Paris in Love and War

By: Gerard Pareja November 21,2015 - 02:30 AM

Nakaadto naka sa Paris, France? Ako wala pa ug maurag dili gyud ako maka adto nianang lugara. Apan ang mga higala ko nga artist nga sila ni Josua ug Radel naka bisita sa maong lugar. Hinuon ang Paris daw susama sa buwan nga bisag dili ka makataak niani daw apil na kini sa imong panghunahuna.

Kon manunulat ka tingali gi-romanticize mo ang panahon nila ni Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein diin ilang naka jam ang mga pintor sama nila ni Pablo Picasso didto sa Paris. Gani tungod sa pag romanticize sa maong bohemian existence miadto usab didto si Henry Miller, pipila ka dekada human nila ni Hemmingway, ug gahimo sab kinig iyang kaugalingong myth kabahin sa maong lugar. Ang iyang wild exploits didto migawas sa iyang libro nga “Tropic of Cancer.”

Kon historian ka, nakaila ka gyud ni Napoleon Bonaparte ug Charles de Gaulle. Ug nakabasa ka na usab tingali kabahin niadtong heneral ni Hitler nga wala mo tuman sa mando sa iyang amo nga gub-on ug patagon ang Paris kay usikan siya sa katahum niani kon gub-on man lang.

Kon cinephile ka mobutho tingali sa imong hunahuna ang mga maanyag nga dagway nila Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Adjani, Audrey Tatou, Sophie Marceau, Juliette Binoche ug karon lang bag-o si Eva Green, kon hisgutan ang Paris. Of course kinsay makalimot sa “Midnight in Paris” ni Woody Allen nga mihatag og cameo role ni Carla Bruni nga maoy first lady niadto.
Mao dihang gi-rakrakan sa mga terrorista ang unom ka lugar sa maanyag ug malinawong lugar daw naguol usab ako bisag wa gyud akoy kaila didto. Gawas sa “La Vie en Rose” ni Edith Piaff ang kantang mosulod sa akong huna mao ang kang Joni Mitchell nga “Freeman in Paris.” Ania ang lyrics sa maong kanta:

The way I see it, he said/You just can’t win it/Everybody’s in it for their own gain/You can’t please ’em all/There’s always somebody calling you down

I do my best/And I do good business/There’s a lot of people asking for my time/They’re trying to get ahead/
They’re trying to be a good friend of mine/I was a free man in Paris/I felt unfettered and alive/There was nobody calling me up for favors

And no one’s future to decide/You know I’d go back there tomorrow/But for the work I’ve taken on/Stoking the star maker machinery/Behind the popular song/I deal in dreamers/And telephone screamers/Lately I wonder what I do it for/If l had my way/I’d just walk out those doors

And wander/Down the Champs Elysee/Going cafe to cabaret/Thinking how I’ll feel when I find/That very good friend of mine/I was a free man in Paris/I felt unfettered and alive/Nobody was calling me up for favors/No one’s future to decide/You know I’d go back there tomorrow
But for the work I’ve taken on/Stoking the star maker machinery/Behind the popular song.

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