Attempt to Exhaust a Parisian Place
Date: October 18, 1974
Time: 10:30
Place: Tabac Saint-Sulpice
Weather: dry, cold. Grey sky. Minor flashes of sun.
Sketch of an inventory of some things strictly visible:
-Letters of the alphabet, words: “KLM” (on someone's carrying bag), a capital “P” designating “parking”, “Hotel Recamier”, “St Raphael”, “money adrift”, “taxis arriving at the station”, “Rue du Vieux-Colombier”, “La Fontaine Saint Sulpice brewery and bar”, “P ELF”, “Saint-Sulpice Park”.
-Conventional symbols: signs under the “P” of parking lots, one slightly angled toward the ground, the other, towards rue Bonaparte (on the Luxembourg side), at least four signboards seeming to speak, that is, interjecting (a fifth reflected in the café window).
-Numbers: 86 (at the crest of a bus of class 86, indicating its place of origin: Saint-Germain-des-Pres), 1 (name plate no. 1 of rue Vieux-Colombier), 6 (here to indicate that we are in the 6th Paris arrondissement).
-Fleeting slogans: “From the bus, I spy Paris”
-On the ground: a pile of gravel and sand
-Stone: sidewalk edging, a fountain, a church, houses...
-Asphalt
-Trees: (leafy, yellowing)
-Quite a large piece of sky (perhaps 1/6th my visual field)
-A cloud of pigeons suddenly pounding the central platform between church and fountain
-Vehicles (their inventory remains to be taken)
-Human beings
-A type of basset hound
-Bread (A baguette)
-Lettuce (wilted?) protruding from the top edge of a shopping b
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