Mini Stallion%2c Paris The Muse ((top)) -

She would sit in the Café de Flore, not sipping an espresso to be seen, but drinking a glass of whole milk, tapping her spoon against the saucer in complex rhythms. "The city is a record," she said once to a confused American tourist. "Most people just stand on the vinyl. I am the needle. If I don't scratch, the music doesn't play."