April 30, 2007

From Gopnik's Paris to the Moon
Yet fifty years after the classic period, one cafe is more fashionable than ever and the other is not fashionable at all...The reason that when you place any two things side by side, one becomes chic and the other does not is that it's in the nature of desire to choose, and to choose absolutely. That's the mythological lesson of the great choice among the beauties: They are all beautiful - they are goddesses - and yet a man must choose. And what was the chooser's name? Paris. C'est normal.

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