In a long poem titled for this city the line "There is no lily of the valley" is oriented vertically down the centre of the page. That poem prefaces with "H u s s s h" a pianississimo piece of music with the lyric "diminuendo". That poem is by Hope Mirrlees. After falling in love with a woman who introduces herself in the lobby of a circus by saying "I don't want to be here", a woman who runs a "pauper" salon for poets moves to this European city. This city is where the relationship of (*) Robin Vote and Nora Flood falls apart in Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. A novel set in this continental city ends with the thought "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." That thought belongs to the man who takes Charles Darnay's place at the guillotine, Sidney Carton. For 10 points name this French city, the partial setting Dicken
In a long poem titled for this city the line "There is no lily of the valley" is oriented vertically down the centre of the page. That poem prefaces with "H u s s s h" a pianississimo piece of music with the lyric "diminuendo". That poem is by Hope Mirrlees. After falling in love with a woman who introduces herself in the lobby of a circus by saying "I don't want to be here", a woman who runs a "pauper" salon for poets moves to this European city. This city is where the relationship of (*) Robin Vote and Nora Flood falls apart in Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. A novel set in this continental city ends with the thought "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." That thought belongs to the man who takes Charles Darnay's place at the guillotine, Sidney Carton. For 10 points name this French city, the partial setting Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
In a long poem titled for this city the line "There is no lily of the valley" is oriented vertically down the centre of the page.
Paris