Chapter 39 Paris

The suffocation and indulgence of the city, here, there is the ocean to protect.In Paris, it was as if something had gone terribly wrong, and there was nothing but the intolerable shape of a big city.In Paris, there is a death market, a drug market, a sex market.There are people who kill old women.Someone set fire to the black ghetto, and there were six fires in two years.There is also a kind of car dweller in that place, who started their careers by car, are uneducated, brutal, hurt people, and use their cars to kill: they are the newly rich people who have made their fortunes from the money circulation controlled by the head, the dead general managers.These guys ride in Volvo cars and B. M． W．car.In the past, these trademarks also represented unobtrusive elegance, leather shoes, perfume, and polite speech.The kind of hipster with no lack of discernment, if you will.Now, no one wants to buy these brands of goods.The city of Paris has become the territory of Islam.People are submerged here and can't see it.It has become a place to protect crime, to cover it up, to attract criminals: that's what twelve million inhabitants are made of.Take, for example, the recent crime, that of Georges Bess, which could only be imagined in Paris, and which took place in a protective open space, inside a concrete enclosure.Its confusion becomes its walls.It is this chaos that binds the successive suburbs together.This has been around for twenty years.The highways weave through this chaos, linking the chaos all the way to the international airport.The suburban highway traffic map is no longer available, and even if there is, it won't work. It's over.Nothing can be seen on the traffic map except the main axis.In Paris, forests everywhere are notorious.At night the Bois de Boulogne is occupied by the police and prostitutes, and by day it belongs to the dealers.What is left for us "respectable people"?In Paris, foreigners are received very badly.Paris is the worst place to eat in France.The sixth arrondissement, the mesmerizing terrace of France, visited by intellectuals from all over the world, is now considered one of the worst places to eat.Like all tourist places, there are only two or three exceptions to the cuisine of the sixth arrondissement, such as Lipe's restaurant or St. Benoit's restaurant.Asian restaurants, pet feed stores②, don’t talk about it, there is nothing left, Asian kittens, poor little animals, don’t talk about it.In Paris, there are more dogs.Dogs are not a problem, no one eats dog meat anymore.In short, something is wrong with the city.What went wrong?Is it a motor vehicle?I may be inclined to this view.Schooling is also bad, and continues to this day, through generations.Perhaps these people have not studied well, and their knowledge is getting poorer and poorer, so they can't learn anything and become ignorant, so it is inevitable.After that, life is no more.So the school is not trusted, and the elementary school and university are not trusted at all.So behave badly.Education, etiquette, refined self-cultivation, all spiritual temperament is lost, leaving only a business intelligence.

①English, businessman. ② Pet feed store (Pateronron), a store specializing in cat and dog food. Ten years ago there were twelve million people in the suburbs of Paris. I have not seen official figures for a long time now, and it may be impossible to enumerate the population of the suburbs.There may be many floating population among them. These people have no fixed residence and live in a hidden state.Compared with drugs, theft and terrorism, this situation must have become the content of a city in the provinces.The number of people without a job, without a job, without a home, without a family, without a document has reached a huge number, so no one worries about it anymore, they are abandoned, like children in Mexico, finished.If there is no food source, go to the supermarket to steal. If there is no source of livelihood, shoes and clothes can be stolen. As for coffee and cigarettes, the interests are related and we can unite and help each other.This kind of people already has a unique skin color, the so-called mixed-race skin color, the racial composition of this skin color cannot be determined, and they all have curly black hair and dark eyes.They were all tall and handsome, and they formed the first team that later went on in the general strike (predicted in "Green Eyes").Here are some stagnant people.They do nothing.They just live.They just go and watch.They can be seen standing there in the halls of Tarti, in the subways and stations, in front of the department store Cléteil-Soleil.

① "Green Eyes" is a film play published by the author in 1980. ②Creteil-Soleil (Creteil-Soleil), a department store specializing in low-end goods in Paris. Paris could no longer move.It can't scale out at normal speed.Paris no longer has the same sensibility as it once did, and one thinks one comes here to be closer to that sensibility, one thinks one can always acquire that sensibility in the capital, the most essential aspect of all knowledge, from architecture, art, Writing art, painting art all the way to political art.Ask the suburbanites, and the suburbanites say: "I used to live in Chatelet-Rambouillet, and then I got tired of it, so I came to Paris to be closer." Just for that reason .What was closer, he couldn't tell.This kind of inexplicability that cannot be explained for a long time may be closer to the meaning that can be understood by all the words of life sensibility.These people moved to Paris, to the capital, in order to give their lives a subservient, social, almost mythical sensibility, that meaning.Once out of the gates of Paris to the north, one soon enters a chilling realm, from Saint-Denis to Cournavé to Sarcelles.In the southwest, fortunately, there is the miraculous enclave of the Palace of Versailles③, where you can immediately see vast fields, forests, free roads, and town squares, making you dizzying.But the full and full sensibility, the leading meaning, is still in Paris.

① Chatelet, a city in north-central France, the provincial capital of Ole-Loire.Rambouillet, near the town north of Chatelet. ②Saint-Denis, the capital of the Seine-Saint-Denis province in the northern suburb of Paris; Cournave, in the northern suburb of Paris, and Sarcelles, the Val d'Oise province in the northern suburb of Paris.Mostly industrial areas. ③Versailles is 18 kilometers southwest of Paris. It was originally a hunting place for King Louis XIII of France, and was later built as a city by Louis XIV.The name comes from the Latin Versus (hillside) plus the suffix -alia, and the city was named after the city was built on a gently undulating hillside.

Who has spoken more fully of the beauty of Paris in its various seasons, the Sundays in summer, the evenings in winter, when the streets are deserted and silent, and the highways.There is no city in the world built like it, with such unheard-of opulence in clear spaces.There is a large section in the assortment of buildings that rivals Versailles.In summer, the beauty of the river is fully revealed, together with its tree shadows, its gardens, some streets extend forward due to the river, some meander along the river, and the undulating slopes of hills, from Star Square, Mongolia Parnass, Montmartre, and Belleville all have slopes stretching between them.The only area in the city that is shaped like a plate is the Louvre Palace, which continues to the Place de la Concorde.And this part of the island②.

① A translation of the Louvre, originally the French royal palace, opened up as the National Museum of Fine Arts in 1793. ② refers to the Ile de France on the Seine River in the center of Paris.