Capriccio (1989)
“Me and a castle—we’d go together like Scotch and water, Fred and Ginger, Irene and Vernon. But I soon got used to grandeur, and in the end it was just another nine-to-five job. The castle is called Casa Loma, and it’s a spurious medieval affair on the banks of Walmer Road in Toronto. According to the tourist brochures, Major General Sir Henry M. Pellatt built the castle to entertain visiting royalty, but when the hordes of royal visitors fell off, it was turned over to the Kiwanis Club. They ru...n it as a tourist attraction to raise money for their service work, and I conducted tours to finance my education. Sic transit gloria mundi.
I came to Canada to study French at McGill University, since Montreal is the second largest French-speaking city in the world, and more accessible (i.e., cheaper) than Paris.
Before I decided to study French, I led a life of noisy desperation trying to get rich in Bangor, Maine. It wasn’t just greed, more like an adolescent daydream really. I blame it on De Maupassant’s short story, La Parure, in which the heroine feels she was born for “tous les luxes et toutes les délicatesses de la vie.”MoreLess
I came to Canada to study French at McGill University, since Montreal is the second largest French-speaking city in the world, and more accessible (i.e., cheaper) than Paris.
Before I decided to study French, I led a life of noisy desperation trying to get rich in Bangor, Maine. It wasn’t just greed, more like an adolescent daydream really. I blame it on De Maupassant’s short story, La Parure, in which the heroine feels she was born for “tous les luxes et toutes les délicatesses de la vie.”MoreLess
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