The Arcades Project - Operi

first, vegetable kingdom next, mineral ldngdom last. He is guided by the order of
life. The poet will say: mineral kingdom first, vegetable kingdom after that, and
animal kingdom last. He will be guided by tbe order of beauty." [J90,4]
Apropos of " L'Horloge," Crepet (Conard, p. 450): '"A correspondent for L'Intermediaire
des chercheurs et curieux ,
M. Cb. Ad. C. (September 30, 1905), reported tbat Baudelaire had removed
the hands from his clock and written on the face: 'It's later than you think!'"
[J90a,l]
On novelty and the familiar: "One of my dreams was the synthesis . .. of a certain
seagirt place and its medieval past. . . . This dream in which . . . the sea had
turned gothic, this dream in which . .. I believed that I was attaining to the impossible-it
seemed to me that I had often dreamed it before. But as it is the property
of what we imagine in our sleep to multiply itself in the past, and to appear, even
when novel, familiar, I supposed that I was mistaken." Marcel Proust, La Cote de
Guermantes (Paris, 1920), vol. 1, p. 131.491 [J90a,2]
A rigorously Baudelairean reminiscence in Proust, to which, above all, the com­
ments on Meryon