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- Diving, teasing
an angel-fish in the Red Sea, passing over these huge worlds that
are the corals, and the jolting cold when entering a mountain lake,
submersed forests, and this world of dreams, dreams I had when I was
a child who thought she could fly…
- Cats, all of
them, all races, street cats, tomcats and small kitty-cats, Russian
Blues and their poised elegance, Maine Coons and their cosy softness,
tortoise shell and tabbies, Kiki-la-Doucette, Koubbie, Vanessa, Papillotte,
Rossini, Zaza, The-One-That-Has-No-Name, Sachatte, Princesse, Pompon,
the Cat of the Rabbin, Korats, Abyssinians… and all the furs I crossed
one day or another.
- Polar Lights.
- One dog, honorary
cat, Hati, and The Big One, also called the Grey One, let her be happy
in Dogs’ Paradise, she was full of humour and love, collies, Keeshonds,
huskies and shepherd…
- Falconry.
And the majesty of wolves.
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- Photo Lab smell,
and the one of the melted tarmac, Rouge by Hermès and Femme by Rochas,
cinnamon and maritime pines.
- Atlantic skies,
burning with light, and Nordic milky sunsets, and ocean’s salted savour.
- Marguerite Yourcenar
and Zeno of Brugges, and the Water that Runs, Kessel, Princes’ Nights
and the Lion’s warmth, Barbey d’Aurevilly and his 8 o’clock pm ringing
at the Valognes’ belfry, Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf.
- Pitigrilli’s
Live Lessons.
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- Sunny early
mornings, birds’ songs at sunrise, sunsets, and night’s silence.
- Zubrowska thick
as a liquor when so deep frosted.
- Beer tandoori
rabbit, ris de veau and my very personnal and non-casher version of
Tsibele mit Leibe.
Sushi, toro, yellow tail and miso soup.
- "In Praise
of Shadows", by Tanizaki.
- Baroque music
and deep baritones, the aria of the Queen of the Night.
- Paris, New
York, London and Berlin, Varangeville and Tadoussac, Marrakech and
Taroudant.
- Jean Guidoni,
Maurane, Cesaria Evora, Vissotski, Bobby Lapointe and Leonard Cohen
- Calligraphy,
works of Lassaâd Métoui, and of Hassan
Massoudy.
- Francis
Bourgeon, and the « six seasons on IlÔ », Sambre and Alley
Oop.
- Blue, black,
green, Hokusai, Manierists, Kandinsky, skies by Patinir and Vermeer
and those who speak so well about them Fayoum’s portrait, and the
proud virgins by Rossetti.
- Peer Ice-cream.
- Freshness of
pure water.
- Sleep under the starry sky in the desert, and the astringent of a
wild water melon.
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- Long journeys,
huge African sceneries, the Namib, small worlds’ awakening when a
heron takes its fly over the Orange River, and the endless days
crossing the boring bush, Morocco.
Noble Niemen and powerful Zambezi, my river Seine, the sound of
running water and the whisper of the undertow.
- Iris, arum
lilies and begonias.
- Long evenings
with friends, long walks with a camera, and long hours reading in a
big club chair.
- Lauren Bacall’s
eyes and Kristin Scott-Thomas slenderness.
- Theater,
Rostand, Dario Fo, Yasmina Réza, Bérénice, Antigone,
Maria Pacôme and Harvey Keitel.
- Dune, Assassin’s
Quest and Ship of Magic, and Darkover.
- Concrete deeds,
opposed to big theories…. For example, Sponsorship for Heart
Surgery, Salgado's Fundation, and the Ayyour in Mezgarne….
- Steps of a
tango in a smoky bar.
- My 50mm f1.8
- Leaves fall and
designs formed by frost, ghost born out of the fog, and fairy
tales...
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- Artichokes, spinach
(even with bechamel sauce), lukewarm beer.
- Jellyfishes,
because I’m allergic.
- Wake up too early,
run to go to work. And run around in a stadium.
- mpoliteness,
vulgarity, gougnaffiers, and people so full of themselves, thick laughs.
- Politically correct
empty talks and « ism » words.
- Winter sadness
of small German towns, uniformity of English industrial suburbs, and
Parisian ring a 17 :00.
- Noise, over 80
décibels.
- Pop Star and
the Weakest Link.
- Ice cream with
artificial strawberry flavour.
- Aggressive feminism
and the sneaky return of a despising male chauvinism.
- Genre's confusion,
abusive generalisations, people who refuse to think and hide behind
slogans.
- War, violence,
our well-being of rich countries, unaware of the poverties which allow
us to life.
- Walls, frontiers,
camps, attacks on freedom of life and think, but also abusive use
of these liberties.
- Too slow internet
sites, useless flash animations and jumping gifs.
- The noise of
the solitary pea in the cranial cavity.
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