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ecause of the greedy Irony
which infiltrates my soul?
"L 'Heautontimoroumenos. " 29:; [J54a,3]
"La Beaute"29ti-entails petrifaction, but not the unrest on which the gaze of the
allegorist falls. [J54a,4]
On the fetish:
Precious minerals form her polished eyes,
and in her strange symbolic nature where
angel and sphinx unite, where diamond,
gold, and steel dissolve into one light,
shines forever, useless as a star,
the sterile woman's icy majesty.
"Avec ses vetements ... "297
For hours? Foreverl Into that splendid mane / let me braid rubies,
pearls to bind / you indissolubly to my desire." ('La Chevelure. ")29!l
[J54a,S]
ropes of
[J54a,6]
When he went to meet the consumptive Negress who lived in the city, Baudelaire
saw a much truer aspect of the French colonial empire than did Dumas when he
took a boat to Tunis on commission from Salvandy. [J54a,7]
Society of the Second Empire:
Victims in tears, the hangman glorified;
the banquet seasoned and festooned with blood:
the poison of power clogs the despot's veins,
and the people kiss the knout that scourges them.
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"'Le Voyage. 299
The clouds: '''Le Voyage," section 4,. stanza 3.
Autumnal motif: " L'Ennemi," 'L'Imprevu," 'Semper Eadem."
[J55,1]
[J55,2]
[J55,3]
Satan in 'Les Litanies de Satan": great king of subterranean things"-"'You
whose bright eye knows the deep arsenals I Where the huried race of metals slumbers.
"300 [J55AJ
Granier de Cassagnac's theory of the subhuman, with regard to "Abel et Cain."
[J55,5]
On the Christian determination of allegory: it has no place m the cycle
"Revolte:' [J55,6]
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