Tuesday, January 31, 2006

What's a mazarin?

I'm at the cozy and (previously) sunny Café Le Moderne, getting done with a productive afternoon. There was a guy who came in and talked quite loudly to the guy behind the bar (the bartender obviously knew the guy), then left, but not without trying to shake people's hands on the way out, and stood at the door saying something about l'amour and la beauté, aimed evidently at the bunch of us sitting on this side of the establishment, most of whom are young women. I didn't look up from my computer, and he said, I think to me, "Tu semble un mazarin," before the bartender ushered him out. I seem like a mazarin? What's a mazarin? There's Cardinal Mazarin, who was Louis XIV's regent (good thing I've been reading about Charles II, who was Louis XIV's cousin!). But what's a mazarin?

UPDATE: No one seems to know what a mazarin is (other than a tasty dessert). It's entirely possible I misheard, and thought it was "mazarin" because I had been reading about Cardinal Mazarin. I wonder what it was. Of course, the guy was crazy, so maybe he did compare me to a tasty dessert.

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