"Why Paris? It's a kind of recent question. A few years ago nobody would have asked it. And it was even out of the question to ask such a question: Paris was the place!
Is Paris happening again? Maybe, in a different way than before. Too much idleness and solitariness was not too great for Paris. Now the world has changed--Paris, too. And the essence of Paris without its famous 'cliches' could be an inspiring idea again. We live for the idea that the spirit of places can be a kind of touchstone for the mind and body.
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The Seine will be forever in action, but Paris had become a troublesome dream with lots of inconveniences. However, when a place is back on the map, for often inexplicable reasons, people cope easily with those kinds of problems. Everything suddenly could be an inspiration--and we are all only looking for inspiration--hoping for a new and different 'atmosphere' and a new magic moment (one which should last as long as possible but rarely can).
We would all love a kind of new post--World War II Saint-Germain-des-Pres. But it could not exist that way today. Never compare times and places. It could happen anywhere in Paris. The idea that it could happen makes Paris suddenly different again, looked at with other eyes.