The Arcades Project - Operi

Description of the crowd in Baudelaire to be compared with the description in
Poe:
The gutter, dismal bcd, carries along its foulnesses,
Carries, boiling, the secrets of the sewers;
It slaps in corrosive wavcs against the houses,
Rushes on to jaundice and corrupt the river Seine,
Sloshing as high as the knees of' pedestrians.
On the slippery pavements everyone passes brutal and self-absorbed,
Elliowing and spattering us with mud, or thrusting us aside
In their hurry to arrive somewhere.
Everywhere mire and dcluge and opacity of sky:
Dire tahleau such as dark Ezekiel might have dreamt.
Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 1 , p. 211 (Poiimes divers, "Un Jour de
pluie").52
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On the detective novel:
The man who hasn't signed anything, who left no picture,
Who was not there, who said nothing:
How can they catch him?
Erase the traces.
Brecht, Versuche