An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris Condition:Very Good even as the odds are

even as the odds are stacked against you

the taste of fruit

As she steps back from the page and allows the Khans to speak for themselves

It started with an irresistible urge to shake his head

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris Condition:Very Good even as the odds areOne overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non event, the everyday "what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving school cars caught in their routes;