Année : 2004

I’m working on a screenplay and I want one of the characters (male) to own a motorcycle. It needs to be very cool, pretty powerful, and quite expensive. The kind of stuff that a hip new millionaire would buy for himself if he didn’t want to look too macho or too « new money », but still cared to make a statement.

Does anybody have an idea what motorcycle this guy could own? (He’s a hip computer nerd…) Ideally this would be a vintage bike, but if you have any other suggestion, let me know. One more detail: This has to be a model that existed in the year 2000 or before.

Sur la route, dimanche, en revenant d�une fin de semaine pass�e en famille, � manger, boire, rire, jouer, faire du cano� et regarder le temps passer assis au bord de la rivi�re, j�ai �t� envahie d�un sentiment de tristesse � l�id�e que cette rencontre annuelle �tait d�j� termin�e. Je me suis rappel� ces longues minutes en auto, quand, enfant, ma famille revenait d�une activit� qui m�avait beaucoup plu et que je regardais la route d�filer sous mes yeux sans vraiment la voir. La fin de semaine �tait finie, j�avais compl�tement d�croch� du quotidien et le retour � la r�alit� se faisant de plus en plus lourd � chaque kilom�tre parcouru.

Il y avait longtemps, il me semble, que je n�avais pas ressenti ce type de nostalgie si rapproch�e, dans le temps, de l’�v�nement qui la g�n�re.

We generally accept that young people are more vulnerable to suffering at the hands of love. The prevailing wisdom is that you don’t feel things as acutely as you get older, which, like so many nuggets of prevailing wisdom, is true — except when it’s not.

From Salon.