Sublime

In my short experience of litter in the Lubéron, the French themselves were the most likely offenders, but no Frenchman would accept that. At any time of the year, but particularly in the summer, it was well known that foreigners of one stripe or another were responsible for causing most of the problems in life. The Belgians, so it was said, were

change how wine is moved

Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière,

who controls what’s left of our freshwater—locals who depend on it for survival, or corporations that sell it for profit—matters a great deal,

space of flows,”

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9