Word: serieux
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...outsider's view is that anyone who willingly orders choucroute deserves whatever he or she gets. The Alsatian plum tarts are much better. The main attraction, though, is the beer, which comes in glasses of increasing size, starting with a demi for a half-liter, working up to a serieux and finally a distingue, a mug holding a liter...
...mistress but he remarks with a straight face that female bodies interest him "less than female minds." Like many Jones characters he suffers from acute typecasting. As narrator, moreover, Hartley can be tiresomely chatty when extolling food or explaining that a beer at the Brasserie Lipp is called un serieux. But what weary reader will not thank him for such mercifully brief love-making moments as this: "I suppose we did just about everything that two people do together...
...full intention of marrying her. Comprehending his possibilities and limitations, he can neither renounce the world and become a saint, nor marry Maud. who is a free-thinker. Either way, to want everything or nothing, you've got to be crazy, fou, and by nature Jean-Louis is serieux -rational, dialectical...
...Prenons la Revolution au serieux, mais ne nous prenons pas au serieux."--voila peut-etre la phraseclef dans ce melange de boutades malines, de jeux-de-mots quasi (ou franchement) obscenes, de citations heroiques. "Je suis marxiste tendance groucho," ecrit un etudiant de Nanterre; "Je jouis dans les paves," declare un autre: nous ne sommes evidement pas parmi de graves doctrinaires. Dans l'ambiance febrile et joyeuse de mai meme les minettes du 16eme aident a la construction des barricades; a la colere, et a la passion anti-gouvernementale se mele un desir incoherent de participer au defi solidaire...
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