I appreciate how Maclure takes time to explore how historic QC's culture & traditions are - in some ways strengthening it & other ways making it irrelevant.

QC's culture has evolved into something so complicated, & distinct that it can belong no where but within the province.

In one view, QC is like a cornered dog. It doesn't want to bite its master. But more than that, it doesn't want to die.

Having very interesting discussions with hubby.

"With this inferiority complex ever more firmly embedded in the psyche of the Québécois, our society was claimed to be existing in a state of perpetual and progressive decrepitude, and Canadian colonialism, in the words of D'Allemagne, was "A neverending genocide."" Pg 33.

This book appreciates all the fine & simple things that contribute to a person's soul & heart.

"What is the good of struggling to preserve and promote a culture if you are unable to say what makes it special and original?"

Finally someone has summed up the sense of loss lingering over Quebecois culture.