered in an enormous crisscross pattern of brightly dancing rainbows. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Paris’
June 19, 2008
Language Limbo
I feel like a zombie as I stand in the security line at the Miami airport. My ears remain full of whatever it is ears get full of on airplanes, air? Mucus? Anxiety? Zombie death?
Everyone around me looks like they have also been reanimated. People groan. Pick up their bags. Set their bags down. We [...]
June 19, 2008
Experiencing the Eiffel Tower
Before I arrived in France, I eagerly anticipated seeing its various attractions. Locations such as the Louvre and Giverny had long been the stuff of my dreams. Yet, in all of my excitement about what France had to offer, I did not give the Eiffel Tower much of a thought. Despite its iconic status, and [...]
June 19, 2008
While I was away…
Me: I miss Samantha. I Miss her. I miss Samantha and she makes me feel important. She makes me feel talented. Attractive, intelligent, and wanted.
Samantha: I hate Paris. I hate you in it. I hate that you haven’t talked to me in four days. Scratch that, you haven’t tried to communicate with me in four [...]
June 19, 2008
C’mon C’mon C’mon C’mon
Here we are (me and Frank)
at Jim Morrison’s Grave
Frank wanted to read here.
Whatever.
Doesn’t really hold much significance to me,
I’ve heard a handful of the Doors’ songs.
Catchy, dated.
Some kid has his headphones on,
he’s looking rather reverent,
I wonder what he’s listening to.
Frank’s striking up a conversation
and the girls are loving it.
Frank says Morrison is a poet in [...]
June 19, 2008
A Painting and a Little Luck Can Change a Life
Certain moments possess an amount of incomprehensible serendipity. For a night like this to have come when it did for me, on the very last night of my first trip into the land of “Par-EE,” is especially ironic. For, as a trip is coming to a close, people have a remarkable ability to do everything [...]
June 6, 2008
La Vie De Tout
After just under twenty hours of flying, driving, waiting in airport terminals, and bus hoping through French traffic, it’s safe to say most people would be disoriented. Moreover, when all of this travelling has landed a person in a foreign country, the first foreign country he has ever been to nonetheless, this disorientation process is [...]
