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The Exemplary Citizen Narrator is back in full swing in France. This is a disembodied voice which nevertheless speaks in the first person, though universalized and idealized, an impossible benchmark to which to compare your sorry self.

So over the autoroute a sign might read, "I use my turn-signal to change lanes." In the stores, I plant fruit trees in late winter! Etc.

But never is it louder than at the beginning of school semesters. Or, not having children, I may just notice it more then.