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I guess in the new cultural history they would call them,
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these buildings upon which
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or these monuments that he looked down and hated.
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If you've read Balzac's Old Goriot ever
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in your reading career, at the very end of
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the story Rastignac is up at Père Lachaise Cemetery,
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and he--and poor--Père Lachaise is not poor,
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but the area around it is
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and he gestures down to western Paris,
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the fancy Paris,
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and he says the equivalent of,
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"It's war between you and me now, baby."