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The Sky is Red at Bordeaux: Photographs
by Natalia Sarkissian
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At sunset, the sky shines red over Bordeaux, the city and its châteaux.
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In the afternoon, the sun gleams golden.
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Planes fill with wine-drenched tourists from Japan and China—just off the bus from château-touring and Bordeaux-tasting, on their way home via Paris. The cabin fills with their boozy breath. They snooze and dream of arrivals and beginnings and tastings, not of endings and leaving. Their heads bob gently, right, left, then against their headrests as the plane flies off.
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