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| Une salle de lecture — espace aménagé dans une bibliothèque... // A reading room — space in a library... |
Today’s prompt is “newspaper”, journal.
One of the few things which were permitted during the strictest stage of the quarantine was to buy newspapers and magazines. While the whole concept of printed news seems pretty obsolete, people do buy papers here. Admittedly, it’s mostly older generation that does that. But newspapers have one undeniable advantage over mobile devices — you can hide behind them with ease. Also, at the times when putting all sorts of barriers between yourself and the others is all the rage, they serve as ones, cheap, disposable, and non-plastic.
In our favourite library (still, closed, alas, and it is not clear at all when it will open), almost the whole of the ground floor is dedicated to periodicals. Before the quarantine started, the chairs were facing each other; after the quarantine there will be re-arrangements, I imagine.
In other news — nothing much. Delicatessen stores are opening; some only for a few hours per day. We run out of rooibos tea and today’s mission is to go buy it. It still feels a bit like a military sortie, but we figure that if stores are allowed to open, customers should be able to get there somehow.
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