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forms an obstacle in its path. His nonchalance would therefore be nothing other
than an unconscious protest against the tempo of the production process. (Compare
D2a,1.) [J60a,6]
Fog appears as a consolation of the solitary man. It fills the abyss surrounding
him. [J60a,7]
Baudelaire's candidacy for the Academie was a sociological experiment. [J6I,I]
Series of types-from the national guardsman Mayeux, through Gavroche, to
the ragpicker, to Vr reloque, to Ratapoil."9 [J6I,2]
Baudelaire's allegorical mode of vision was not understood by any of his contemporaries
and was thus, in the end, completely overlooked. [J6I,3]
Surprising proclamations and mystery-mongering, sudden attacks and impene­
trable irony, belong to the raiJon d'etat of the Second Empire and were charac­
teristic of Napoleon III. They are no less characteristic of the theoretical writings
of Baudelaire. [J6I,4]
The cosmic shudder in Victor Hugo has little in common with the naked terror
that seized Baudelaire in his spleen. Hugo felt perfectly at home in the world of
the spirits. It is the complement of his domestic existence, which was itself not
without horror. [J6I,5]
The veiled import of the first section of "Chant d'automne": the season is named
only in the tiny phrase "autumn is here!""9 and the following line says that, for
the poet, it has no other meaning than as a foreboding of death. To him, it has
brought no harvest. [J6I,6]
In the guise of a beggar, Baudelaire continually put the model of bourgeois
society to the test. His willfully induced, if not deliberately maintained, depend­
ence on his mother not only has a psychoanalytically identifiable cause; it also
has a social cause. [J 61,7]
The labyrinth is the right path for him who always arrives early enough at his
destination. For the fl:'i.neur, this destination is the marketplace. [J6I,S]
The path of one who shrinks from arriving at his goal will easily take the form of
a labyrinth. [For the fl:'i.neur, this goal is the marketplace.] The same holds for the
social class that does not want to know where it is heading. Moreover, nothing
prevents it from reveling in this roundahout way and hence substituting the
shudder of pleasure for the shudder of death. This was the case for the society of
the Second Empire. [J6I,9]