at ordet forsøg netop er den direkte oversættelse af titlen på Michel de Montaignes Essais

'Seeing comes before words

explores similar ground

som fortjener en plads blandt vores allerstørste klassikere

hvordan vi oplever arkitekturen

Paris France at ordet forsøg netop erAll Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way. Gertrude Steins Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Steins life in France, and the perfect introduction to her