St. Pierre et Miquelon

When I said France you guessed Cannes? No.  A business partner of mine is suffering that indignity and paying 20 euros per G & T for the privilege.  I was, instead, in the French Department of St. Pierre and Miquelon.

pilota court St. Pierre

My long time good friend Gerry Porter (he designed this site) gave me, for my birthday in 1989, a card, that he had illuminated, of Walter Benjamin’s “The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses”.  I keep it in my office. Number XI commands : “Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there”.  Heeding Mr. Benjamin, I sat at a desk in a hotel room in St. Pierre, the scent of Gauloises brunes and French palaver and fog coming in the open window, and finished the play.