super-paris

Updated: May 9, 2025

Here is no weak remembrance of a lost Paris, but a French-Canadian's desire to express what he believes Paris must be; therefore a super-Paris, all in brown velvet and wicker tables, and at the back a long window edged with boxes red with geraniums, looking to a back-yard garden where rose-beds lead to a dancing-faun terminal in a shrine of ivy.

Sinclair Lewis - The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life