Emily’s Reviews > The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 > Status Update

This second essay - Tom Narin's - is nowhere as incendiary as Angelo Quattrocchi's opener, but it's still good.

Cobblestones. The streets offer their skin of their stones. Cobblestones makes arcs which last seconds...then - barricades.

(AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

Revolutions are the ecstasy of history: the moment when social reality and social dream fuse (the act of love).

…The May revolution fought for the visible (bread) and the invisible (a new order).

(ACTUALLY CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS BOOK I AM NOT EMOTIONALLY EQUIPPED AUGHHHH)