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I learned a new word today. Paspartou. Yes, I also thought this was Philleas Fog sidekick but it turn out it means something. I took a pic of mine to have it framed and the guy asked me if I wanted paspartou? It turns out to be the lining between the picture and the frame. What do you know? I felt so cool I haven´t stopped saying it all day.
-Hey look at that Sears publicity…well chosen paspartou.
-I loved the Mona Lisa in the Louvre but I would add a 5 cm paspartou to give it more presence.
All day I have been going over and over this word. Paspartou.
I haven´t much knack for the arts, though. Musically, although a musician myself, when it comes to dancing people think I am looking for my keys and you should try to see me at a museum. A few weeks back I visited the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Had I known then what a Paspartou was I could have entertained myself a little better. The fact being that you can only see so many figures of the virgin Mary holding Jesus. Movies? Hell I don´t know a thing about movies other than Clint Eastwood is looking increasingly like an Easter Island Statue and that DeNiro and Pacino have become two asslickers looking for a quick buck. The rest is Chinese to me. But chinese characters would look great with a 10cm malve Paspartou.
-Hey look at that Sears publicity…well chosen paspartou.
-I loved the Mona Lisa in the Louvre but I would add a 5 cm paspartou to give it more presence.
All day I have been going over and over this word. Paspartou.
I haven´t much knack for the arts, though. Musically, although a musician myself, when it comes to dancing people think I am looking for my keys and you should try to see me at a museum. A few weeks back I visited the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Had I known then what a Paspartou was I could have entertained myself a little better. The fact being that you can only see so many figures of the virgin Mary holding Jesus. Movies? Hell I don´t know a thing about movies other than Clint Eastwood is looking increasingly like an Easter Island Statue and that DeNiro and Pacino have become two asslickers looking for a quick buck. The rest is Chinese to me. But chinese characters would look great with a 10cm malve Paspartou.
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Yes, "passepartout" is one of those wonderfully evocative words in addition to sounding sort of cool... Don't know if you know this, but its literal meaning is something like "fits everywhere" or "you can pass everywhere". I didn't know it was also used in connection with picture frames... I just knew about passepartout travel documents (the kind that the UN gives you if you're stateless), and passepartout keys (like the one that will unlock every door in a building).
Clint Eastwood looking increasingly like a Moai?.... Hahaha, that's funny and very true! Perhaps your own passepartout is your power of observation...
More passapartouses....?? If I managed 40 years without one, I can manage the rest of my life with one only.
Hilarious read!
"Passepartout" as the name of Phileas Fogg's valet makes further sense thus, as he not only "goes everywhere" but was in addition "the frame/ cut-out " with(in) which the character of Philleas Fogg is contrasted. Nice.
As I started reading your post, I wondered about the accompanying picture... till I got to the end - not that Clint Eastwood is known for his emotionally expressive face or his dialogues even in his earlier films, but that is the most fitting (and imaginative) description I have come across!
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