For long intervals, no buses, no
cars
The
end of mass
The
rain starts falling again.
National Day for the Elderly: lots of
people are wearing little
paper badges on the collars of their
coats or their
raincoats: these prove that they’ve already contributed
A 63 goes by
A
lady carrying a cake-box goes by (classic image of the exitings of Sunday mass effectively testified here)
Some
children
Some wheeled
shopping bags
A 2CV whose windshield is adorned with a caduceus, driven by an elderly gentleman,
parks at the edgs of the
sidewalk; the elderly
gentleman comes to look for an
elderly lady in the café who is drinking a coffee while
reading Le Monde
An elegant
woman goes by, holding, stems up, a large bouquet of
flowers.
A 63 goes by
A little girl goes by, carrying two large bags of
groceries
A bird settles atop a
lamppost
It is noon
Gust of
wind
Georges Perec,
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Trans. Marc Lowenthal, Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2010 41-42.
