Du bør først bestemme deg for hvor i byen du ønsker å bo. Paris er en stor by og med mindre du har store planer om å tilbringe mye tid under jorden på T-banen bør du konsentrere deg om et begrenset område.
Suverent mest spesielle steded jeg har bodd noen gang er bokhandleren Shakespeare & company. Som det står på hjemmesiden:
From the first day the store opened, writers, artists, and intellectuals were invited to sleep among the shop’s shelves and piles of books, on small beds that doubled as benches during the day. Since then, an estimated 30,000 young and young-at-heart writers and artists have stayed in the bookshop, including then unknowns such as Alan Sillitoe, Robert Stone, Kate Grenville, Sebastian Barry, Ethan Hawke, Jeet Thayil, Darren Aronfsky, Geoffrey Rush, and David Rakoff. These guests are called Tumbleweeds after the rolling thistles that “drift in and out with the winds of chance,” as George described. A sense of community and commune was very important to him—he referred to his shop as a “socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore.”
Three things are asked of each Tumbleweed: read a book a day, help at the shop for a few hours a day, and produce a one-page autobiography. Thousands and thousands of these autobiographies have been collected and now form an impressive archive, capturing generations of writers, travelers, and dreamers who have left behind pieces of their stories.
Nå var jeg ikke forfatter, kunstner eller spesielt intelektuell (fem års teknisk-naturvitenskaplig utdannelse kvalifiserer neppe), ikke hjalp jeg til i bokhandelen men jeg produserte den ene siden med selvbiograft...