The French are so busy wallowing in their existential estrangement — a state of mind Camus described as “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” — that they don’t even have the energy to be rude. ... It’s not that they’ve lost faith in their own superiority. They’ve lost faith that the rest of the world sees it. The whole country has, as Catherine Deneuve says of her crazy blue moods, une araignée au plafond — a spider on the ceiling.Poor baby. Watch this:
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Liberté, égalité, morosité: Boo hoo
You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this monument to almost self-parodying ennui. Here's a bit of it:
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