The week before Christmas I had to go out to buy Christmas tree lights at Bon Marché, the Left Bank department store. Ours didn't work, for reasons I don't understand, since a lot of the electric lamps we brought with us do work. Apparently some American lights shine in Paris, and some don't, don't ask why. (Henry James wrote whole novels on this theme, after all.)
- Adam Gopnik, "The Winter Circus," p.51 in Paris to the Moon
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