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Saturday, October 30, 2021
Montaigne's Tower
Who wants to go with me?!!!
https://wordscene.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/looking-at-the-world-from-the-tower-visiting-montaigne/
I tried to do a SA trip to England a few years ago. It was a lot of work, and I didn't finally have enough takers to make it go. But it's tempting. Where else in France should we go? Maybe we could visit the Monty Python castle (where the Galls hurled insults down at Arthur, in Holy Grail)...
Okay, work us up an itinerary. I think it should include stops at Sartre's and de Beauvoir's place, and at the cafe where they shared apricot cocktails with Camus. Read all about it in Bakewell's book "At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails"...
I know I sure would love to see it. Europe has been on my “Places to Travel To” list for quite sometime, and the list of desired stops grow more each year. The Colosseum, The Leaning Tower, The Louvre, Palace of Versailles, Norte Dame, Big Ben, etc. Now we can add Montaigne’s Tower to the list.
Are you really going, Mary?
ReplyDelete"Montaigne preferred to dictate his essais to a clerk sitting at a desk, as he found it hard to think while sitting down."
Exactly.
I am VERY tempted!!! Maybe you could put together a "study abroad" trip!?!?!!
DeleteI tried to do a SA trip to England a few years ago. It was a lot of work, and I didn't finally have enough takers to make it go. But it's tempting. Where else in France should we go? Maybe we could visit the Monty Python castle (where the Galls hurled insults down at Arthur, in Holy Grail)...
DeleteThat castle is in Scotland!!! But here is a "travel guide" for the philosopher in France...
Deletehttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/travel-france-following-in-sartre-s-footsteps-1073545.html
Okay, work us up an itinerary. I think it should include stops at Sartre's and de Beauvoir's place, and at the cafe where they shared apricot cocktails with Camus. Read all about it in Bakewell's book "At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails"...
DeleteI know I sure would love to see it. Europe has been on my “Places to Travel To” list for quite sometime, and the list of desired stops grow more each year. The Colosseum, The Leaning Tower, The Louvre, Palace of Versailles, Norte Dame, Big Ben, etc. Now we can add Montaigne’s Tower to the list.
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