Antibes may give the impression of spiritual indifference and lukewarm religiosity, but maybe we were looking in the wrong places. There is one enduring cult, and that is football. The two almost local teams which seem to collect the most devotions from the faithful are AC Monaco and OM Marseilles. The first wears red and white strip, the second blue and white.
The rituals of these cults take place in giant stadia, with television providing the usual miracle of ubiquity for those unable to make the pilgrimage to the mysteries. But what replaces the sacrificial feasts? I found out today at the pasta shop. 'Farfalle' in the teams' colours, with the national team there as a back up. I wonder what spiritual (trinitarian?) vibrations the tricolour pasta has, as it simmers and boils, and what miracle of transubstantiation takes place, once combined with parmesan or pecorino?
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