After my classes in the morning, I went across the street to get a library card at the city library. I discovered that they do not give cards. Not to anyone. Instead, they use a system that brought back childhood memories. It’s entirely on paper! Once you enroll, you can check something out simply by presenting it to a librarian and telling him or her your name. What you check out is recorded by hand.<\/p>\n
The library has materials primarily in French or in German, although they do have some in Luxembourgish, in Portuguese, and in English. I checked out what I hope is a detective book for school children (the kind that is supposed to make learning fun). I also checked out 1001 secrets de la langue fran\u00e7aise.\u00a0Pour apprivoiser ces affreux participes pass\u00e9s, pluriels malicieux, et petites liaisons farceuses. \u00a0<\/em>I suspect that my French is nowhere near sophisticated enough to understand the book, but I couldn’t resist. Their collection of DVDs is rather small. Now that Netflix is coming to Luxembourg, that’s probably a good thing. Most of the movies they had were connected to WWII. I did find one that wasn’t:\u00a0Luxembourg, USA<\/a>, which I checked out.<\/p>\n In the same building as the library (the Aalt Stadhaus<\/a>) is the\u00a0Brasserie \u00abLa Tartini\u00e8re\u00bb, which has outside seating. Even though I’ve been here for almost a month, this is the first time I’ve had a coffee outside. It’s not that there haven’t been opportunities. There are cafes and brasseries with outdoor seating all over Differdange, Luxembourg City, and every other place I’ve visited. Most of the cafes that I’ve seen, however, are on relatively busy streets, and the thought of sitting outside with traffic so close does not appeal to me. This caf\u00e9 is on a not-so-busy street, and is on a patio high above the road.<\/p>\n Suitably caffeinated, I went\u00a0to my office to find more quotations from Nietzsche about Nice, where I will be going with one of my classes next week (Friday-Tuesday). I made two happy discoveries. First, Nietzsche attended several concerts in Monaco, so now we can add that to our itinerary. Second, I had not been able to locate one of the boarding houses where Nietzsche lived in Nice. I couldn’t even find the street, either in person or online. Finally today I came across a letter that Nietzsche wrote while staying at this house. In a postscript, he tells his friend that the street has been renamed! Yea! I’ll be interested to see if that house is still there now that I know what street it’s on. It will still require some sleuthing since Nietzsche never recorded the house number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After my classes in the morning, I went across the street to get a library card at the city library. I discovered that they do not give cards. Not to anyone. Instead, they use a system that brought back childhood memories. It’s entirely on paper! Once you enroll, you can check something out simply by … Continue reading 19 September<\/span>