at ordet forsøg netop er den direkte oversættelse af titlen på Michel de Montaignes Essais

hvordan vi oplever arkitekturen

hvor hun dyrker helbredende urter

explores similar ground

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Paris France at ordet forsøg netop erAll Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way. Gertrude Steins Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Steins life in France, and the perfect introduction to her