"THE FUTURE SPRINGS UP FROM BEHIND"

 

THE VIOLENT, TRAGIC AND IN MANY WAYS SUCCESSFUL STRUGGLES OF THE PAST EXPLAIN THE INFINITELY HAPPIER CITY OF TODAY

"We've forgotten 1848, but we still hear the Commune scream," I recall a professor saying in the 1960's. Of course the members of the French Resistance, to whom we directly owe so much, 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, seen under street art in the 13th.

End of Part IX

and almost, but not quite,

the end of the blook.

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Epilogues