h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not to forget that Rimbaud hate Charlesville and thought of it as petits bourgeois narrow minded place!

Frankly, they probably were... Some still are (ok, not the same people, but the same type of people)

On the other hand, the Charleville petits bourgeois thought of him as a drugged-up, continuously-drunk weirdo (which he more-than-probably was, actually).
I do like his poetry, though.

I agree..must have been hard for both side and good people live everywhere.

one must admit that tolerance and open-mindedness were rather thin on the ground in little province towns.
While I have the utmost respect for Rimbaud as a poet, I don't think I'd have liked the man much, myself.
By the way, I saw a shadowplay illustration of his "le bateau ivre" last night, very beautiful, and it was a street show. And while driving home tonight, I heard "le dormeur du val" on radio festival (the temporary radio for the puppet festival, broadcasting music and info about shows).

I think he was partly a awful young snot with dubious practices...but I think...being a sharply perceiving person..is a drama in each society,even these days....(as example you might have a look at my "complexity phobia "topic!)...one of my grandmas knew...why she
left that region,to join in the Parisian boeheme.

Neither less The nature is splendid.

I went to Uni in Wuppertal - which grew together out of Barmen, Elberfeld, Vohwinkel, and a few other towns.

Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen. He's best known for his writing about how everyone's equal and so on, strengthening the proletariat - but he was also rather intolerant when it came to Vohwinkel and Elberfeld, which were at the time rival cities. He kept writing texts about how slow and stupid they all were

So yes, I think nearly anyone will assume that about people who are different...

anything about Marx and Trier?

everyone's equal, but some are more equal than others?

At the Festival there's an adaptation of Orwell's Animal Farm. I'm going to try to see it tomorrow.

Seems you meat some of the sad kids "empowered" in here,who play nasty clique games!courage!

I couldn't get in, after all.
ah well, I'll have to read it.