October 28, 2010 Alysa Salzberg T.S. Elliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. But for me, the cruelest month is October. The autumn Parisian wind is a biting, nasty thing that sends icy draughts down your clothes no matter what you do. What’s worse, the French enthusiasm for Halloween is even colder. Halloween began as a Celtic holiday, but though the Gauls, ancestors of the modern-day…