A memorable ceremony to open the Olympics found Paris plumbing its haunted past to acknowledge the world’s ever-present dangers
“France’s literature, music and philosophy are drenched in this stuff — idealists crushed at the barricades, bayed to death by Javert fanatics or head-seeking throngs, driven to dungeons from which they seek to break out into open air. This culture does not lend itself to cloying clichés. There is no escaping the buried truth of it — especially during this Olympics, an exercise taking place right on the cobblestones. By the way, there really is a large hidden lake beneath the opera house.”
Fonte: The Washington Post
Autore: Sally Jenkins
Link: At the Paris Opening Ceremonies, the best of times, or the worst?
