Paris Métro

ricin also nefariously has no known antidote so this made ultimately markov the first known death via ricin in great britain now we kind of got to the bottom of it and word spreads of markov's death and the news reaches another exiled bulgarian named vladimir kostov Kostov had a similar experience.

He was leaving the Paris Metro with his wife when he felt a sudden sharp pain in his back.

Subsequently, he did in fact have a high fever for three days, but ultimately he recovered.

So after learning about what happened to Markov, Kostov then decides to go get his back x-rayed.

I'm going to say it's like...

It's called the Paris Metro.

Yeah.

Nice.

Unconcentrated.

and concentrated so that, and I always said that you can see this on the RER, the underground system in Paris that goes out to the banlieue as opposed to the Paris metro.

I've always thought that it's a sort of metaphor for France that on the top level you have, you know, Paris and you have the Louvre and you have all these glorious buildings and the great culture of one of the great civilizations of the world.

You go down, you've got the Paris Metro.

And that's mainly Parisians, recognizably Parisian, going about their business.

You go to the RER, the line beneath that that goes out wider.

And here the examples would be national memory, patriotic memory, The most important example is always the victories of Napoleon.

If you want to look at the victories of Napoleon, you go into the Paris Metro and you find two stations that are called Jena and the other one is Austerlitz.

But you will never find in the Paris Metro station one that is called Waterloo.

Therefore, you have to go to London.

what I mean by forgetting or leaving out or using this dividing line to what is not excluded.

So the vibe of my land is like a modern London slash Paris, but with many more sharp edges, many sharp corners, like evil faces that you can like see in the buildings if you're kind of like looking correctly inside.

Like think about those, the Paris Metro with like the red bulbs that look like eyeballs kind of staring down at you.

Just kind of like you can see grimaces everywhere you look.

Gargoyles on the tops of the buildings.

And the kids are in many cases subjected to these crazy commutes.

If you've ever had to deal with a Paris Metro, they are regularly canceling big lines.

And sometimes it can be a delay of one to two hours.

If you live one to two hours away, you're missing half the day.

Yep.

With many of the trains, all the trains there, definitely, we can get into this more in a few minutes, but like the Metro, like, You better know what you're doing.

Yeah, well, I was going to say, you know, once we got to Disneyland, from there on, go back to the last episode, because that was all about Disneyland.

But then on Sunday, we went back to Paris.

We did.

And that's where we encountered the Metro.

The Metro

and...

And this was someplace that I really wanted to get to because I'd never been to Bordeaux, for instance, which is the biggest city in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

So we went to Paris, took the train from Cannes to the Gare du Nord, as I recall, and then went across town on the Metro.

The one thing I have to say about the Metro is you want to pack light because if you're on the Paris Metro, you're going to be going up and down stairs with your suitcase.

Not a lot of escalators or elevators there, so just something to be aware of.

I think at one point we were going to take a van across town, but the Pope was in town, so that didn't work out that well.