(Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall)The Evening and The Morning
It was almost 9 p.m. yesterday that I reached a postbox in front of a postal office, since I had been out to Tokyo.
At a supermarket, however, they were selling foods at reduced prices for customers who would rather come at this hour of a Sunday night or any night.
I got one at half a regular price and went back home in the coldness of the winter.
SECTION I: A French Movie
In the last Saturday night, I happened to see a French movie on a cable TV channel, though it was not a genre of works applicable to the commercial Golden Globe Awards.
A French movie director, enjoying a success in Paris, bought a big mansion in a local province. When he first visited the place with his crew, he found that it happened to be the one that had once impressed him so badly.
One day when the French film director was a child, namely before the First World War, his family was walking a long way to home trying to cut a corner by passing through woods which belonged to the mansion. But, they were caught by an ill-natured guard, with a big black dog, who especially intimidated his mother who actually fell into a faint immediately after the on-site tentative interrogation. Since then, she had a fear even seeing the big mansion from a distance, though friends of the boy’s family taught the guard a lesson later, for the boy’s father was a respectable teacher.
As the auteur recalled what had happened in those days, especially that his mother had died several years after the horrible incident around the mansion, he ran straight to an old door on a wall at the edge of the big garden through which his family had once trodden in misery passing the big yard of the mansion to their home.
In a burst of passion, the Parisian picked up a big stone to smash and destroy the rotten, wooden door. Then, beyond the broken door, the grown-up son saw his mother at a distance standing and smiling, still young but feeble as if decades ago.
Indeed, the French countryside looks rather brighter than forests in the north of the Rhine.
SECTION II: Patois
It is said that before the French Revolution, those who spoke or could speak the French Language accounted only 33% or one in three of all the French population.
(http://sng.edhs.ynu.ac.jp/lab/hasegawa/ynu/region.pdf )
This kind of language aspects of France might give a clue to an answer to one important issue: how the Roman troops influenced development of ancient France.
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In France and other Francophone countries, patois has been used to describe non-Parisian French and so-called regional languages such as Breton, Occitan, and Franco-Provençal, since 1643. The word assumes the view of such languages as being backward, countrified, and unlettered, thus is considered by speakers of those languages as offensive when used by outsiders. Jean Jaurès said "one names patois the language of a defeated nation"[3]. Speakers may use the term in a non-derogatory sense to refer familiarly to their own language (See also: Languages of France.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patois
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The fact that French people today use a Romance language but not a Germanic language means that there must have been a huge influx of people and an influence from the Roman Empire to the region now called France.
As some European descendants today living in South America rather preserve original European languages as they were common when their ancestors were living in Europe, the fall of the Roman Empire might be possibly further studied and elucidated with a focus on French languages including those patois.
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That is simply all for today.
(Anyway, day and night, people had better pray, say, in Paris, Washington D.C., or Tokyo, since the God does not sound like pleased at all, very recently. You do not have to shout "Go GM!" or apply for a job in the Obama Administration, but just pray.)
Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.