The Arcades Project - Operi

In Le 6 o(/obn, in Chapter 17, "Le Grand Voyage du petit garou" (pp. 176-184),
Romains describes how Louis Bastide makes his journey through Montmartre,
from the corner of the Rue Ordeuer to the Rue Custine: "He had a mission to
accomplish. Somebody had commissioned him to follow a certain course, to
carry something, or perhaps to bear news of something" (p. 179):14 In this game
of travel, Romains develops some perspectives-particularly the alpine landscape
of Montmartre with the mountain inn (p. 180)-which resemble those in
which the H&neur's imagination can lose itself. [MI4a,3]
Maxim of the fHinenr: (,In our standardized and uniform world, it is right here,
deep helow t.he surface, that we must go. Estrangement and surprise, the most
thrilling exoticism, arc all close hy." Daniel Hal{wy, Pays parisiens (Paris