IX. "THE FUTURE SPRINGS UP FROM BEHIND"

 

THE VIOLENT, TRAGIC AND FINALLY SUCCESSFUL STRUGGLES OF THE PAST ARE THE REASON FOR THE INFINITELY HAPPIER CITY NOW

"We've forgotten 1848, but we still hear the Commune's scream," a professor said in the 1960's. Militants of the Popular Front and members of the French Resistance looked back to it. 

 "The future is not what is in front of us, 

but springs up from behind." 

-- Rahel Levin

Heroines and songs of La Commune, under street art in the 13th.

Almost, but not quite,

the end of Blook I.

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IX.x 

Epilogues