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hashish (GS, vol. 6, p. 564; in English in Sw, vol. 2, p. 88). See also 12,6; 12a,l;
R2a,3; and GO,S.
6. "Far-off times and places" translates Liinder- und ZeitenfirnenJ which could be rendered
more literally as "geographic and temporal distances." At issue is a spatiotemporal
"superposition" (MIa,l).
7. Marcel Proust, Remembrance rfThings Past, vol. 1, tTans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New
York: Random House, 1925), p. 137.
8. Viiyage aulour de ma chambre (Voyage around My Room) : title of a work published in
1794 by Xavier de Maistre, brother ofJoseph. The work describes experiences undergone
during a period of imprisonment when, as a soldier in the Piedmontese army,
the author was being held in Turin and had to find compensation in mental traveling.
9. This citation could not be verified. [R.T.]
10. Hugo, Les Mlserables, p. 374.
11. The Directory: executive body in charge of the French government from 1795 to
1799. Les lncroyables (the Incredibles) : name given to a group of young men at this
time who affected a studied elegance in their dress and speech.
12. "Des Schmetterlings zweifehlder Hugel." See J. C. F. Schiller, Slimtliclle Weeke (Munich,
1965), vol. 1, p. 229: "mit zweifelndem Hugel / Wiegt der Schmetterling sich
tiber dem rotlichen Klee:' See also Benjamin's notes on his first and second hashish
experiences, in GS, va!. 6, pp. 560, 562. [R.T.]
13. Volumes 11-15 of Hoffmaml's Ausgewlihllen Schrijlen appeared in 1839, published by
Brodhag Verlag in Stuttgart. The following citation from Julius Eduard Hitzig appears
in vol. 15, pp. 32-34. [R.T]
14. 17ze Letters o/ Charles Dickens, ed. Katl11een Tillotson, vol. 4 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1977), pp. 612-613 (August 30, 1846, toJohn Forster).
15. Friedrich Engels, 17ze Condition q/ the Working Class in England, trans. Borence
Wisclmewetzky (1886; rpt., with revisions by v: G. Kierran, London: Penguin,
1987), pp. 68-69.
16. More exactly, 1857. See M7,9. [RoT]
17. Prior to 1859, in the years when Paris comprised only twelve municipal wards, "the
thirteenth arrondissement" was a name for illicit amours. [J.L.]
18. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, in Collected Works, vol. 5 (New
York: International Publishers, 1976), p. 64 (trans. Clemens Dutt) .
19. Original title: "Exk.urs tiber die Soziologie der Sinne:' Translated by Robert E. Park
and Ernest W. Burgess, in Introduction to the Science 0/ Sodolo!!J) 2nd ed, (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1970); see p. 150.
20. Hugo, Les Miserables, p. 514. See also 04,3.
21. Baudelaire, Paris Spleen) trans. Louise Varese (New York: New Directions, 1947),
p. 45.
22, Baudelaire, Artificial Paradise) trans. Ellen Fox (New York: Herder and Herdel; 1971),
pp. 101-102.
23. Balzac, Seraplcita, trans. Clara Bell (New York: Hippocrene, 1989), p. 6.
24. Balzac, Cousin Pons, trans. Herbert]. Hunt (London: Penguin, 1968), p. 132.
25, Baudelaire, The Prose Poems and (La Farlo/J trans. Rosemary Lloyd (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 44 ("The Crowds").
26. Baudelaire, Paris Spleen} pp. ix-x,
27. Ibid., p. 77.
28. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens (1906: rpt. New York: Schocken, 1965), pp. 44-45.
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