Pirate's Alley, The Faulkner House, Hearn, and Some Perfume

Just off Jackson Square (about which, a later post), between the Cathedral and the Presbytere, is Pirate's Alley. Amble along, admire the enclosed courtyard on the right and 19th century architecture on the left, but take care lest you miss:

Faulkner House, where the laureate wrote "Soldier's Pay", in 1925. The ground floor is a delightful bookseller's named, appropriately, Faulkner House Books. Now, if you desire a volume by a local writer- Anne Rice, for instance, or Anne Rampling, as you may know her- or a work about New Orleans, you are likely to discover on the well-stocked shelves of this shop the title you seek, new, used, out-of-print, or, for the collector, even a rare first edition. The proprietor directed me directly to his little collection of Hearnian titles (or is it Hearniania?)- the former may be considered the less objectionable- whereupon I immediately selected:

By the by, a better photo of the plaque and sign, taken on a different phone

It was whilst concluding the purchase that the proprietor engaged me in a most surprising tete a tete about the J-Pop group Perfume. Electro World https://share.google/wSzFwbB195acoKroc To whit: The owner's 30-something son has been a fan of Perfume since their debut some 20 years ago, and the two attended a concert in Fukuoka a years ago. The son, who has never studied Japanese formally, was nevertheless able to communicate in basic Japanese during the trip thanks to what he's learned from Perfume's lyrics and communicating online with other fans. Pretty cool. And, the dad, who's around 60, says he's come to like their music, too. Pretty cool. As for Hearn's "La Cuisine Creole", that is a course unto itself.