An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris Condition:Very Good As she steps back from

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TERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITY: AN INTRODUCTION

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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris Condition:Very Good As she steps back fromOne overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non event, the everyday "what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving school cars caught in their routes;