Alexandra Giroux

When I was young, I used to play “Theme Park”. It was a wonderful game! I used to spend many hours on my computer, just to build an amusement park! And that’s fantastic because every April, my dream came true thanks to the fun fair and to its numerous arenas. What a pleasure to walk among the roaring machines on Friday evenings with Jesus! The smells of fat embalmed us, while we tried to steal. Such colours! Such lights! It is difficult not to get lost…
We arrive in front of the roller coasters. Cars rise, under the added sound effects. The people in the air are really taken for idiots… At the top, someone shouts to them: “be careful, you’re going to come down!” OK, it is only an arena for children… But the decoration may confuse you… Why do these women dressed in metal show their bosoms? When perversity is not for the meeting, sadism is! “Drive youth!” Go, kill yourselves! They are nice bumping-cars, which allows us to get wild.
We do not get on carousels or anything at the moment, but it is very funny to watch people winning… or losing. Prizes are interesting… These watches, for example… It is impossible to win them. Why? We can see that they are old, their hands do not move any more! They might have been there for several years. But the funniest is really this game where we pull a thread to win a teddy bear. The small bears are hidden behind a big one! And only the big one is attached! We can always hope to win an enormous “doudou!” The stand assures us that “it is forbidden to lose.” We indeed want to believe it but if it is to win a ridiculous teddy bear…
The fair is better than the zoo. We see the gorilla of the ghost train. What an enjoyment when he waves at us! There are also these goldfish which we can win… At least one thousand piled up in an aquarium… What has Greenpeace done for them? Do you want to win them? It is quite simple… You take this rifle and you explode balloons. Promised, they are not loaded. And if you burst them all, you win firecrackers to continue to make noise in your house.
The fair pleases brutes and sweeties. Brutes play the very violent games, sweeties win such sweet presents. But we only play when there is a lot of noise. That allows us to forget everyday life. And later, there’s nothing like a small duckling of coca. Strange… celebrating = pleasure, celebrating = coca, so coca = pleasure. Advertisement is as simple as mathematics. Speaking about science, the new technologies allow wonderful things: by putting your hand on a machine, you can know if you are one: superman, a nymphomaniac, sexy, hard, a rabbit, conceited, deceived or a virgin. How have we managed to live without this?
After so much emotion, people often decide to eat ice-cream. But they do not know about their industrial making… Nothing is worth the goodies of the place Stanislas: good, handmade, and according to the manager, even rolled under armpits. But we do not fall into that trap. We go to the big wheel, which reconciles the followers of the good old days and those of modernity. All these lights are so beautiful! Not those of Nancy, those in the sky…