Paris Pastiche
Photos by Marla Norman, Publisher
Any attempt to say something novel about Paris is futile. Over the centuries, volumes have been written about this loveliest of cities. Literary geniuses, journalistic hacks, love-sick tourists — all inspired to put pen to paper — in an effort to capture just a single expressive bit of joie de vie….an effortlessly chic phrase….a crumb from the moveable feast…
Here are a few choice samples — love notes, if you will — in praise of Paris.

I.M. Pei Glass Pyramid and Louvre
“You can’t escape the past in Paris, and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden.”
Allen Ginsberg

Basilique du Sacré-Cœur at the summit of Montmartre.
“If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.”
Alan Furst

Tuileries Garden
“When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.”
Henry Miller

On the Seine, across from Notre Dame.
“A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.”
Kate Simon