![]() If Gorce is following any path, it resembles Hemingway’s more than Child’s. Instead of finding herself in Paris, she gets progressively more lost throughout the course of the book. Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce represents the antitype to Julia Child and Ernest Hemingway. ![]() ![]() It was stumbling mistakenly along the dark and forbidding Avenue d’Iéna while she was looking for the glitzy and golden Champs-Élysées, that first gave Elaine Dundy the inspiration for her comic novel The Dud Avocado (1958), about a heroine prone to such misapprehensions. I have google maps to sort me out of course, but is that necessarily for the good? Wandering about lost can be much funnier than sticking to the proper path. ![]() Sometimes I get turned around by one too many adventurous forays from a main avenue, and wind up pointed in the wrong direction. It’s easy to get lost in Paris, despite Baron Haussmann’s best efforts to impose order on the city’s street plan. ![]()
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