Word: beggarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money). It is a confession, but not the kind in which remorse is pretended. Genet's self-revelation is mischievous, unrepentant, and not to be trusted. Genet strokes his central paradox-that total degradation can produce spiritual exaltation-as if it were a pet cat. Speaking of his beggar's lice, he says: "Having become -as useful for the knowledge of our decline as jewels for the knowledge of what is called triumph, the lice were precious...
...humble beggar, whilst you are a princess pure...
This apotheosis of the castoff has had worldwide repercussions. Paris' famed Flea Market is no longer a romantic shambles reminiscent of The Beggar's Opera but is getting to be more and more like a shopping center. It even has a parking lot. Flea Market stalls now sell for as much as $50,000 each and are often manned by antique dealers from the fashionable faubourgs, St.-Germain and St.-Honore. Their wares are mostly remarkable for their prices. On sale there last week was a velvet dog under glass for $100, a screen commemorating the 1900 Floradora...
...movies and drugstores are shut down for eight to 15 days. Every other shop in Paris bears the sign Fermeture annuelle. Most Western Europeans could well understand the sign posted last week outside the Church of Santa Lucia in Verona. It read, "Absent on vacation," and was signed, "The beggar of Santa Lucia...
There is an old Middle Eastern story about the beggar who boasts in the bazaar that he is going to marry the sultan's daughter. "I've decided to do it, and I have my parents' consent," said he. "All I have to do now is get her agreement-and the sultan...