Hello from Paris

Started by ABlaine, October 23, 2016, 05:50:41 AM

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ABlaine

#15
October 23, 2016, 11:56:58 AM
Quote from: Stella Maris on October 23, 2016, 11:41:33 AM
Quote from: zork on October 23, 2016, 11:28:28 AM
Herzlich willkommen!

Wrong language, zork!  ;)

Coincidentally, I actually began taking a German class a week ago. One of my bosses is German so I figured it would be worth the effort since I'd have someone to bother (not to mention all the wonderful literature that has come out of German speaking Europe).

MilesChristi

#16
October 23, 2016, 12:10:49 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 05:50:41 AM
Hello everyone! Just wanted to quickly introduce myself - and I see that there is a form so I'll start there.

What brings you to SD? I've recently moved from being passively Catholic to going to a TLM mass here in Paris. It has been transformational, really. I can't imagine why all parishes aren't like the one I attend now.
Are you a member of other Internet fora?  If so, care to mention which one(s)? Just talkclassical. I haven't been very active there as of late.
Why did you choose your username and avatar? Just a character from a book I've always loved.
What is your state of life - single, married, religious, or still discerning? Single. I'm 23, definitely want to get married and have kids. So I guess I've discerned that already.
Whereabouts do you live "in real life"? (be as specific or as general as you wish!) Paris. I live right in the middle (near the Louvre)
Personality type? Not sure really. I'm very outgoing but other than that...
Favorite books? The Metamorphoses, De Rerum Natura, Ab Urbe Condita, anything by Lysias, Plato's Phaedrus, Naiv. Super (Erlend Loe), Doppler(also Erlend Loe), Pierre et Jean, Bel-Ami, Le Voyage au centre de la terre, La terre des hommes, Swiss Family Robinson, The Idiot, Anna Karenina, anything by H. Rider Haggard.
Favorite movies? The Sound of Music, It's a Wonderful Life, Lawrence of Arabia, Khartoum, Mosquito Coast.
Favorite TV shows? Fraiser, I also still like Pokémon but haven't actually watched it in a long time. The latest season of south park has been great.
Favorite sports/teams None.
Have any hobbies? Used to rock climb a lot, now I just run and go to the gym. Other htan that I love going to the symphony, the theatre, and the opera. I also like to go out to eat and go to the various clubs, etc of Paris on the weekend. I also like clothes just enough to care how I look and to take care of them.
Pet peeves: People that don't know how to eat at a dinner table (chewing with their mouth open, etc). People that wear too much cologne, bite their nails, or who have poor hygeine in general.
Fun random fact about yourself: I'm british-american but I've never actually been to the UK in my life.

Anyway, so yeah. I'm American but live in Paris (cue Gershwin), I moved here like 4 months ago as a change of pace after graduation. I now work as a marketing lead at a startup and also at a small venture capitalist. Both fun jobs but it really eats into my free time. I graduated from university in the US (Geology and classics) and didn't like the one job offer I got, so I bailed on the whole show.

So I'm here because I am not happy with the direction that the west is taking and I blame that mostly on the decline of the catholic church (the other problem is the shift toward modern 'democracy' but I'm not sure how many people here would actually agree with this sentiment!). The decline of the Church I blame on the NO, etc. you walk around Paris today and it's like we are living in the ruins of a great civilization that is long gone - but at my church it feels like that civilization is still alive, if dimmed.

Nice to meet everyone

Welcome, where do you go to Mass? I was going to St Eugene weekly when I was in France two years ago.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Stella Maris

#17
October 23, 2016, 12:21:19 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 11:56:58 AM
Quote from: Stella Maris on October 23, 2016, 11:41:33 AM
Quote from: zork on October 23, 2016, 11:28:28 AM
Herzlich willkommen!

Wrong language, zork!  ;)

Coincidentally, I actually began taking a German class a week ago. One of my bosses is German so I figured it would be worth the effort since I'd have someone to bother (not to mention all the wonderful literature that has come out of German speaking Europe).

Fantastisch! What other languages do you speak?

ABlaine

#18
October 23, 2016, 12:50:26 PM
Quote from: Stella Maris on October 23, 2016, 12:21:19 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 11:56:58 AM
Quote from: Stella Maris on October 23, 2016, 11:41:33 AM
Quote from: zork on October 23, 2016, 11:28:28 AM
Herzlich willkommen!

Wrong language, zork!  ;)

Coincidentally, I actually began taking a German class a week ago. One of my bosses is German so I figured it would be worth the effort since I'd have someone to bother (not to mention all the wonderful literature that has come out of German speaking Europe).

Fantastisch! What other languages do you speak?

