Altogether

Was looking for a book -Alone Together - at Barnes & Noble's. Turned out there are more than ten books with same title. Probably the authors were so isolated that they did not know of the existence of the other books.
They were provably published before the internet allowed searches...Probably this explains the development of  the social media. Now we are all connected together and lonely.

Cocteau c'est moi

Is it cultural confusion or just my confused memory? I wrote a post Charlie c'est moi when everybody uses Je suis Chalie. My intent was to allude to the famous Cocteau "C'est moi" from La machine a ecrire. Or was it in Cocteau's La machine infernale?

Martyrdom irony

Analyzing my previous post on Charlie killings. First - it was about me, not about the horror or the dead? [It seems this entire blog tries to be a kind of selfie - everything is about me.] So in fact I used the opportunity of this  criminal act to criticize the victims. Carrying on without shame,  I continue to clarify -They might be representative of the extremes of the freedom of the press, but they were not funny. They, the Charlie editors, thought insulting is funny in or by itself. They lacked the tools of irony. It is ironic that they are the ones that became the martyrs of funny. They would have still laughed at the thought that their assassins died in a press shop.
There is more irony.  The people gathered in  Place de la Republique had signs in English -Not Afraid
Here goes the glory of the French culture ( in a year that saw a French Jewish writer got the Nobel prize, mainly on themes of Jewish memory).  Expressing courage in a different language.
Beautiful blog about satire in the era of the internet when your eye-blink might not be noticed by people of different cultures.