«I say to you: one must still have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star. I say to you: you still have chaos in you»

📖 Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
🖼 A weekend of chaos in Paris, November 2018

🇫🇷🐀 Animal cause defend Paris rats amidst garbage collector strikes

👉🏻 While several thousand tons of waste litter the sidewalks of the capital, raising fears of health risks, an association for the defense of the animal cause is going to demonstrate today to "defend the rats", reports Le Parisien.

🔎 The association has planned a "small happening to defend the rats and other urban animals", where they will "raise awareness among passers-by by holding up silhouettes of rats to change the way we look at them".

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Nonetheless, he knew that the tale he had to tell could not be one of a final victory. It could be only the record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite their personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.

And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux
remembered that such joy is always imperiled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.

📖 The Plague (1947) — Albert Camus

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French unions see threat of Yellow Vest rerun over Macron's retirement push

French President Emmanuel Macron's move to force through his deeply unpopular pension reform, without a vote in parliament, could rekindle social unrest reminiscent of the Yellow Vest movement, union leaders and analysts have warned as protests continue to sweep the country.

🇫🇷Police in Paris began to search and detain people in an attempt to prevent another demonstration against pension reform

Kirill Fedorov

When we will be singing of the cherry season
The gay nightingale, and the mockingbird
Will all be in celebration
The beautiful ones will have folly in mind
And the lovers will have sunshine in their hearts
When we will be singing the cherry season
The mockingbird will whistle much better!

But it is very short, the cherry season
Where we go to pick while dreaming
Earrings...
Cherries of love with robes alike
Falling under the leaf in drops of blood
But it is very short, the cherry season
Coral pendants that one picks while dreaming!

📖 Le Temps des Cerises (1866) — Song about the insurrection of the Paris commune

🇫🇷🔥🏛 The National Assembly is completely blocked by the police few hours before the parliament's vote of no confidence against the pension reform. Many police controls in the surrounding streets.

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