Comments on: On the City Pattern Project: Parisian Booksellers Edition

By: The Gay Recluse

The Gay Recluse — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:48:10 +0000

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone! I was trying to remember the word “bouquinistes”!

By: Carla

Carla — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:15:40 +0000

Oh, just the site of les bouquinistes wares makes me swoon and pine for a walk along Le Rive Gauche. Oh, when will the economy rebound so that I can plan a trip without a terrible sense of dread that it is too frivolous, too risky to jump on that plane?

By: James van Maanen

James van Maanen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:49:50 +0000

Such imaginings, such images, such poetry… Thanks!

By: Anon in Paris

Anon in Paris — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:19:06 +0000

It’s difficult not to have mixed feelings about les bouquinistes – while they certainly are a tourist trap, on a par with the painters in Montmartre’s place du Tertre, it’s difficult to envision the quais de Seine without their strange, green boxes.

By: c.

c. — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:03:10 +0000

Nice snap of the poster mélange, anchored just-right by Miss Boop, with her crossed legs.

You are right to worry about puncturing the dream — a dream that apparently was real, but is indeed, inevitably, fading:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/179276

Anyway, I would think for a ghost, Paris would be a particularly desirable “haunt.” I wonder if it’s as hard to claim in that world as it is in ours.