HOMMAGE On Friday, near midnight, Frédéric Chollet passed away after a long illness. I learned the news in a message sent from South Africa: “Fred est parti.” Fred… he was the one who picked me up at the Marseille airport when I moved to France. I’ll never forget stepping off the plane in my cowboy boots, fresh from the Arizona desert—a sharp contrast to Fred’s … Continue reading Goodbye Fred: On Love, Chocolate, and Immortality
Snapshots of France: the Basque town of Bidarray. Faire-partfer-parnoun, masculinean announcement (of birth or marriage or death) This morning I received an email from a longtime reader. Only, on closer look, there was something unusual about the courriel: the sender's full name was repeated in the email's subject line. The last time that I received such a letter from a subscriber address it was bad … Continue reading lecteur
Snapshots of France: the Basque town of Bidarray. lecteur (lek-tuur) noun, masculine : reader The feminine of "lecteur" is "une lectrice" Listen to today's word and the following quote: Download lecteur.wav. Download lecteur.mp3 En réalité, chaque lecteur est, quand il lit, le propre lecteur de soi-même.In reality, each reader is, when he reads, the own reader of himself. -Marcel Proust A Day in a French … Continue reading lecteur
