WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS ..

A favourite cult film among students was the classic CASABLANCA.

and there is a line

We will always have Paris ..

Rick Blaine: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?

Capt. Louis Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.

Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.

Rick Blaine: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Ilsa: But what about us?

Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.

While living in London as a student, Paris might have been on another planet..soon it did arrive..

Long before it did,

Claude Levi-Strauss did. Michel Foucault did. Gilles de Leuze did. Jacques Derrida did.

It is a beautiful city, especially as the lights come out ..

City of Lights and Love ..

Recently I was able to spend a few days in Paris

all I can say is 

We will always have Paris..

as Alvaro Mutis would say of Maqroll, my alter ego

dressed as a travel agent, he would talk to her about love 

while crossing the Seine on Pont de Neuf.. and looking for a chance to steal a kiss..

I did buy a short sleeved shirt which makes me look like a Travel Agent..

On a recent evening, as the sun was going down I was waiting at the Pont Neuf

it felt so magical, lovers from many parts of Europe, staging an eternal moment, holding hands with looks etched into the future in their eyes..

We will always have Paris..