Monday 2 February 2009

A Life of Constant Triumph?

You cannot keep a good half-French protester down.

La Fille returned from our foray into the mass demonstration and General Strike on Friday and made herself a placard. It even had writing on it. To be more accurate it had a series of letters on it in no particular order. Still, you could say the same of some of the acronym plastered banners waved last week, though La Fille is refusing to say what R T H I L or P O E A M might stand for. If there had been a C or a B or an S, I might have guessed it was a call to arms for more chocolate, bonbons or sweets, but as it is I haven't a clue. Having decorated her paper 'placard' she then glued it to a wooden chopstick she dug out of a kitchen drawer and began striding up and down the apartment. I could have been accused of political indoctrination, though that was not my intention at all, were it not for the fact that she was wearing a horribly sparkly frilly 'princess dress', a silver coloured plastic tiara and matching clip-on earrings as she marched.

A quote from Richard Dreyfuss in a theatre review in The Times, to combat the February blues.

“There are things in my life I have no regrets about. Other things I’ve done, I wince at. The drugs, the arrogance. That stuff. But does anyone live a life of constant triumph?”

5 comments:

Henry the Dog said...

That's made me laugh out loud imagining your little pup stomping up and down with her placard and her frilly 'princess dress' and tiara. I guess you have to start them early in France don't you? The protesting and the strikes?

A Woman Of No Importance said...

Vive la revolution, sister!

I just love Richard Dreyfuss, for all his mind and madness!

Grumpy Old Ken said...

Definitely a union official in the making!

Paradise Lost In Translation said...

Well, she's half French, she's a chic protester. You can never be too well dressed for a protest march in Paris clearly, & she knows it...

Quincy said...

This is fantastic!