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The Arcades Project - Operi

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Couldn't one compare the social differentiation present in architecture (see<br />

Fournel's description of cafes in K6a,2; or front stairs versus back stairs) with the<br />

social differentiation at work in fashion? [K7a,1]<br />

On anthropological nihilism, compare N8a,1: Celine, Benn. [K7a,2]<br />

'"<strong>The</strong> fIfteenth century . . . was a time when corpses, skulls and skeletons were<br />

extravagantly popular. Painted, sculpted, written about and dramatically represented,<br />

the Danse Macabre was everywhere. To the fIfteenth-century artist, a good<br />

death-appeal was as sure a key to popularity as a good sex-appeal is at the present<br />

time." Aldous Huxley, Croisiere d'hiver: en Amerique centrale (Paris<br />

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