Europe 2018 - Same as it ever was? The cry for walls rebounds against the hollow stones and before long we all find ourselves prisoners. Not much more than serfs, bonded to the lands of our births. Miserably gainful - working local jobs, for local workers. Surviving day-to-day, putting a bit away, treating ourselves now …
"Non! Non! Non ... Répète après moi ...P-A-I-N A-U C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E!" We are in France and I am being chastised by a sanctimonious baker. He refuses to serve me the product I desire until my lesson is complete and my garbled request for a "choco pain" has been transmuted into perfect French, through the alchemy of shame. …
