Ataraxia

  This is an interesting love story, which used to be weird, even forbidden one hundred years ago. Come to think of it, even today, this kind of thing and many others are unthinkable in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic State (a new horrible apparition), Brunei and many other places, where the Sharia dictates that infidelity is punished by stoning. In the past few days, many people have lost their heads, literally- in the Middle East and everybody talks with disgust and loathing of the Islamic State. However, an ally of the West gets away with murder. Saudi Arabia has beheaded 12 people recently for: hashish trafficking and…witchcraft. One was killed even if he had been declared mentally ill. Coming back from the desert to Paris, we have a love triangle, which turns into a square at times.  The heroine, Paula Tessier is 39 years old and loves a man close to her age- Roger Demarest. Alas, he is more than interested in young women, with whom we may say that he cheats on his partner. Phi...