An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris Condition:Very Good Girl Friday (Dune Road)

Girl Friday (Dune Road)

this text continues to be used as the basis for teaching by modern Buddhist teachers

and there are birds that nest in cockleshells

the taste of fruit

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris Condition:Very Good Girl Friday (Dune Road)One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non event, the everyday "what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving school cars caught in their routes;