To visit Paris is to relive a memory, a previous visit not required.

There is an instant nostalgia you feel as a couple in Paris. The words from Casablanca, "We will always have Paris," seem to have been written for you alone.

The feeling builds as you stroll up the Champs Elysees toward the Arc de Triomphe.

The avenue seems endless; the Arc looms in a blue haze, seeming always in the far distance. You move as if in slow-motion, the focus of some hidden camera, other strollers just figures in a blurred background.

Paris seemed our private "parc"

For us alone its charm beguiled

For us the Champs stretched to the Arc

For us the Mona Lisa smiled

With thanks to Robert Brault

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If you think you are familiar with the Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy here is something to make you prick up your ears and listen again.
 

This video clip shows what it sounds like when all the instruments are made of glass; and when the whole piece is played by just two people, who spend all their time standing up.
 

The piece is played by GlassDuo on a glass harp - a very rare and extraordinary instrument.
 

It's the only glass music group in Poland, one of a very few professional ensembles in the world. The Musicians play in duo and with various chamber ensembles and even symphony orchestras.
 

GlassDuo's glass harp is the largest professional glass harp in the world and is not made up of glasses containing water, but very high quality glasses of differing sizes.
 

Up To A Monday Morning Challenge?  

Sir Winston Churchill Loved Them

We are not talking about Whisky & Cigars - Though we concede he was fond of these too.

No, we are talking about "Paraprosdokians", and some we expect have never even heard of the word. Winston though, loved them.

As usual Wikipedia reveals all, telling us that they are "A figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part"

Straightforward enough, so let's have some examples:-

  - Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

  - The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.

  - If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

  - War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  - I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

  - Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a
     fruit salad.

  - Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in

    a garage makes you a car.

  - You're never too old to learn something stupid - Like what a

    paraprosdokian is.

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