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<strong>The</strong> fundamental motif of Jug ends til is the transfiguration of infertility. <strong>The</strong> body<br />

is portrayed, preferably, in the forms that precede sexual maturity. (S8a,2]<br />

Lesbian love carries spiritualization forward into the very womb of the woman.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re it raises its lily-banner of "pure love;' which knows no preguancy and no<br />

fantily. (S8a,3]<br />

<strong>The</strong> consciousness of someone prone to spleen furnishes a miniature model of<br />

the world spirit to which the idea of eternal recurrence would have to be ascrihed.<br />

(S8a,4J<br />

"<strong>The</strong>re, man passes through forests of symbols / Which observe him with fanril­<br />

iar eyes." "Correspondances."" It is the flower-gazes of Jugendstil that emerge<br />

here. Jugendstil wins back symhols. <strong>The</strong> word "symbol" is not often found in<br />

Baudelaire. (S8a,5]<br />

<strong>The</strong> development that led Maeterlinck, in the course of a long life, to an extreme

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