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Posted on: Wed, 01/03/2007 - 15:05
Chànna
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'Transport Amoureux' section in Libération
OK, it's not really about 'sex' as such, but maybe 'the promise of sex', perhaps..
One of my favourite parts of Libération newspaper is that small section near the back with all the classifieds called 'Transport Amoureux' (which I've never seen in any newspaper anywhere in the world, but then we are in France after all..). People post messages in the vain hope of finding someone they've fancied on any public transport, usually who they've exchanged a few words with, or a smile, or even just a look. It's a great and often funny way of brightening up your day, or reading to your friends in the pub.. Someone ought to make a film about it..
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There are also sections like this in one or two of the free daily London papers - but of course in London, unlike Paris, it's not romantic, it's just about wanting to shag someone.
Yes, it's fascinating. Has there ever been any feedback? It would be very interesting to know how well it works. Is everybody supposed to buy Libé the day after he/she thinks he/she has been surreptitiously glanced at in the metro?
By the way, the page has been used to swap coded messages between the police and a self-styled terrorist group in 2004 ("Suzy and Gros loup" if you remember).
I had never heard about the Suzy & Gros Loup story - sounds fascinating, and further fuels my contention that someone should write a script based on it..
Another thing: would you recognise yourself if you were the object of desire? Not sure I would...
Not easy to know if you are the object of someone's desire. If the wooer would go straight to the point, no need for the Libé ad and if he/she's too shy, you'll never know that you must buy the paper. The page is definitely for the romantic minded. It must be of very little practical use but it surely makes the readers dream about melodramatic stories and hope for happy endings, unlikely though they may be. It is a space for a bit of daily rêverie. The practical minded of today would rather discreetly take a picture of their object of desire with their cellphone camera and post it with a message over the Internet. Gloomy!
Chànna, why don't you have a go at a script yourself?
I wish I were that talented, Jay, to write the script..
I was definitely addicted to craigslist's missed connections when I lived in New York. The Paris ones aren't as plentiful, but they are still exciting...
http://paris.craigslist.org/mis/
Addicted to the missed connections? Are you one yourself?
i allowed myself to live vicariously through the torrid non affairs of others.
In the same vein, check this website.
http://www.paribulle.com/
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