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The Expatriot : No. 1 |
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January 1995Where I’m At I’m still wondering what I’m doing in a way, why I’m going to France. I know the answer, that is, my head knows. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time — to live in Europe. It seems like almost a prosaic dream nowadays; a kind of bourgeois rite of passage. Yet what it offers, at least in my imagination, is very attractive. Direct experience with a foreign culture, finding out about it, exploring it like a new terrain of life. Learning what it is that I take for granted and finding out why it’s not really granted. Learning what the French take for granted. My head also strongly suspects that my heart will soon ratify my decision. ... Read more by downloading the file. Notes Printed in an edition of 100 on a 300 d.p.i. PostScript laser printer; reprinted as needed in smaller editions. |
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