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structing private residential dwellings all around the perimeter, so that these theaters can hardly become anything other than colossal containers, giant capsules for all sorts of things." Grenzboten, 1861, 2nd semester, vol. 3, p. 143 ("'Die Pariser Kunstausstellung von 1861"). [L2,5] Think of the arcade as watering place. What we would like is to stumble upon an arcade myth, with a legendary source at its center-an asphalt wellspring arising at the heart of Paris. The tavern advertising beer "on tap" still draws on this myth of the waters. And the extent to which healing is a rite de passage, a transition experience, becomes vividly clear in those classical corridors where the sick and ailing turn into their recovery, as it were. Those halls, too, are arcades.3 Conlpare fountains in the vestibule. [L2,6] The dread of doors that won't close is something everyone knows from dreams. Stated more precisely: these are doors that appear closed without being so. It was with heightened senses that I learned of this phenomenon in a dream in which, while I was in the company of a friend, a ghost appeared to me in the window of the ground floor of a house to our right. And as we walked on, the ghost accompanied us from inside all the houses. It passed through all the walls and always remained at the same height with us. I saw this, though I was blind. The path we travel through arcades is fundanlentally just such a ghost wall" on which doors give way and walls yield. [L2,7] The fignre of wax is properly the setting wherein the appearance of humanity outdoes itself. In the wax fignre, that is, the surface area, complexion, and coloration of the human being are all rendered with such perfect and unsurpassable exactitude that this reproduction of human appearance itself is outdone, and now the mmmequin incarnates nothing but the hideous, cumring mediation between costume and viscera. 0 Fashion 0 [L2a,1] Description of a wax museum as dream house: "Once visitors reached the fmal landing, they looked around the corner into a large, brightly lit room. There was, so to say, no one within, though it was filled with princes, crinolines, uniforms, and giants at the entrance. The woman went no further, and her escort paused beside her, piqued hy a haleful pleasure. They sat down on the steps, and he told her of the terror he had experienced as a hoy in reading ahout ill-famed castles where no one lived any longer, but where on stormy nights there were lights hurning at all the windows. What was going on inside? What gathering was there? Where was that light coming from? He had dreamed of catching a glimpse of t.his assembly while hanging from the window ledge, his face pressed against the windowpanes of the unspeakahle room." Ernst. Bloch, 44Leib und WachsHgur," Frankfurter Zeit {mg . [L2a,2] 44Numher 125: Castan's maze. At Hrst., world travelers and artists suppose themselves transported into the forest of columns that is the magnificent. mosque of Cordova in Spain. As arch succeeds arch in that edifice, one column crowds upon
the next in perspective, offering fabulous vistas and unthinkably long avenues which no one could follow to the end. Then, suddenly, we behold an image that takes us into the very heart of the famous Alhambra of Granada. We see the tapestry pattern of the Alhambra, with its inseription 'Allah is Allah' (God is great), and already we are standing in a garden, in the orange grove of the Alham bra. But before the visitor arrives at tlus courtyard, he must pass through a series of labyrinthine divagations." Catalogue of Castan's panopticon4 (from extracts in the Frankfu,rter Zeitung). [L2a,3] "The success of the Romantic school gave rise, around 1825, to the market in modern paintings . Before that, art lovers went to the homes of artists. Sellers of artists' pigments-Giroux, Suisse, Binant, Berville-began to function as middlemen. The first retail house was opencd by Goupil in 1829." Dubech and
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structing private residential dwellings all around the perimeter, so that these theaters<br />
can hardly become anything other than colossal containers, giant capsules for<br />
all sorts of things." Grenzboten, 1861, 2nd semester, vol. 3, p. 143 ("'Die Pariser<br />
Kunstausstellung von 1861"). [L2,5]<br />
Think of the arcade as watering place. What we would like is to stumble upon an<br />
arcade myth, with a legendary source at its center-an asphalt wellspring arising<br />
at the heart of Paris. <strong>The</strong> tavern advertising beer "on tap" still draws on this myth<br />
of the waters. And the extent to which healing is a rite de passage, a transition<br />
experience, becomes vividly clear in those classical corridors where the sick and<br />
ailing turn into their recovery, as it were. Those halls, too, are arcades.3 Conlpare<br />
fountains in the vestibule. [L2,6]<br />
<strong>The</strong> dread of doors that won't close is something everyone knows from dreams.<br />
Stated more precisely: these are doors that appear closed without being so. It was<br />
with heightened senses that I learned of this phenomenon in a dream in which,<br />
while I was in the company of a friend, a ghost appeared to me in the window of<br />
the ground floor of a house to our right. And as we walked on, the ghost<br />
accompanied us from inside all the houses. It passed through all the walls and<br />
always remained at the same height with us. I saw this, though I was blind. <strong>The</strong><br />
path we travel through arcades is fundanlentally just such a ghost wall" on which<br />
doors give way and walls yield. [L2,7]<br />
<strong>The</strong> fignre of wax is properly the setting wherein the appearance of<br />
humanity outdoes itself. In the wax fignre, that is, the surface area, complexion,<br />
and coloration of the human being are all rendered with such perfect and unsurpassable<br />
exactitude that this reproduction of human appearance itself is outdone,<br />
and now the mmmequin incarnates nothing but the hideous, cumring mediation<br />
between costume and viscera. 0 Fashion 0 [L2a,1]<br />
Description of a wax museum as dream house: "Once visitors reached the fmal<br />
landing, they looked around the corner into a large, brightly lit room. <strong>The</strong>re was,<br />
so to say, no one within, though it was filled with princes, crinolines, uniforms, and<br />
giants at the entrance. <strong>The</strong> woman went no further, and her escort paused beside<br />
her, piqued hy a haleful pleasure. <strong>The</strong>y sat down on the steps, and he told her of<br />
the terror he had experienced as a hoy in reading ahout ill-famed castles where no<br />
one lived any longer, but where on stormy nights there were lights hurning at all<br />
the windows. What was going on inside? What gathering was there? Where was<br />
that light coming from? He had dreamed of catching a glimpse of t.his assembly<br />
while hanging from the window ledge, his face pressed against the windowpanes of<br />
the unspeakahle room." Ernst. Bloch, 44Leib und WachsHgur," Frankfurter Zeit<br />
{mg . [L2a,2]<br />
44Numher 125: Castan's maze. At Hrst., world travelers and artists suppose themselves<br />
transported into the forest of columns that is the magnificent. mosque of<br />
Cordova in Spain. As arch succeeds arch in that edifice, one column crowds upon