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Saturday, May 30, 2015

VI.2.1. A WAR OF CHOICE BRINGS DISASTER


     Allégorie de la siège de Paris by Ernest Meissonnier, 1870 / zoom


Toward upheaval

    • "To Berlin!" cry Parisians
    • Hallucinations of an enclosed population 
    • Treason?
    • Tensions rise
    • The Guard becomes a counter-power
    • Cannons the army neglects 
    • Prussians parade but guards steal the show 
    • The Assembly pours oil on the fire
    • The cannons on the hills
    
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  • 8.3.1. Gardens replace a sugar refinery (1)
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  • 8.3.3. Posters on park railings (1)
  • 8.3.4. Greening (1)
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  • 8.4.1. Bleak walls. Huge murals (1)
  • 8.4.2. Voids that Intricate messages fill (1)
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  • 8.5. A district that leans left (1)
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  • 8.6.1. A banquet under the aerial métro (1)
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  • 9. "The future springs up from behind" (1)
  • 9x. EPILOGUES (1)
  • 9xx "Don't you have an agenda?" (1)
  • 9xxx "Yr teachng Comunsm to th police!" (1)
  • 9xxxx "Yr misld bt nt bought. Join us!" (1)
  • x. INDEX (1)
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  • x.ii. Omissions by trusted authorities (1)
  • x.iii. Dramas show how things work (1)
  • x.iv. Notice anomalies & details (1)
  • x.v. Priorities that urban designs reveal (1)
  • x.v. Visits based on observation (1)
  • x.vi. Mythology & nbles' claim of primacy (1)
  • x.vii. Outskirts: cauldrons of the arts (1)
  • x.viii. Recommendations (1)

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      • VI.2. "THE TERRIBLE YEAR"...
      • VI.2.1. A WAR OF CHOICE BRINGS DISASTER
      • "TO BERLIN!" CRY PARISIANS
      • HALLUCINATIONS OF AN ENCLOSED POPULATION
      • TREASON?
      • TENSIONS RISE
      • THE GUARD BECOMES A COUNTER-POWER
      • CANNONS THE ARMY NEGLECTS
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