After The Storm

Emile Zola, Photographer

Is it real ? Is it fake ? (i.e., AI / IA ?) Look closely. Something wrong ? Clearly a fake. Did Paris ever really look like that ? All those fantastic, dreamy castles along the Seine ? What gives ? What happened to them ? Is this the same Zola of the novels, or maybe his identical twin brother ? (Every word of every author is being fed into the Big Machine now without their permission, so why not their images, too ?) What does the word reality even mean these days? What’s the story here ?

Comments are open on this one, so feel free. Yes, there is a story here…Coffee is still the staff of life in the little one-roomer in Gagny I now call home, so….to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, what’s the point of resisting temptation ? Come on. Ask a question or two and buy the grubby old scribbler a round here.