Honestly, we went to Paris first. We just wanted to confuse you. Paris might possiblly be the capital city of Urupe because it has a very big tower (= bog tower). Other cities have big towers as well, but not as iconic as Paris has. It is the Eiffel tower, a huge early industrial age tower. We wondered if it is still can be considered to be the same tower or that it now has all its constituent parts replaced so that it is actually not the same tower that Eiffel had built, but a totally new tower. Would that not be like a living being, a creature that recreates itself?
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?
. . . The cuckoo clock!”
Kris: “Did you know there was a Marx Cuckoo Clock Corporation, run by the Marx brothers?”
Me: “Really? The Marx brothers? Are they still in business?”
Kris: “Don’t think so.. you know the Marx brothers. By the time they actually start to make a profit they squander it on something.”
Me: :”I can’t really imagine the Marx Brothers making Cuckoo Clocks. Maybe it was an import company.”
Kris: “It should have read Marx Cuckoo Clock Corporation, Import.”
Me: “Something like that. ..You know what?”
Kris: “Sure?”
Me: “It is time for you to get off.”
Kris: “Oh.”
Me: “Yeah…time for you to leave the car.”
Kris: “Why?”
Me: “Because we are at ground level and you block the exit.”
Kris: “Oh right.. sorry.”
Me: “What else did you think.. wait you thought I was going to have you jump out?”
Kris: “You were quoting from the Third Man after all…”
Me: “Ah yes that is right..”
On the other hand.. we could always watch the movie..
