Friday, January 15, 2010
Opening Sentence of the Day: The Flaneur
"Paris is a big city in the sense that London and New York are big cities and that Rome is a village, Los Angles a collection of villages and Zurich a backwater."
-- The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
January is the month for armchair travel and this book is just the ticket.
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That's a really great first sentance. Hope the rest of the book is just as lovely.
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