Global Eyes

Most of what you need to know to be a reasonably-informed person.

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This Global Eyes will be comparatively brief because I had to write off yesterday and most of today (and formally declare them “Admin days”) because I’ve been engaged in the kind of quest Captain Ahab would recognize to persuade the organs of the French bureaucracy of this fact: J. Claire Berlinski and Claire J. Berlinski are one and the same woman.

I’ve explained now until tears rolled down my cheeks that no, there are not two Berlinski women, sharing the same date of birth and the same apartment, both of them missing a critical year in their tax files, but one, and were you to merge them, voilà!—a single, dutiful, filer of the paperwork, nay, a perfect one!—would emerge. There she is: Exactly the kind of woman one would like to allow to continue to live in France!