like memory of music fled

I like that image, an octopus could make a handstand look like a piece of art I think. Of course in retrospect, I could have chosen many things, I just chose for that second. When I lived with a french family for a couple of weeks in my teens, everything was amazing, the hot chocolate and biscuits for breakfast, the snowy streets of Paris, the Louvre, Notre Dame. Then when I went on a school history trip, Chartres cathedral, the cheapness of the wine, the scariness of the Metro. Then with my family, the paintings in L'Orangerie, the food, the predatory expressions of french men, many things made impressions on me and there was my teenage love of the novelist Colette which I had totally forgotten until after I made my response....