When, in response to the World Trade Center atrocity, the U.S.A. attacked terrorist positions in Afghanistan, artists, intellectuals and activists from all over Paris rose against it in a defiant chorus of café chatter. One morning, while walking along the Left Bank, I discovered an auburn-haired young man wearing very cheap clothes and carrying a very expensive camera. He was posting obscene anti-American handbills and photographing his accomplishments. One of his proclamations, showing the Statue of Liberty (but probably too small to see clearly on a computer screen), is in the lower left of the shuttered patisserie in this picture. I let the poster boy finish his work, then, like the birds who consumed the breadcrumb trail of Hansel and Gretel, I followed him along the street, ripping down the handbills.