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with reference to dle fourth-century B.C. Greek painter who, in a contest, divided a
narrow line by one yet narrower and of a different color.
22. This phrase (literally, "to go to the many") means "to die." It occurs, for exarrlple, in
Petronius: "And now he's gone, joined the great majority" (Tamen abiit ad plures). The
Satyricon, trans. Wi lliam Arrowsmith (New York: New American Library, 1959),
p. 50 (ch. 42). (Thanks to William Wyatt for this reference.)
23. Valery, LeonardoJ Poe} Mallarme) p. 197.
24. G. G.Jung, "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry;' inJung, Complete
Works (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970-1992), vol. 15, pp. 82-83 (trans.
R. F. C. Hull) .
25. C. G.Jung, "The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man;' inJung, Modem Man in Search
of a Soul, trans. W S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934),
p. 237.
26. Blanqui's last work is L'Eterniti fJat" les astres; see D5a,l, and the entries following.
Heidegger's outline of a Problemgeschidlle ("history of problems") in Being and Time)
paragraph 3, may stand behind Benjamin's reference to the philosopher here.
27. See Belamin, GS, vol. 2, p. 578. [R.T.]
28. See August Strindberg, 10 Damascus III, in Plays of COl/fission and Therapy, trans.
WalterJohnson (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979), p. 196.
29. Marx and Engels, Selected COlTespondence, p. 434 (Engels to Mehring,July 14, 1893).
30. Turgot, "Second Discourse on dIe Successive Advances of the Human Mind;' in On
Progress) Sociology and i!,conomics) trans. Ronald L. Meek (London: Cambridge University
Press, 1973), p. 46.
31. Ibid., pp. 44, 46.
32. Ibid., p. 58. Benjamin has "perfection" for "reflection." Limes is Latin for "boundary,"
"limit."
33. Ibid., p. 52.
34. Ibid., p. 105.
35. The Lifo and Writings ofTurgot, cd. W Walker Stephens (London: Longrnans, Green,
1895), p. 320.
36. Hennarm Lotze, MicrocOSJJllls) trans. Elizabeth Hamilton and E. E. Constance Jones
(New York: Scribner and Welford, 1888), vol. 2, p. 144.
37. Ibid., p. 146.
38. Friedrich Holderlin, SiillltlicilC Werke (Stuttgart, 1954), vol. 6, p. 92 Oetter of September
1793, to his brother). [R.T.]
39. Lotze, Microcosmus) vol. 2, p. 172.
40. Ibid., p. 171.
41. Ibid., pp. 173-174.
42. Simmel, The PhilosojJ/i)' qf Money) 2nd ed., trans. To m Bottomore and David Frisby
(New York: Routledge, 1990), p. 447.
t13. Lotze, MicroCOJJJlUs) vol. 2, p. 147.
44. Ibid., p. 148.
45. Ibid., pp. 151-152.
46. Ibid., p. 154.
47. Ibid., p. 157.
48. Baudelaire, liThe Poem of Hashish," in "My Heart Laid Bare " and Other Prose Wn'tings,
trans. Norman Cameron (1950; rpt. Haskell House, 1975), p. 102. Baudelaire
claims here to be citing verbatim the letter of an uilllamed woman.
49. The Letters o/ Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 24.