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little scraps of men-that is, to budding Satans." "De l'Essence du rire," Oeuvres,
cd. Le Dantec, vol. 2, p. 174. 1411 [J3!,S]
Christ knew anger, and also tears; he did not laugh. Vrrginie would not laugh at
the sight of a caricature. "The sage does not laugh, nor does irrnocence. ""The
comic element is a danmable thing, and one of diabolical origin." "De I'Essence
du rire;' Oeuvres, ed. Le Dantec, vol. 2, p. 168.'.'11 [J3!a,!]
Baudelaire distinguishes the "significative comic" from the "absolute comic!' The
latter alone is a proper object of reflection: the grotesque. ISO [J3Ia,2]
Allegorical interpretation of modern clothing for men, in the (,Salon de 1846": A8
for the garb, the outer husk, of the modern hero, . .. is it not the necessary garb of
our suffering age, which wears the symbol of perpetual mourning even on its thin
black shoulders? Notice how the black suit and the frock coat possess not only
their political beauty, which is an expression of universal equality, but also their
poetic beauty, which is an expression of the public soul-an endless procession of
hired mourners, political mourners, amorous mourners, bourgeois mourners. We
are all of us celebrating some funeraL" Oeuvres, ed. Le Dantec, vol. 2, p. 134. 151
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The incomparable force of Poe's description of the crowd. One thinks of early
lithographs by Senefelder, like "Der Spielclub"