Nothing is coming out quite right tonight for clerkmanifesto, but that doesn't mean I don't have anything to show you. Sometimes too many things come out right and I sock them away for another day and forget about them. So all I have to do is wander into one of my vast repositories of photographs and grab a few fancy ones that catch my attention and voila.
Did you know that "voila" is a French word? I mean, of course you knew. I knew it was french, I guess, sort of. But in french it's just a regular word to use. It means "There it is". Which in English is "Voila". In learning French I especially love any free pass word, things like "impossible" which you have to say with your best Frenchified imitation to make work, but nevertheless it's right there, spelled the same, but spoken: im po see blay. The whole of learning French is so full of words like this (restaurant, grand, petite, film) that learning the language almost feels like one is cheating one's way through it.
I mean, up until you have to speak or understand it, at which point one realizes that all those free passes don't really do very much.
Anyway, here are some pictures I took around here recently, where I currently live, and where everyone speaks French.
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