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Shakespeare & Co.
“Majestic and imposing is the Notre Dame Cathedral, while on the Senna as joyful and dancing strangers we’re getting closer to each other in musical ceremonies. Involving our souls and intoxicating ourselves of wine and hashish. This pleasure’s delights are increased by the evocative Moon which is rising high in the sky between the clouds, right there beside that gothic stateliness.
The lights reflected by the water are waking the most of everything on both sides of the bridge under we are staying to an overwhelming acoustic. Between direct sounds and feedbacks, which pressing are moving along and that are audible up to four bridges form here in both directions.
Directions to go all over for a glad and nightly walk after dances, laughings, the crackling hands of who’s without a musical instrument, rather than the drunken and screaming voices. And in this ritualistic time of this night I feel admiration and I rediscover the contact.
Now, in front of the front door, we’re standing and asking ourselves if it could be too late to scream someone’s name in order to be able to get in. But our doubts have been vanished, once again, by a friendly welcoming.
Here we are, finally in!
I have that feeling again, now stranger than when I came here, when the library was full of people. People who come here to find a book as usually happens in any bookshop or library. But then… enchanted and lured by silent screaming books, they stop here for a reading in this magic and comfortable place.
Our bed it’s in the Russian section, at the ground floor. I’m admiring silently and still incredulous while I’m laying down on the bed. It seems to me that I can feel all the books and all the people who touched them. While in a deafening silence I’m going toward the within of Oneiric landscapes.”
cga, Shakespeare and Company, August 2000.
Thank you George, it was a magic time to be.
This page was written by cga on Sun Nov 8 2009.