Yes, that cover illustration does indeed look like the France of today--indistinguishable from North Africa. Tintin looks like he's trying to get out of there as quickly as possible, but where can he possibly go to escape from mongrelization?
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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That was a good series. In one, I remember he goes to the Belgian Congo.
Yes, that cover illustration does indeed look like the France of today--indistinguishable from North Africa. Tintin looks like he's trying to get out of there as quickly as possible, but where can he possibly go to escape from mongrelization?
All too true.
Perfect!
Very clever!
Isn't this comic banned in Europe?
Good fine, Admiral.
Isn't this comic banned in Europe?
Tintin in the Congo came close to it, but a Belgian court decided it was paternalistic, and thus okay.
Good to see Tintin keeping up with the times...
Tintin seems to be runnning away
Clever....
Marseille, probably? I recently had business at a small village at the Isère and even there the Arabs seem to have crept up to.
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