reading paris

"On a corner the smell of fresh croissants wafts from a patisserie. Time to get dressed. In a greengrocer's shop two men are arranging fruit and vegetables as if they were millinery. An uncle in a cafe is looking through a magnifying glass at the stock prices in the morning paper. He doesn't have to ask for the cup of coffee which is brought to him. The last street is being washed. Where's the towel, Maman? This strange question floats into the mind because the heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished... Paris is a mansion. Its dreams are the most urban and the most furnished in the world." - (John Berger "Imagine Paris" Keeping a Rendezvous)

***Napabili ng wala sa oras. I'm so excited to read this. And I'm so excited to buy another book entitled Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink. So hindi muna ako kakain for the next few days. I'll travel to Paris in my sweat pants.