I used to know Norwegian pretty well, however I haven't had to use it (or actively tried to maintain it) for the better part of 6 years. I'm reading a Norwegian book a relative sent me and it has been tough going. But other than that and my not-quite-good-enough French I can read Latin well and Attic Greek with work (studied both in college). That's really it. I'd LOVE to learn Italian, and I suppose it should be easy after Latin, but I just don't have to time!

Carleendiane

#19
October 23, 2016, 03:33:03 PM
Hello to you. You will enjoy it here.Glad to welcome a new member to the forum!
To board the struggle bus: no whining, board with a smile, a fake one will be found out and put off at next stop, no maps, no directions, going only one way, one destination. Follow all rules and you will arrive. Drop off at pearly gate. Bring nothing.

Jayne

#20
October 23, 2016, 03:37:18 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 12:50:26 PM
I'd LOVE to learn Italian, and I suppose it should be easy after Latin, but I just don't have to time!

I did a semester of Italian after already knowing Latin (and French) and it was clearly far easier for me than my classmates. 

Dorothy L. Sayers, who began her study of Latin at around six years old, learned Italian in order to do her translation of Dante.  It only took her a few months.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.

Heinrich

#21
October 23, 2016, 03:42:47 PM
Grüße aus Kolorado.
Schaff Recht mir Gott und führe meine Sache gegen ein unheiliges Volk . . .   .                          
Lex Orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.
"Die Welt sucht nach Ehre, Ansehen, Reichtum, Vergnügen; die Heiligen aber suchen Demütigung, Verachtung, Armut, Abtötung und Buße." --Ausschnitt von der Geschichte des Lebens St. Bennos.

Heinrich

#22
October 23, 2016, 03:45:36 PM
Quote from: Stella Maris on October 23, 2016, 11:41:33 AM
Quote from: zork on October 23, 2016, 11:28:28 AM
Herzlich willkommen!

Wrong language, zork!  ;)

His grammar is off, too. Sounds choppy when wrong.
Schaff Recht mir Gott und führe meine Sache gegen ein unheiliges Volk . . .   .                          
Lex Orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.
"Die Welt sucht nach Ehre, Ansehen, Reichtum, Vergnügen; die Heiligen aber suchen Demütigung, Verachtung, Armut, Abtötung und Buße." --Ausschnitt von der Geschichte des Lebens St. Bennos.

ABlaine

#23
October 23, 2016, 04:34:37 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on October 23, 2016, 12:10:49 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 05:50:41 AM
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Welcome, where do you go to Mass? I was going to St Eugene weekly when I was in France two years ago.

Saint-Nicholas-du-Chardonnet

It isn't the prettiest church in the city (still magnitudes better than mine in Philly) but it is packed every Sunday. The history of SSPX here is really quite crazy: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_de_Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet

MilesChristi

#24
October 23, 2016, 04:36:55 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 04:34:37 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on October 23, 2016, 12:10:49 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 05:50:41 AM
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Welcome, where do you go to Mass? I was going to St Eugene weekly when I was in France two years ago.

Saint-Nicholas-du-Chardonnet

It isn't the prettiest church in the city (still magnitudes better than mine in Philly) but it is packed every Sunday. The history of SSPX here is really quite crazy: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_de_Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet

I know it well, went there for Vespers every once in a while
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

zork

#25
October 23, 2016, 05:46:57 PM Last Edit: October 23, 2016, 06:11:53 PM by zork
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

Cesar_Augustus

#26
October 23, 2016, 08:42:54 PM
Welcome!

SamVanHouten

#27
October 24, 2016, 08:44:57 PM
Bienvenue à notre website et que Dieu te bénisse!

PerEvangelicaDicta

#28
October 29, 2016, 01:09:32 PM
ABlaine, you're a sort of Renaissance woman.

Long overdue welcome, friend.
They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be filled
Psalms 36:19

ABlaine

#29
October 30, 2016, 12:21:43 PM
Quote from: Jayne on October 23, 2016, 03:37:18 PM
Quote from: ABlaine on October 23, 2016, 12:50:26 PM
I'd LOVE to learn Italian, and I suppose it should be easy after Latin, but I just don't have to time!

I did a semester of Italian after already knowing Latin (and French) and it was clearly far easier for me than my classmates. 

Dorothy L. Sayers, who began her study of Latin at around six years old, learned Italian in order to do her translation of Dante.  It only took her a few months.

Wow just a few months? That's incredible. Maybe I'll have to give that a shot one day (if my schedule ever settles down!).

Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on October 29, 2016, 01:09:32 PM
ABlaine, you're a sort of Renaissance woman.

Long overdue welcome, friend.

Thanks a lot for the welcome and the kind words! However, I am a man not a woman!
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