that nests in us forever allied with time and memory

here they stress functional french, that which is needed understand things drunkards yell at me from passing motorcycles, an announcement on a crackly loudspeaker in a noisy room, an eavesdropped conversation. for all this i turn to voltaire, at my tutor's advice, for such versatile quotes:

je vous trouve bien effronte d'oser me parler d'un dessein si temeraire
(i find you quite insolent to dare speak to me in such an audacious fashion)

in other french news, i explained to the francophone students business club that i would suggest they look at newspapers to find financial information such as commodity prices, currency rates of exchange, publicly traded company share prices, labor data... at first it seemed to me that my accent had mangled the message as they looked on inquisitively, but i was reassured when, upon looking at issues of the two major newspapers, i saw that there does not exist such a section...(let's not talk about clouds on a sunny day)